[RELEASE] CrystalHD Linux distributions for Apple TV with UI installer (Win, Linux)

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- pmcd - 2011-04-03 01:07

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:No. That won't work, sorry. You need to make sure that /dev/sda is the device you want to image and /dev/sdb is source. But why you are doing it this way I don't know? Just restore to the USB HDD within the Installer directly rather than going Installer > Flash Drive > USB HDD

Hope this clears stuff up

Sorry to be picky here, but if you do Installer--> USB HDD you end up with a 4 gig hard drive which does not occupy the whole drive ( unless one manually uses parted, etc... and that does work fine). What I am saying is that installer-->USB HDD processes a 4 gig hard drive which works perfectly well but the expansion to the whole drive doesn't happen automatically. At least it doesn't for me. It isn't hard to expand the 3rd partition to fill out the drive but the script doesn't seem to do it unless you are saying it will do it once that HDD boots up the ATV.

The reason I am going the external route is just to make sure things work fine before wiping the internal drive. So far, using an external USB HHD ( actually an SSD) the performance of your install is fantastic at 1080p. It's given my ATV a whole new character. However I did have to manually resize the 3rd partition Smile

. Certainly well worth a donation ... ( forthcoming).

philip

- defiler - 2011-04-03 01:59

Hey, Sam. Glad to see your clock is still about 2 days ahead of mine. You released your original Ubuntu image 2 days before I resolved to set into doing my own, and here you are again two days before I decide I really need to reinstall!

Well, glad as I am to see you've got this out the door, I'm also having the flashing question mark issue. It's sitting there just now with the LED on the front flashing amber/off/white/off...

Tried removing the USB stick before and after the restart. Tried SSHing into it and halting the box before removing the USB stick. Nothing there seems to be working. I've tried installing it a half-dozen times, and also tried creating the patchstick twice. The USB stick is 16GB, so no problems there...

Any good ideas? Right now I'm creating the live patchstick to get my ATV running again. I may just get lazy and DD it onto the internal drive. And if I can be bothered I'll expand the partition table from there. (I don't need the space - my database is now on mysql, and my thumbnails are on an NFS export, both on my server...)

Update:

I've got it running directly from the USB drive. I may just transfer that across to the HDD rather than doing the whole reinstall again and again... However I can't get BluRay rips with VC-1 encoding to work. It just flickers between the menu screen and a black screen. Umm - help?!

Another update:

I see this problem has arisen with someone using a CF card. I'm using the stock 40GB drive that shipped with the ATV.

- steve1977 - 2011-04-03 06:43

pmcd Wrote:Sorry to be picky here, but if you do Installer--> USB HDD you end up with a 4 gig hard drive which does not occupy the whole drive ( unless one manually uses parted, etc... and that does work fine). What I am saying is that installer-->USB HDD processes a 4 gig hard drive which works perfectly well but the expansion to the whole drive doesn't happen automatically.

Good to know. Can you please help post a step-by-step guide how to manually increase the internal used HD from 4 to 40GB. Thanks, very much appreciated!

- steve1977 - 2011-04-03 06:49

I just completed installing with the installer directly to HD. After unplugging the USB, it continued installing and it looked that everything played out. However, I only receive a back-screen in the end. My guess is that this is due to me not using HDMI-video, but Component. Any thoughts how I can get it working with Component-out? Thanks!

- pmcd - 2011-04-03 08:23

steve1977 Wrote:Good to know. Can you please help post a step-by-step guide how to manually increase the internal used HD from 4 to 40GB. Thanks, very much appreciated!

Sam's process will produce an install that uses the whole internal drive. It does the expansion. I am talking about something different, which is to keep osx on the internal and produce a usb HDD which will boot into xbmc. It is this latter process which appears to require a manual expansion. The procedure I used is outlined in another post of mine not in this thread.

philip

Using Component Output - defiler - 2011-04-03 11:27

steve1977 Wrote:Any thoughts how I can get it working with Component-out? Thanks!

I'm sure I saw this mentioned earlier on the thread, but I can't find it so here's the bottom line. You need to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I'm using a component screen at 720p, and this is the "Screen" section of my xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "Screen"

    Identifier     "Screen0"

    Device         "Device0"

    Monitor        "Monitor0"

    Option         "UseDisplayDevice" "TV"

    Option         "TVOutFormat" "COMPONENT"

    Option         "TVStandard" "HD720p"

    Option         "TVOverScan" "0.80

    DefaultDepth    24

    Option         "NoLogo" "True"

    SubSection     "Display"

        Modes      "1920x1080" "1280x720" "1024x768" "720x480" "800x600" "640x480"

        Depth       24

    EndSubSection

EndSection

Section "Extensions"

    Option         "Composite" "Disable"

EndSection

Tweak the TVStandard and Modes to suit, but I've not deviated from this so I can assure you that it works.

- fodos - 2011-04-03 11:33

bass63 Wrote:It is a known bug of HDMI handshake with ancient nVidia drivers used in the image.
...
But there's a quick and dirty temporary solution to a problem - just turn your TV off and on, or replug HDMI cable every time you got that black screen. Changing inputs works too on some TVs. System is not crashing, just freezing when changing refresh rates.

Yes, the TV turning off and on works for me too, thanks! Not nice but effective solution.

- steve1977 - 2011-04-03 13:48

defiler Wrote:I'm sure I saw this mentioned earlier on the thread, but I can't find it so here's the bottom line.

Thanks for your help. You are right, it has been covered in one thread and I even used it earlier to tweak my settings. Just couldnt find it anymore. Now, it is working!!!

One very stupid question: can someone remind what the code is to set the ATV IP to a fixed IP?

Thanks a ton in advance!!!

- thermobaric - 2011-04-03 13:59

Sam, thank you.

- chris_b - 2011-04-03 16:35

steve1977 Wrote:One very stupid question: can someone remind what the code is to set the ATV IP to a fixed IP?

This is something you will need to set in your router. Somewhere in your router's configuration menus there should be an option to assign static IP's to your devices. You just need to identify your ATV, probably by MAC address.