ATV Bootloader with lubuntu 14 beta
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I was thrilled to find out that ubuntu 14 and xbmc 13 are coinciding as far as approximate release dates go and that it appears the xbmcbuntu beta was available. Then I was dissappointed to see it only in 64 bit as that ruled out any hope of running it on my ATV1 m like I so wanted to do and get away from the more irregular builds for ATV1

I then went ande fired up ATV bootloader and installed lubuntu onto it ,

Let me clarify that I typically use the "auto" mode on atvbootloader then create a boot/grub/menu.lst which I copied from a working install only modifying the file to the new uuids

first error is stating that could not create /usr/src/udhcpc "filesystem is read only"

I then manually created the folder

After manually creating that folder I still get a kexec error "invalid option" or "invalid parameter" do not recall exactly which

The odd thing is I tesrted with ubuntu 12 and it works as expected but ubuntu 14 seems to have some other quirk. I have installed ubuntu 14 three times now and can noit repeat the success I have with ubuntu 12

Any ideas?
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Before you get too far with this, XBMC v14 and on will be dropping Broadcom Crystal HD support and you'll need either OpenELEC or Crystalbuntu to get it, or compile a special version. In other words, sticking with irregular builds is your best bet for XBMC/ATV1 support. Even now, for v13, I hear that the older linux kernel in Crystalbuntu has much better performance than newer kernels.
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