When I did my rebuild I had to completely recreate my partitions since the recovery partion had been wiped out on the first hack I did. I then used Scott's manual recoveryethod that you can find on this site (I would give you a link but I am working from my iPhone while at work) to setup the Recovery partition with version 1 followed by a factory reset.
I doubt that it is a flash memory failure as the memory needed vs what is installed usually allows for sector failures. I also doubt that it is a power issue as there really isn't much power required for this type of opperation (far less than running the hard drive or USB stick. I would be more prone to getting the ATV v1 image which can still be found on the net but is in the other units you own and rebuilding using Scott's instructions. I would not do a DD recovery from the other units just to be safe for now. The fact that you are able to recover to V1 with remote support is what makes all of this odd. Perhaps try a restore of v1 and then do a couple more restores of v1 just using the apple interface. This would be to see if the initial restore didn't completely work. On Jan 28, 8:27 am, anthonyseven <[email protected]> wrote: > I appreciate your response. If nothing else, you are helping me to > gather my thoughts. > > I have a couple of additional theories, but they assume that the IR > firmware update is indeed where its getting stuck. You mentioned one > of these, that the firmware update partially took hold and that it is > stuck there. Doing a little brainstorming, these are the ideas I come > up with: > > 1. Firmware update partially took and is stuck. > > 2. Flash EEPROM memory has failed in way that it can't be written. > (This assumes it uses flash memory. I don't actually know what kind of > memory is used for the IR firmware. > > 3. Power supply has gone flakey-- it can power the AppleTV but can't > provide the extra oomph needed to write the flash memory for IR > firmware update. > > 4. Software incompatibiliy-- Perhaps the recovery partition isn't > fully interchangeable between all AppleTV's? I lost the recovery > partition on this unit, so I am using a copy of the partition from > other units. Maybe the IR update would take if I could find an image > of the recovery partition that is compatible with this particular ATV. > > Hopefully someone knows more about this than I do and will say > "There's yer problem..." > > Tony -- 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
