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Feeling like a plank here but whats USB image tool, can I not do this in disk utility?

garyi Wrote:Feeling like a plank here but whats USB image tool, can I not do this in disk utility?

Give this one a shot: http://www.alexpage.de/

Yea its restoring now. Gutted my four gig stick was not big enough so I have just spunked more money to tesco for an 8gig. Better work!

garyi Wrote:Yea its restoring now. Gutted my four gig stick was not big enough so I have just spunked more money to tesco for an 8gig. Better work!

Don't buy them in Tesco, you would've paid well over the odds for what you got..

Maybe but I got it immediately!

So anyway I stuck it the back of my ATV and switched on the little linux penguin appears some stuff happened up to muxing ethernet something or other and its stopped there. Says patchstick failed, cannot unmount mnt/rootfs

This makes gary a very sad panda.

bass63 Wrote:OK, I've finally managed to boot up OpenELEC using image posted above.

But as far as I can see it is just doesn't play any 720p content right - it skips relentlessly. I got 7-15 fps most of the time. Tried with or without hardware acceleration enabled (got CrystalHD installed) - it is just the same. Am i doing something wrong? I recall it was said that it can play 720p just fine. How can i switch to that noveau driver rendering?

Also - i can't switch resolution to 1080p24p - only got 1080@50 and 1080@60 options, and even when selecting 60Hz it still outputs 50 (according to my TV info).

Any ideas? Thanks!

I had to put it in 720p mode in order for video to work. When I had 1024p the ATV listed the cpu at 600MHz. The DNS is not correct but I seem to be able to connect to certain scraping sites. Also networking works fine using smb. It sees the Crystal HD but playback is in slow motion. I also can't get sound to work. Maybe have to use that plughw thing.

It does boot very fast.

So I guess there's the dns issue ( that is what prevented me from changing my city in weather), audio ( which may be trivial) and video driver. I used an 8gig flash drive. It puts the swap at the end.

Interesting.

philip

Does the automatic update function work for anyone with the USB-Image? Here the system comes with a popup, that there is an automatic update - and than nothing more.

Hi,

newsilentsilver Wrote:Does the automatic update function work for anyone with the USB-Image? Here the system comes with a popup, that there is an automatic update - and than nothing more.

yes it should work, if KERNEL and SYSTEM is installed on a ext3/4 partition. per default the automaitic update is disabled (you get only a notification). change /storage/.config/update.conf and set After an boot the system downloads the update, and extract this. then you get a notification you can reboot. After the reboot the update will be installed

i've tried on a 4Gb stick and the stick is not recognized by the ATV on boot. happened before, should get another one and try again.

I honestly believe I am not allowed to do these things.

Its advertised as so simple but has failed for me, both this image and the otherone with crystalbunto.

Cannot get either to complete, and its that tantalising thought that its working that is so crippling when it all goes belly up.

Still the little penguin sat on the ATV looked pretty.

RESTORE in device mode. Not volume mode.

OK Sam will try.

sraue Wrote:yes it should work, if KERNEL and SYSTEM is installed on a ext3/4 partition. per default the automaitic update is disabled (you get only a notification). change /storage/.config/update.conf and set

Code:

AUTOUPDATE=auto

After an boot the system downloads the update, and extract this. then you get a notification you can reboot. After the reboot the update will be installed

Yes, I done all this before, but nothing.

@fistacorpse: Is your original usb stick updating all right?

I didn't run into any issues booting up the image on my aTV. I didn't have a big enough usb stick around, but I dd'ed the image onto a usb HD and was able to boot into XBMC with no problems.

That said, HD content doesn't run very smoothly at all. Under the original version it was very poor. After updating to 0.90.2 it runs better, but still jitters quite a bit. The resolution is set at 1080p@60Hz but I'm only seeing 30Hz.

I'd love to help debug the issues. I'm a novice to aTV Linux, but not a Linux novice.

Steve

fistacorpse Wrote:Well, upload has finished - here you go everyone

http://rapidshare.com/files/439930479/op...tv_atv.md5
http://rapidshare.com/files/439930481/op...part01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/439942947/op...part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/439954150/op...part03.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/439964738/op...part04.rar

1) download all 4 files
2) extract the .IMG file, verify against the md5 hash if you're bored or feel the need
3) restore the image using "USB Image Tool" to a 4GB+ USB stick
4) turn off your AppleTV
5) plug in the USB stick and turn your AppleTV on
6) ? ? ?
7) Profit!

Cheers! Have fun & thanks a lot Tcalp
Now, it's past 1AM and I have to be at work by 7AM.

Please give me any feedback you have, although I probably won't be able to get back to you until some time next year

Not working!