I recently moved my Ubuntu install from a USB hard drive over to the
Apple TV internal drive. All that was involved with this was..

Boot AppleTV to atv-bootloader
Load Ubuntu live cd
Open a terminal, remove and resize partitions on the atv
Copy the / directory (excluding a few folders) from my USB drive over
to atv newly created partition
Run grub command from command line to install grub to atv hard drive
Obtain UUID of new partiton through blkid command
Modify /boot/grub/menu.lst with new UUID
Modify /etc/fstab file with new UUID

Reboot!

This got me thinking, all of the partitioning can be done directly via
the command line on the atv-bootloader without loading the linux live
cd. If there was a way for me to use the GRUB command to install grub,
as well as discover the UUID of the new partitions, there would be no
need to even boot to the linux live cd.

I plan on modifying a few atv's, and it would save a lot of time, if
all I need to do was plug in USB key, atv-bootloader boots, shell
script is run that preforms the steps above then the machine is
rebooted.

This would be an excellent plug and play way to modify a number of
atv's very quickly!

So is there any way to install GRUB and discover UUID's via atv-
bootloader? Would it be possible to modify atv-bootloader to include
these commands?
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