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Quote: Originally Posted by ScanMan Reboot loops often occur from an iptables screwup. Capturing the boot messages at the console is recommended and often simplifies troubleshooting. You might be able to snarf it by mounting the /var (9th) partition and looking at /var/log/kernel but sometimes not; there is no substitute for viewing the in-flight boot messages. Thanks for the response. I'll have to give that a try. On a side note, I was...

Quote: Originally Posted by garrubal Sorry for the double post, but now I have a new problem. I went through the entire procedure up until returning the tivo hard drive to the tivo. The tivo is now cycling in the welcome power up screen. I'll need to take out the hard drive and revert the changes. Hopefully it'll return to normal. More disconcerting is that afterwards, I placed the original 160 GB hard drive that came with the tivo....

Capturing the serial console. PlainBill

On a side note, I was able to get a non-hacked tivo hard drive and the tivo works fine. Now it's back to trying to fix those iptables on the other hard drive. It was a huge relief that I didn't screw up the tivo itself.