[mythtv-users] appletv coexist with myth -- oops
Scott D. Davilla
davilla at 4pi.com
Sun Nov 9 20:56:40 UTC 2008
>Well, my goal was to have mythbuntu and appletv software coexisting on
>separate partitions on the appletv, then booting one or the other
>depending on having a usb drive plugged in or not.
>
>However, I must have made a mistake when installing mythbuntu. I
>resized the Media partition to make room for an sda5 and sda6 for
>linux and swap. Then when I went and installed mythbuntu I think I
>should have gone into the advanced options and deselected the
>installation of grub, but I didn't...and now I have a appletv that
>won't boot...either partition. It tries to boot the linux partition,
>but is unsuccessful. I'm thinking the install overwrote the MBR with
>its own to point to sda5, but I don't want this, I want the harddrive
>mbr to boot the appletv software/apple recovery partition, then have
>the usb drive point over to the linux install.
>
>Can anyone help me fix this? I'm guessing I would need the original
>MBR, would getting a dd copy of it from someone else work? What would
>that command look like and would anyone be willing to email me that
>binary?
>
>This looks promising, but not sure what to make of it, it sounds like
>it would be for a pure linux install, not a coexisting install.
>http://code.google.com/p/atv-bootloader/wiki/UpdateMBR
>
>There is also some references to mbr_fast-1.0.bin out there, but not
>sure if I could use this to fix the original mbr to boot the appletv
>software.
>
The AppleTV uses GPT formatted partitions. MBR is ignored on GPT
formatted disks and the AppleTV uses EFI to boot.
Your best bet is to use atv-bootloader on a USB flash drive to see
what grub did and try to correct it if possible.
More information about the mythtv-users
mailing list