'Failed while loading series.' Error on Setup Call

[Dave Hatt]

Since creating this thread, I've tried many things but still no success.

First, I tried installing the latest Phillips Oztivo image to the UK TiVo, and whilst this worked well and I was able to complete calls and download data, I couldn't get it into RGB mode. I had to give up on this option as my Digital TV box would not output s-video (and I really wanted Scart RGB anyway).

Now I have tried again, and in the process I've even replaced the harddrive. However I am still getting failures in the first Setup Call screen during the data load process (i.e. after the call completes).

Strangely enough, I have used the exact same procedures several times to get my TiVo working previously, however this time no-go. I am starting to suspect that the size of the Hard Drive (300Gb) might be something to do with it.

I am using a UK Tivo (PVR10UK, with Seagate 300Gb HDD, Cachecard (now using latest drivers) 2.5.5 oztivo image and the following command to restore the image:

mfsrestore -s511 -r4 -xzpi /mnt/c/pvr10uk.255.oztivo_emulator.release1.3beta /dev/hdc

I am attaching a zip file with the log files from the /var/log directory (but I cannot find any tclinet.log file?) I've had a look at the logs, and whilst I can see a quite a few things reported, I can't trace anything back to any actions I should take.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Dave Hatt]

Ok, I've tried a full reinstall, but still the same problem. Here is what I am doing:

1. Deleted all partitions using pdisk
2. Booted from Oztivo image CD.
3. Restored UK image using command:
mfsrestore -s511 -r4 -xzpi /mnt/c/pvr10uk.255.oztivo_emulator.release1.3beta /dev/hdc
4. Put drive in TiVo temporarily to format HDC9
5. Added latest cachecard drivers (have cachecard, but no RAM chip, not that I think this is the problem)
6. Put drive back into TiVo, set up swap drive:
mkswap -v1 /dev/hda8
swapon -a
7. Go through guided setup, configure network settings ,#401 etc
8. Try first call home. Downloads data, indexes and fails after it reaches 100%. Tried a few more times, but no different.

Here are the latest logs.