vajonam Wrote:have you been able to get the usplash working? are there issues using vesafb and usplash

again thanks for putting all this info together in your various blogs and wiki articles!

TeknoJnky Wrote:I followed this link below, except using parted instead of fdisk, and it worked fine for me.


- create the bootstick image and boot up
- install and build parted 1.8.8, make sure to edit install_parted.sh and added the cflags
http://code.google.com/p/atv-bootloader/wiki/InstallParted
- install the image to the hardrive via dd. I had to mount an NFS share that held the .img file on the network and used DD across the network to atv internal drive, while booted with same image on the patchstick.
- familarize yourself with http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions_p2 and http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_chapter/parted_2.html
- fsck -n /dev/sda2
- tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda2
- parted /dev/sda print
- parted /dev/sda rm 3
- parted /dev/sda rm 2
- parted /dev/sda mkpart primary 35.7M 40000M
- parted /dev/sda mkpartfs primary linux-swap 40000M 40500M
- parted /dev/sda mkpartfs primary ext3 40500M -0
- e2fsck -f /dev/sda2
- resize2fs /dev/sda2
- tune2fs -j /dev/sda2
- reboot

this will give you a 40g root partition and an ext3 partition on /sda4 you can mount as whatever once your booted.

davilla Wrote:This looks like a mix of things. Sam's link is in reference to resizing the normal Media partition to make room for Linux. This would be for an install that retains the original four AppleTV partitions.

Your partition table looks like a dd of the USB flash image onto the internal disk.

vinnieb Wrote:Hey Davilla, what's the "turbo_atv_enabler.bin" in your download section and where does it live?

Thanks!

jodeman Wrote:I've tried this, and I get as far as

Code:

- fsck -n /dev/sda2

Then, it gives this error:

Code:

sudo fsck -n /dev/sda2
fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...
fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda2

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

I ran - parted /dev/sda print and got this:

Code:

Model: ATA FUJITSU MHW2040A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                  Flags  
1      20.5kB  210MB   210MB   fat32        EFI System Partition  boot  
2      210MB   236MB   26.1MB  hfs+         Recovery              atvrecv
3      236MB   2736MB  2500MB  ext3                                      
4      2736MB  3248MB  512MB   linux-swap

So, I thought maybe I should be replacing 2 with 3 in your instructions, but that gave the same error.

Is there another step I'm missing?

davilla Wrote:"fsck.hfsplus /dev/sda2" but that's not your problem.

delete linux-swap, expand ext3 leaving room for swap. then make a swap.
you will have to calculate the sector counts needed. I run parted in block mode to see the block count instead of MBs.

TeknoJnky Wrote:updated my post to help clarify

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=600463&postcount=982