Thanks for the tip. All my other mythtv kit is running on 8.04 at the mo, so that's not a problem. I actually went with 9.04 because that's what I run on my desktop/laptop, and it had the nice "USB Startup Disk Creator" option. I figured Mythbuntu 9.04 would probably work best with this wizard.
I'm not so sure that's the problem I have right now though. It does the install. The problem seems to be that the USB drive isn't discovering/attempting to boot Mythuntu from /dev/sda5. It gets stuck at a page of text, but like I say, I can see very little of it on the TV. There are errors about read only file system, is this the problem I wonder? I'll give it another go with 8.04 though... Paul. On Sep 16, 9:58 pm, "Scott D. Davilla" <[email protected]> wrote: > >I'm trying for a dual boot setup. My steps: > >* Create atv-bootloader USB drive > >* Add a ext3 partition to the atv-bootloader USB drive (/dev/sdb2), > >use it to backup the Recovery partition, as per documented backup > >procedure. Copy this backup to my computer. > >* Use parted to shrink atv /dev/sda4 (Media) to about 14GB, create / > >dev/sda5 for linux. > >* Build a bootable USB install disk from Mythbuntu 9.04 live CD iso > >using USB Startup Disk Creator in ubuntu 9.04. > >* Copy these files to my atv-bootloader USB drive (/dev/sdb2) > >* Boot AppleTV to the atv-bootloader, telnet in, kick start mythbuntu > >with kexec, and install Mythbuntu as per documented procedure to /dev/ > >sda5. > >Reboot AppleTV to native OS, go through factory restore process. > >Reboot AppleTV to native OS, test working. Go to Settings>About, > >capacity says 13.76. > >Reboot AppleTV with atv-bootloader, with <string>atv-boot=auto > >video=vesafb</string> > >It boots to the stick, but it doesn't find/boot my Mythbuntu > >installation. It's pretty hard to see whats going on as it's all off > >the left of the screen, and I don't know what it should look like > >anyway. > > >Any ideas how to troubleshoot/fix this? Can I use atv-boot=manual and > >if so, how? > > Mythbuntu 9.04 is troublesome, they removed vesafb for some obscure > reason. you might try video=efifb, it's similar to vesafb in setup. > Otherwise, back to Mythbuntu 8.04 which is still my favorite ubuntu > distro version (8.04). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
