Help - Stuck in Welcome Screen

[Schumi]

Hi all,

After 1 1/2 years of trouble free tivo with 1.5 NZ image at the beginning of the week I started having some lingering networking issues - it would not connect via telnet occasionally and stopped responding to TWP.
I connected via serial and ran ifconfig to see what the turbonet card was doing and saw that there was no IP address being allodcated (stuck on 127.0.0.1).

So, I thought I would quickly switch to static IP to see if that solved the issue, but that's actually when the real problem started.

I used nic_config_tivo and after setting static IP, subnet mask and gateway I saved and rebooted - and never recovered !

I now do not get past the "Almost there. Just a few minutes more..." screen (which has been there for a couple of hours at times). I have tried to repair by mounting the disk and booting with the 1.5 image disk, then entering the static IP that way with the same result.

Any words of wisdom - I can't connect via serial any longer, not even into boot mode. The driver load page shows some error messages, but they've always been there and I must say as everything ran so trouble free I didn't really pay much attention.

I've got a PC with a Ubuntu installation; my linux has gotten very rusty, but I could probably use it with some guidance. there are a couple of shows on the HD which I would like to rescue, but beyond that I don't mind re-imaging.