On Jan 10, 2013, at 15:39 , martin_05 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anyone done any work on installing headless software versions of Linux on > ATV? Yeah, I've had a really hard time. To the point where I was dropping back to earlier versions of Ubuntu than current (not sure I got all the way back to the ATV doc's Ubuntu 8.05 version) to try to get it to work. It sometimes seemed like I'd get somewhere, and then not really. As I recall, my roadblocks were mostly around issues of getting the (sorry, I've forgotten several of the terms already) secondary bootstrap to actually find and load grub properly. I tried a bunch of different disk configurations and formats. I tried to understand exactly what the scripts were doing when they were trying to locate the grub configuration and tweak them. That wasn't fun - I think I was having a hard time understanding how to get those changes to be permanent. Ubuntu 8.x uses Grub1, but later versions (like 12) use Grub2 which takes a completely different approach to the configuration file. Out of the box, the ATV scripts can't find the configuration for Grub2 (and I'm not positive could parse it either), so the boot ends up failing. > I am interested in the idea of doing this to host an in-house web server. I > don't need any video output as telnet/ssh access from other computers would > be sufficient for administration. I'd be very interested in installing > Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS. This seems completely doable. I just haven't been able to figure out how. -- 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
