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Firstly - thanks for all the hard work and advice in this thread. I'm currently running piins image from a 16gb USB stick and am pretty happy with it. Using the instructions in this thread I expanded the free space, updated the crystal driver and updated to rc1 - Ll is good. I have a couple of questions though
1 what is the easiest way to reimage the USB stick in it's current stare? Bit concerned about something happening to it and me losing all the hard work I put in! I have access to Linux windows and osx so any tool recommendations would be great
2 I'm thinkning of taking the next step and installing this image alongside the apple tv os - there are instructions to do this with sector values for a 40gb drive in the thread somewhere, but it'd be great if someone could give me the vlaue to partition a 160gb drive to have say 80gb for the apple media partion and the rest for xbmc/linux/swap
3 has anyone had any luck updating the nvidia drivers on pins image recently? I updated the repository but couldn't see anything that looked like the right driver set to install then I looked through the list...
Thanks again!
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Thanks for the script correction. I got the driver to install without errors. However, still no crystalhd render option in xbmc. I started from scratch using the usb image on my 8 gig drive. After I updated to RC1 as outlined in this thread, the crystal render option vanishes. Anyone else have this issue, any fix ideas?
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Interesting, it was all good for me.
I have an option on the Video setup screen in the Settings area to enable Crystal HD support.
You just click it to set it.
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Attempted one more time using R174. All is working at this time.
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Having a spot of bother with this bit:
sudo fsck.hfsplus /dev/sda2
sudo mkdir tmp
sudo mount /dev/sda2 tmp
sudo nano tmp/com.apple.Boot.plist
The mount is ok but there is no com.apple.Boot.plist in the directory ?
After a reboot (still from the usb stick) I have the following:
xbmc@atv:~/tmp$ mount
/dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/Recovery type hfsplus (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,uhelper=hal)
after the mount I have this in the directory:
xbmc@atv:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 tmp
xbmc@atv:~$ cd tmp
xbmc@atv:~/tmp$ ls
bin cdrom etc initrd initrd.img.old lost+found mnt proc sbin srv tmp var vmlinuz.old
boot dev home initrd.img lib media opt root share sys usr vmlinuz
Think my dev mount letters have changed somewhere ?
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You mounted root (/) but want to mount Recovery which is always the first drive (/dev/sda1 not /dev/sda2)
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silly me, of course! works a treat now, many thanks for your help!