Hi Just to say "me too". I did everything using recovery-1.0 (initial boot, partitioning, etc), but could not get it to boot my debian install. I just replaced the /dev/sda2 with recovery-0.6 and my appletv started to boot as it should.
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 1:07 AM, MxW <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > I'm about to rip out my hair on the project. For the past 2-3 weeks > I've been trying to get my ATV to boot Gentoo properly and ONE time I > by some magic of the gods happened to get it running......only to hose > it during an update. So now I am here, seeking your help. > > I have followed basically all of the ATV gentoo install guides but > have been using a hybrid of these two mainly: > > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythFrontend_on_Apple_TV_using_Gentoo > > http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Install_Gentoo-XBMC_on_AppleTV > > For the majority of the process, I use the mythtv guide, replacing the > make.conf, kernel configuration while still using genkernel, and using > recovery 1.0 instead of 0.6 > > I am following the directions word by word with the exception of: > > using http://atv-bootloader.googlecode.com/files/recovery-1.0.tar.gz > instad of http://atv-bootloader.googlecode.com/files/recovery-0.6.tar.gz > > partitioning via parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary ext3 75M 38.9GB > parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary linux-swap 38.9GB 40.0GB > instead of > parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary ext3 75M 16GB > parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary linux-swap 16GB 17GB > > having removed kde and gnome from make.conf > using this thread as a work around for my Glib 2.30 problem (merge > =dev-libs/glib-2.28.8 > emerge pkgconfig > emerge dev-libs/glib) > fixing disappearing eth0 with the help of this thread (su > cd /etc/init.d/ > ln -s net.lo net.eth0 then rc-update add net.eth0 boot) > > > I have tried using gentoo-sources 3.0.6 and 2.6.39-r4 and during boot > after installing all of the fundamentals, the screen just stays at > jumping to kernel. > > Here is my latest grub.conf for gentoo-sources built using genkernel: > > default 0 > timeout 30 > splashimage=(hd0,3)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > title Gentoo Linux 2.6.39-r4 > root (hd0,3) > kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 > real_root=/dev/sda4 udev > initrd /boot/initramfs > > > I've also followed the make && make modules_install method used in the > XBMC guide. I am at a loss here guys. > Thank you! > > -- > 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 -- Christian Lyra PoP-PR/RNP -- 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
