I have inherited a tivo from a friend going o/s. After getting cabling sorted out, and guide data up to date I needed to change the IR, as he had Optus in Sydney, and I’m on Foxtel Digital. So followed howto’s to change the boot parameters to get into maint mode / guided setup. Here’s my goof:

I put a typo into the parms, specifically I left off the boot= after the first quote, i.e. I entered:
bootpage -P '/dev/hda4 GS=1…. Etc

Following this I rebooted and sat on the welcome screen for about 2 minutes before thinking ‘Oh S**t’… This was after being overly cautious checking every character typed so I feel pretty foolish.

So after having make the wife ecstatic being able to manually record for the last week I now face being in the doghouse with a non-functional tivo.

I imagine the only solution will be to take the drive out and place into the PC, but my question is then whether it will be possible to ‘patch’ the drive without losing the contents (and marriage :-| )

Any help gratefully received

Tim.