Thanks Scott, I will give this a shot and see what I can find for a v1 download. It might be a couple of days before you hear from me on any results.
Thanks again for your help and commitment. Peter On Nov 18, 8:34 am, "Scott D. Davilla" <[email protected]> wrote: > >The problem I have is that I don't have an original image. This comes > >from my not really knowing what I was doing when I first got my ATV > >and being a hack of a hacker to get MythTV on the box. I have gone > >through the "Oops" restore method you have written up but this has > >caused the language lock issue for me. > > >It has been confusing for me since that I actually get the loading of > >ATV (V2.4) all the way to the language it would seem that the restore > >is working. Yet if I try to run the Patchstick I get an error on > >mounting OSBoot (I have used your checks in other areas and don't seem > >to find the issue). Something isn't right but I don't quite know > >what. Perhaps the real restore does not get copied over until after > >the language, and other settings past language, are completed. > > >It is interesting to parse the "download contents" file that you > >provide and see that there is a IR Update Tool installer and update > >URL. I suspect that if I could patch the basic load then I could SSH > >in and make the update that way if needed. > > How about using the 1.0 dmg, this seems to be floating around. For > the mach_kernel.prelink, open the 1.0 dmg and use the one inside the > disk image. This should let you boot and restore to 1.0, then update > using the normal Apple method, once you get to 3.01, all the updates > will be applied. > > This should work if your AppleTV was pre2.2 (out of the box), in > later shipped AppleTVs, Apple used a different wifi card that > triggered a bug in the earlier AppleTV OS. If you run into this bug > (kernel panic), then yank the wifi card and that should let you boot, > there were never any firmware updates to the wifi cards. -- 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
