tooshna Wrote:i just dont get it. ive been trying to get this to work for weeks now with no success. here is the code i entered trying to install pins image to the internal atv hard drive [i renamed pins image to just 'atv.img' to save typing errors] - http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/8009/photokm.jpg
please help...
Loads of "sudo not found" then? I saw these errors when my box failed to boot with "waiting for root file system". It hung for a while and then hit a "intrafms" (or something similar) prompt. Is that what's happening with yours?
Would certainly help if you could explain what you've managed to do so far - I saw an earlier post of yours stating that you'd formatted your usb as fat32 and copied the image onto it. That's not going to work unless you restored the image properly instead of just copying and pasting. I don't know how to restore the image to a usb stick on a mac, but I'm sure that's in this thread somewhere....
I also saw an earlier post that your atv was configured to use the external drive as primary. From what I understand, you want to stick the pin's image onto the internal drive.
I think I agree with an earlier reply from Sam that you need to find a way to get the box to boot - the reason for this is that you need your box to at least get as far as having telnet support or ssh support. I would go with Sam's suggestion to build a patchstick in order to enable telnet support. You'll need 2 usb sticks - 1 with pin's image and 1 for the patchstick. There are much more educated people than me floating around so you may need more help from them, but I would at least try using this
http://code.google.com/p/atvusb-creator get your patchstick done. Make sure you read up properly before you try it, Sam clearly said
not to use the patchstick to install any software, just use it to get telnet support.
Once your box has telnet support you'll need to follow this to edit com.apple.Boot.plist:
Point atv-bootloader (on usb drive) to new internal drive install (you might have to change the italicised text depending on what letter your usb drive with pin's image was assigned):
Code:
1. sudo fsck.hfsplus /dev/sd[i]b2[/i]
2. sudo mkdir /media/atvboot
3. sudo mount /dev/sd[i]b2[/i] /media/atvboot
4. sudo nano /media/atvboot/com.apple.Boot.plist
and change "root" to /dev/sda5 (or wherever you installed pin's image to)
Note: I found that the easiest way to find out which letter your usb drives are assigned is to use
- this will spew out loads of information, just look for mention of usb drives, and you should see sdb sdc along with the make/model of each of your drives. I hope that makes sense.
Good luck!