The boot process on a mk1 AppleTV is completely different from all the other HTPC devices that you can install OpenELEC onto. This isn't clear in the current set of website instructions for installing OE. Installing from Windows is convoluted as the OS has no native support for the HFS+ or ext3/4 partitions that you need to create. Windows fundamentally sucks at doing anything with HFS+ and EXT3/4 partitions and you need to create both. IMHO the easiest method of doing things from Windows is to create an Ubuntu Live image on CD (the default) or USB stick using a tool like 'unetbootin' and then boot your PC into Linux where you can use the Linux installer script that I wrote.

Or, if you have vmware Workstaition (or the free Sun virtualbox equivalent) around, run a local Ubuntu VM - always handy for fixing USB sticks and that kind of thing that Windows is also really bad at doing. The older patchstick methods aren't really valid as between RC5 and RC7 we switched from Dropbear ssh to OpenSSH and this change requires a Unix filesystem for your STORAGE partition.

The patchstick tools create the required HFS+ partitions to boot an ATV and XBMC will run, but SSH will fail to start on a FAT partition so you're locked out. It's fixable, but only when you enable debugging and access via a local console and USB keyboard (which only works on the nouveau driver builds). There's just too much pain and jumping through hoops, even when you're *really* familiar with what you're doing.

Lack of Wiki and FAQ around. I see the 1.0.2 ATV tar in Download section. Which gives a stick, which doesn't boot for me (today i recieved factory reseted ATV 3.0.2). What version is that image (openELEChdd.7z) above? 0.99.5, XBMC 10.1 (4 April 2011) 2. Will it be able to autoupdate to 1.0.2 after install?

ATV USB Creator. Next, set the USB. Krypted April 23rd, 2010. Posted In: Home Automation, Mac OS X. Tags: Apple TV, AppleTV.

Yet 1.0.2 is corrupt( When set OpenELEC settings updates to auto, it is autodownloaded in 5-10 minutes and asks reboot. After reboot it loads+reboots and then says 'Starting OpenElec (.linux_vesafb: 1280x720x32.) and hangs on the pink screen permamently (4+ hours, I tested/reflashed twice).

Any manual SSH update FAQ appreciated. What was the 1.0.2 stick-creator in download section for? Should it worked?

Should I press minus+menu to boot USB and reflash the hdd? Correct USB-stick boots itself. Last question: 5. How to flash ATV 3.0.2 back factory after smth goes wrong?) Thanks in advance. As per several sticky threads in this section of the forum the official 1.02 image (no matter where you get it from or how you create an installer stick) is broken due to a kernel misconfiguration that means there is no X11 graphics driver; hence the vesafb message is left on screen (it's not stuck at that point, but Xorg doesn't start so nothing refreshes/overwrites the screen after that message is shown).

Mahiya Annie Original Mp3 Download more. I will be posting a development image this evening or tomorrow morning which is equivalent to a 1.02a (1.02 fixed) image if I get a chance to complete testing. This will be dev image so it will ignore auto-update, but once OpenELEC 2.0 is available in the near future the manual update process can be used to upgrade, and once you're back on a 'release' version auto-update will work normally. The create_installstick.bat script in the.tar.bz2 image is for installing OE on normal HTPC boxes, as discussed ^above^ the AppleTV has a completely different boot process and cannot us this. The easiest way to install would be to boot into an Ubuntu VM or LiveCD to use the Linux installer script that I created (it's a sticky thread in the AppleTV section). If you need to restore the original AppleTV software the best option is to remove the internal drive and find someone with a Mac so you can run tool which does everything for you.

All upgrade and downgrade actions are done by placing the appropriate SYSTEM/KERNEL files in the /storage/.update/ folder which is mapped to the SAMBA share OPENELEC Update I already have an 'installstick' creator script for Linux that works well, so before 2.0 ships we'll hack something together that uses the existing patchstick tools to create something you can boot from that will nuke the internal drive and install OE to the internal drive. It should be possible to create a restorestick the same way. It's all a question of time and shaking the cold/flu I have right now so my brain can thunk properly.

Ok, after quite a few days of intensive reading in these fora I think here is where I can make a small contribution Currently I'm using a Crystalbuntu setup on my ATV1. I use this to test the ForTheRecord PVR Add-on for XBMC I'm maintaining / developing on the ATV1. Installing Crystalbuntu can be done by booting from a USB stick created on Windows or Linux. However, to restore the original ATV1 software, a bootable USB stick can be created using the same Windows software. The USB creation software for Windows can be found here: The complete source code for this program is open source and can be found here: You need a 2GB stick! From inspection of the sources I can see it boots a minimal kernel, wgets an image from mesu.apple.com, does a lot of partitioning, efi and other magic and presto: one restored ATV.

Being a paranoid developer after so many years, that is exactly what I'm going to do as my first OpenElec/ATV exercise: install OpenElec and restore using this method. When this succeeds I'll install OpenElec again. Knowing that I have a nice foundation to fall back to when I mess up with my code Cheers, Fred. The crystalbuntu crew always seem to require some immense download to do anything.

I still have never successfully installed sam's monster image files onto a drive and then successfully booted into it, it always craps out on something when dd'ing the image and things don't boot right. There will be an OpenELEC created solution for all this by the time 2.0 comes out. Right now I have a bootstick in the works that restores the partitions much like the crystalbuntu one, only without the silly huge download If you don't need HDMI audio, use the nvidia builds I've been posting, they're miles better than the nouveau ones. Is 1.02 with some adjustments to make nouveau work. It works okay for me; a little jerky in the GUI when using a USB stick but I guess that's just the USB stick not being the quickest.

This is a development image so it will not auto-update to anything newer unless you update to a proper 'release' version of OE again. Feedback is very definitely requested. If this is okay, we'll repack it and push it out as a 1.0.3 update For bonus credit; if you create /storage/.config/autostart.sh and put the following line in it you should (inshallah) be disabling scaling mode during boot and this allows the nouveau driver to use XBMC's settings >video >playback >'Sync playback to display setting'.which gives 24/25/30/50/60p playback as long as the driver is correctly detecting the required modes from your TV set. The script is run before Xorg in the startup sequence so sleeps for 10 seconds to allow it to be started. You will see the XBMC homescreen refresh once the change has been made.

Its not booting patchstick on bootup even with a approved USB stick. Transcend JetFlash V30 - 2 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive TS2GJFV30 (Black) Ive tried the 3.0.1 dmg and 3.0.2 dmg but it wont boot the hack? Ive done as instructed: same info from many guides.

Ive hacked psp, xbox, ps1 and others in past so steps are similar to other devices. I also tried holding down MENU and - to boot recovery.

I still get normal apple load up. Any ideas on my next step. I hate to pay aflash 40 bucks for something I can do for free.

Thx Ive tried 6 different USB/sd cards and no patchstick boot. I bought this ATV for sole purpose to get XBMC on it. It has the 3.0.2 update on it thsi I installed as soon as I got it home. Embarrassed to say I caved and bought Atv flash.

I tried 8 usb drives with free hack but it failed everytime and it was driving me crazy so paid 40 bucks and got a simple download to put on USB drive. I tried 3 times with 2 different usb and it was the drive that I put Atv flash on twice that worked. Not sure why my attempts kept failing and i tried the drive that worked many times with free hack.

TY for your tips and ideas. But to stream my movie collection to my TV WIRELESSLY is the bomb and with XBMC looking tight Im all smiles.