Hi Robert, I am just grabbing some time quickly on my laptop before my wife takes over again. Sorry I haven't replied to your earlier port.
I have installed it from a flash card and I hope the following is what you are trying to figure out (namely that I have understood your request). You will need to either reformat the patchstick partition or resize it and then create a third partition. I did the latter and had to do it from a linux machine (VirtualBox with Ubuntu installed worked perfectly for this and more operations) since it needs to be loaded on an ext2 or 3 formatted partition. With the partition in place simply take the contents of the Mythbuntu iso and copy it onto the new partition. With this approach I can boot into Ubuntu and run the install. To reboot into the new partition you can use the following kernel lines (you may need to adjust the sdb3 to suit). mkdir /install mount /dev/sdb3 /install kexec --load /install/casper/vmlinuz --initrd=/install/casper/ initrd.lz --command-line="preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/ casper/initrd.lz nosplash vesa video=vesafb" kexec -e Hope this helps. On Jan 8, 5:10 pm, Robert Baptista <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed Ubuntu or derivative 9.10 from the > alternate iso/cd to the ATV? I am trying to install it to a secondary > flashdrive on one of my Atv's for testing. The install completes with > no problem but after the reboot the atv-bootloader partition on the > flashdrive is read-only and thus cannot not mount and kexec the new > install. > > This procedure worked fine for me using 9.04 and the standard > mythbuntu iso. So I'm not sure if it's something with the alternate > install or 9.10 and grub2. I'm installing grub to the MBR of the flash > drive as I believe the standard installer does. I've created a custom > menu.lst for the patchstick parser, but even trying to mount manually > I cannot since the fs is read only. > > When I run gptsync it does say 'Status: Analysis inconclusive, will > not touch this disk' so I'm thinking it's hosing the partitions. > > Any ideas? > Robert
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