Sam.Nazarko Wrote:Seems parted doesn't recognise /dev/sda. What is the output of sudo fdisk -l (I know it doesn't support GPT but will show partitions)

Riderzzz Wrote:Just put the image on a 4 GB (or bigger) usb-stick. thats it, no need for anything else

Look at first post in here.

matthoffman Wrote:I found out something very interested after I DD'd pins image to my appleTV HDD and expanded it to the full 40gb.

I was having all kinds of stability issues using xbmc beta 4 and latest crystalHD drivers. Everything worked great on the thumb drive but after the HDD was imaged it was very unstable. Well it turns out the Swap partition was not enabled. So anybody that is putting the 4GB image on HDD and use parted to expand, make sure your Swap Partition is functioning. XBMC seems to run out of memory quickly with crystalHD and ubuntu will kill it because of having no more ram. I verified this by checking my syslog after XBMC for no reason just killed its self and restarted with no issues showing up in xbmc logs. Just thought I would through this out there for anybody having issues running expanded image on internel HDD. After I enabled Swap/rebooted all my stability issues have appeared to go away.

kkillebrew Wrote:I adjusted FSTAB to mount /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda4 (swap) eliminating the UUID method and now everything is perfect.

kkillebrew Wrote:[


I had no problem personally, but I will make the future releases 3.5GB or so and then it will fit comfortably onto any 4gb USB

Quote:Hi Sam - I've found a way to get most any 4GB USB to work that I have not seen posted here. Using USBit under windows just click the "truncate oversized images in device mode..." option and restore the image. With both yours and pin's image it will end up truncating the swap file only and you can use parted 1.8.8 to correct the pointers, delete and then recreate the swap file to a size that fits. I've seen no performance difference with this method vs. using an 8GB stick and the original swap size.

matthoffman Wrote:I found out something very interested after I DD'd pins image to my appleTV HDD and expanded it to the full 40gb.

I was having all kinds of stability issues using xbmc beta 4 and latest crystalHD drivers. Everything worked great on the thumb drive but after the HDD was imaged it was very unstable. Well it turns out the Swap partition was not enabled. So anybody that is putting the 4GB image on HDD and use parted to expand, make sure your Swap Partition is functioning. XBMC seems to run out of memory quickly with crystalHD and ubuntu will kill it because of having no more ram. I verified this by checking my syslog after XBMC for no reason just killed its self and restarted with no issues showing up in xbmc logs. Just thought I would through this out there for anybody having issues running expanded image on internel HDD. After I enabled Swap/rebooted all my stability issues have appeared to go away.

generikb Wrote:Hi Sam! Here's what it gives me:

Code:

xbmc@atv:~$ sudo fdisk -l

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn                                                                                                                               't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn                                                                                                                               't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sdb: 4100 MB, 4100980736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 498 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1         488     3915775+  ee  EFI GPT
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(0, 0, 1) logical=(0, 0, 2)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(487, 125, 22)

mad2030 Wrote:Hello,
same problem here. Please can you explain how? (For linux newbies)

TIA

Mad2010

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:It's blank then. sudo parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary HFS 40s 69671s should work. Have you got HFS Tools and patched parted like I said? This is a prerequisite.

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:parted --version output please