Peter/Darren,

Thank you both greatly. I was able to resolve things with the bootmenu.... I had already wasted a lot of time with the drive pulled trying to boot up PC from seemingly non-functional tivo image boot CD's...

I will probably do some searching/reading on the tivoweb path. Initially I look at it and while I connect OK through serial, it seems I have no IP connectivity ?? I am using hyperterm from Win98 on an old laptop direct over serial Com1, so unsure if that's an issue ?? I will search the FAQs but any immediate tips you know would help.

I did in a past life (last year) try to get networking over serial to XP going, but was snookered by NAT/routing/ADSL issues. I'm a long term IT guy but I remember at the time feeling like a right royal dinasour for the first time ;-)

Thanks again for the immediate spot on help !!

Regards,
Tim.