Hello, First of all, I want to thank the creator and all the contributors of this project. Very nice work. It is especially complete and well explained.
I tried to install ubuntu on an external flash drive. And here is my problem. I made the usb bootable stick, installed ubuntu on the flash drive, and when I rebooted, it was the appletv OS that started and not ubuntu… I suspect that the installation changed the table partition type, as before the installation, the table partition was gpt, and after it changed to msdos. Here is the info given by parted when I boot using a second flash drive: appl...@appletv:~/parted$ sudo parted -s /dev/sdc unit s print Model: Lexar JD FireFly (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc : 15663104s Taille des secteurs (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition table: msdos Number Begin End Size Type File System Flag 1 40s 69671s 69632s primary hfs+ 2 69672s 14614493s 14544822s primary ext3 boot 3 14614494s 15663070s 1048577s primary linux-swap Is there a way to correct this? I used 2 different flash drives, ubuntu hardy, karmic : same result. I tried to update the boot disk MBR with gptsync, but no success: Current GPT partition table: No GPT partition table present! Current MBR partition table: # A Start LBA End LBA Type 1 40 69671 af Mac OS X HFS+ 2 * 69672 14614493 83 Linux 3 14614494 15663070 82 Linux swap / Solaris Status: No GPT partition table, no need to sync. For now I boot Linux using second 2 GB flash drive with the bootloader that start Linux on the 8GB drive… I also have another question. I may try to install ubuntu on the aTV hard drive resizing the media partition, is it safe or will it happen again? Thank you very much. Denis. -- 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
