Hmmm, very interesting thought. A small partition would be basically a Dual Boot capability. How to make this work might be beyond my skill set at this time but I am willing to try things out with enough pointers or knowledge base to run from.
On Jan 4, 8:40 pm, jeffphil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> there has to be a way to tell the kernel which partition to boot from and > >> then be able and change it later. > > It's telling the boot loader which partition to use to find the > kernel. Semantics. :) > > Yes, can set the boot partition using parted: > > parted -s /dev/sda set ## boot on > > Where ## is the partition number. Not sure if it's possible to set > this flag on the > AppleTV side to switch to booting Linux partition. Perhaps rEFIt? > > Another option may be to have a small boot partition with same files > as the pen drive, that > then has a boot menu that kexec's to your linux or chainloads into > AppleTV. Could probably > even add some rudimentary lirc support to be able to change the option > using a remote. -- 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
