Hi all First of all, thanks for all your work :) I've been able to install a Debian Lenny on a USB stick, so that I can do whatever pleases me without touching the internal HDD I have a question, though, everything seems to be really slow and I'm not sure if it's the ATV hardware that don't allow more speed and responsiveness or if I'm missing something. Here's the output of parted :
Model: USB Flash Memory (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 8011MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 20,5kB 210MB 210MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot 2 210MB 236MB 26,1MB hfs+ Recovery 3 236MB 6236MB 6000MB ext2 PATCHSTICK boot 4 6236MB 8011MB 1775MB linux-swap PATCHSTICK is my root fs where debian is installed. I was wondering if it was the read/write speed from USB, but hdparm gives me : appl...@appletv:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 1110 MB in 2.00 seconds = 555.14 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 24 MB in 3.22 seconds = 7.45 MB/sec Still less than a HDD but seems like it should be ok... Finally, system monitor shows CPU at 13%, Memory at 32%, swap at 4%... so it doesn't look like I have some process clogging things up. When opening Epiphany (for example), CPU / memory / swap usage barely goes higher, but it just lags... For info, here's how I proceeded : - Use ATV-Usb creator to make the patchstick - Boot computer with the Debian NetInstall CD & the usb stick inserted - Repartition patchstick from Debian install to resize "PATCHSTICK" (a bit smaller to get more swap), use /dev/sda3 as ext2 filesystem mounted as / and /dev/sda4 as swap - Install base system only - Update boot_linux.sh on Recovery to look like : #!/bin/bash mkdir -p /debian mount /dev/sdb3 /debian kexec --load /debian/vmlinuz --initrd=/debian/initrd.img --command-line="initrd=initrd.img rootdelay=8 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb" kexec -e - Boot ATV with USB Stick and USB keyboard to install ssh, nvidia and broadcom restricted drivers - Finish install with sudo apt-get install gnome Anyone got an idea ? cheers and merry christmas -- 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
