Upgrade 200GB to 1TB fails

[lloyd]

I'm trying to upgrade from my Thompson PVR-10UK from 200GB to 1TB, as the 200GB Seagate is failing, but I'm struggling to upgrade and keep my recordings.

Purchased WD Caviar Green 1TB, and an IDE/Sata convertor.

Downloaded MFSLive 1.4.

If I backup without keeping the recordings backup -qso -/dev/hdc | restore -s500 -nxzpi - /dev/hdb this starts to boot, loads cachecard etc., so I know the IDE/Sata adaptor is good. (Additional reading suggests I should have used the -l 32 option, which I will do next time if I use this method.)

If I try and keep recordings, the Tivo sticks as Powering Up. I have tried with and without extending the paritions:

backup -qaTo -/dev/hdc | restore -s500 -zpi - /dev/hdb (had planned to extend with mfsadd)
backup -qaTo -/dev/hdc | restore -s500 -xzpi - /dev/hdb

Not only will it not boot in this configure, but mfs info /dev/hdb reports volume header corrupt, but pdisk -l /dev/hdb returns a partition table ???

Before I completely give up on keeping recordings, can anyone offer any advice? Also, I am a little confused with the -n option. As I already have a LBA48 kernel on my 200GB source, should I use it or not?

Thanks to anyone who can help,

Lloyd

[lloyd]

Sorted it myself in the end. The problem seems to be because the partitions are re-organised, putting the boot partition beyond the reach of the bootloader. Documented here:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=452967

[ciper]

It was the P that was getting you. Doing a restore without -p lays the partitions in numerical order. With a P it tries to place the OS and APP partitions in the middle with media on either end.