[ATV1] HOW-TO install Sam's image to internal Apple TV harddrive

feikenberg Wrote:Are you using a 4 GB stick? If yes, try a bigger one.

Using 16GB stick

It does boot, and seems to go through the Linux motions fine, for a while...

I see "by Sam Nazarko" and all that jazz.

My software version is 1.0.

Does that matter?

@waldo22

http://download.stmlabs.com/atv-images/u...ardy/core/

Changed the project URL. The images here are updated.

Metsadah Wrote:

Code:

sudo parted
print all

#I got a warning with the question to fix the partion table here, instead of later according to other guides. I just went ahead and fixed it.

Just so no one else does the stupid thing I did, I didn't read the parted prompts carefully enough. There were TWO of them.

One asked me if I wanted to move the GPT table to the front of the drive, and the SECOND asked if I wanted to "fix" the drive so that it took up the entire drive space.

I said "fix" without thinking.

What I actually did was make my 4096MB drive into a 8GB drive, when we set the internal hard drive to 4096 MB in the first step.

This made it too small to accept the clone from the USB disk, and I had to start all over.

Stoopid me.

-Wes

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:@waldo22

http://download.stmlabs.com/atv-images/u...ardy/core/

Changed the project URL. The images here are updated.

Much appreciated Sam, everything went well with this one...

-Wes

Quote:

Code:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

...change /dev/sdbX to /dev/sdaX (4 times in the file, 2 are only comments though), Just change the b to an a, leave the number the same.

I know jack about Linux, so I may be wrong, but I think if you're going to be re-sizing your internal drive to use the whole thing:

you have to reboot
THEN remove the ext3 partition on the internal drive
THEN edit fstab and
THEN copy the partition from sdb (the USB stick) to sda (the internal drive)

Otherwise when you reboot, you end up booting from the internal drive and you can't delete the partition...

Unless I'm wrong. And I've been wrong before.

-Wes

Well, everything seems to have installed just fine - Thanks!

After the ATV boots, I end up with just a blank screen.

This is using both Component and HDMI.

I can SSH in and everything looks fine.

XBMC.bin is running, humming along at 5-7% cpu.

Is there anything special that I forgot to do?

waldo22 Wrote:After the ATV boots, I end up with just a blank screen.

2 reboots (sudo reboot) after un-plugging Component cables seems to have solved the problem.

Is having both simultaneously connected a no-no?

-Wes

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:@waldo22

http://download.stmlabs.com/atv-images/u...ardy/core/

Changed the project URL. The images here are updated.

Hi Sam,

The dates on the images look recent. Are these images newer that what everyone else's using or did you just upload the same image recently?

K.

Thanks so much for all the help in this thread, everything worked great.

Just so everyone knows, the reason I thought it wasn't working at first was that about every 2nd or 3rd boot the boot-up process fails trying to connect to svn.stmlabs.com.

It appears to be a DNS error, but I'm not sure.

I just SSH in and do "sudo reboot" and it comes back up fine.

-Wes