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Salvaging a Tivo HD

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Hello experts, I recently cut the cords for Dish, and went OTA. Then I missed DVR, and bought a used Tivo HD (TCD652160) on craigslist. Seller said it was working fine until he tried factory reset, and was stuck in Few More minutes screen. I removed the harddisk, and ran WD diagnostics. It initially said too many bad sectors, and after two write all zeros, now drive is good.

I downloaded a Tivo image from this forum (Need an image? Don't PM me. thread, unable to provide link, post#723) and restored to the disk using winmfs. Now Tivo just does a Powering up, and reboots after few seconds. It does not seem to understand any kickstart codes. (or at least no change in display via HDMI)

So now my question is does the TiVo image contains the bootpage and kernel or do I need to restore them separately? If separately, where can I find kernel image?

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