Boot from USB Thumb?

[GoodOmens]

Checked the wiki and came accross this:

http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Booting_from_a_USB_Thumbdrive

He claims it is working. Is this true and can you mount the internal drive to enable ssh?

I can't try it until I get home today :-(

[barbro66]

no he doesn't

Note that as is, the recovery partition image won't boot completely from USB, since the kernel basically cuts its own head off when it disables USB.

[GoodOmens]

no he doesn't

Note that as is, the recovery partition image won't boot completely from USB, since the kernel basically cuts its own head off when it disables USB.


AHh oops missed that line. It seems using a kernel with usb support on the thumb drive would fix this. Or is he refering to the kernel inside the ATV?

[zero]

this contradicts the external usb drive recovery demonstration.

[barbro66]

No because that only showed a boot starting and than failing, and falling back to an reboot off the internal drive.

[DxQ]

You could patch USB on the drive's system before using it. Or you could roll-your-own OS X that would run on a thumb drive. I got an EXTREMELY minimal install of OS X running on a MacBook Pro from a 1 gig thumbdrive.

[rootuid]

$ dd if=Hybrid.img of=/dev/disk1 bs=1M

Initially I get a bs invalid error so i changes bs to bs=1m. Then I get a resource busy error. I have umounted the partition.

How do I create a Partition Type of {5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC}? Am I required to create this partition before running dd? The instructions appear unclear :( Has anyone gotten this working?

[rootuid]

Initially I get a bs invalid error so i changes bs to bs=1m. Then I get a resource busy error. I have umounted the partition.

How do I create a Partition Type of {5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC}? Am I required to create this partition before running dd? The instructions appear unclear :( Has anyone gotten this working?Anyone got any tips?

[DxQ]

Read this: http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=634