Draft of my guide (will do it again with bigger disk and adjust it). No other linux machine needed. this guide is based on LinuxUSBPenBoot PartitioningLinux LinuxUSBPenBoot You will need parted with Apple Recovery attribute support (at least to check partitions): http://code.google.com/p/atv-bootloader/wiki/InstallParted http://code.google.com/p/atv-bootloader/issues/detail?id=20 Download USB img (live distro) and Recovery.img here (Thank you Sam) http://stmteam.com/atv-img/ubuntu/hardy/ [...]
Jan
7
2011
7
2011
Jan
2
2011
2
2011
Enable FTP on Apple TV 1st gen
sudo -s Find ftpd file in recovery DMG: dd if=/dev/disk0s2 of=/tmp/recovery.dmg bs=1m hdiutil mount /tmp/recovery.dmg hdiutil mount /Volumes/Recovery/OS.dmg cp -p “/Volumes/OSBoot 1/usr/libexec/ftpd” /usr/bin/ chown root:wheel /usr/bin/ftpd chmod +x /usr/bin/ftpd hdiutil unmount /Volumes/OSBoot\ 1 hdiutil unmount /Volumes/Recovery -force rm /tmp/recovery.dmg create ftp.plist config file at another computer and ftps it to your user directory and then [...]
Jan
1
2011
1
2011
AppleTV 1st gen disk change
( gpt destroy /dev/disk1 gpt create /dev/disk1 ) diskutil list diskutil eject disk1 dd if=/dev/disk1 of=/Users/servis/AppleTV.img bs=1m diskutil eject disk1 dd if=/Users/servis/AppleTV.img count=1335 of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m diskutil eject disk1 gpt remove -i 4 disk1 diskutil eject disk1 gpt add -b 2732016 -i 4 -t hfs /dev/disk1 diskutil eject disk1 diskutil list diskutil eject disk1 newfs_hfs -J [...]