On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:03 PM, MxW <[email protected]> wrote: > Christian, > I love you right now! Thank you so much. I have fluxbox & XBMC up > and running. Just having trouble with wifi. > Thanks again :) >
:-). Good to know that worked. About the wifi, mine is working fine with kernel 2.6.39 and b43 module. > On Oct 15, 11:15 pm, MxW <[email protected]> wrote: >> Christian, >> Now that I think about it...that might have been along the lines of >> what I had done the one time it booted for me. >> Will try this and report back. >> >> On Oct 15, 11:11 pm, Christian Lyra <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > 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_... >> >> > >http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Install_Gentoo-XBMC_on_Ap... >> >> > > 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: >> >> > > usinghttp://atv-bootloader.googlecode.com/files/recovery-1.0.tar.gz >> > > instad ofhttp://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 -- 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
