>is there a way to use the atv bootloader to show some kind of boot >menu that allows users to select either the original AppleTV OS X (on >OSBoot) or Leopard (eg. on Media)? > >I have a runing Leopard on my Media partition, but I can only boot it >with a script on the regular ATV OSX (bless -nextonly) or bless it to >always boot Leopard. To boot back into ATV OSX I have to bless this >install again ... not very comfortable ...
Not possible with the current atv-bootloader. You might take a look at http://www.solemnwarning.net/kexec-loader/, it's similar technology (uses kexec to launch kernels). It would need some work to integrate with atv-bootloader. Remember, as with all OSX boxes, the AppleTV uses EFI and not BIOS but there is no BIOS compatibility later present in the EFI so booting with grub or any other bootloader that expects a BIOS will not work. Also the various EFI replacements will not work because the AppleTV EFI will only hand off to the specific AppleTV boot.efi. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
