Boot from external disk

[ptaylor874]

Saw this on appletvhacks.net... Anyone got it work yet?

Booting from USB requires booting the Apple TV as nromal then holding ‘menu’ and ‘-’ keys on the remote to initiate a restore boot. From there it takes a bit of timing, Turbo explains, “If I hold down menu and - from poweron until the first screen flash, I believe that it does the equivalent of cmd-opt-p-r. I only got it to boot from USB by releasing it at that point, then hitting it again just before the screen flashes on the second reset.”


I've tried it a few times, but have not been successful...

[mcka]

What about that:

http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/03/how_to_boot_appletv_from_usb.html
(video included)

Perhaps that's useful too: http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Booting_from_a_USB_Thumbdrive

please let us know if you can make it work!

[barbro66]

this doesn't work yet - the apple tv hacks guy is talking out of his ass.

[mcka]

Have you tried:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Patchstick ?

Details:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Patchstick/Testing
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Booting_from_a_USB_Thumbdrive

[bertha674]

I've made an OSX image on a USB disk like on the sticky forum topic. I've installed ssh and ATVFiles without opening my apple tv. The only hard thing was getting the boot.efi.

With the menu and - button the ATV does reboot and uses the usb disk to start from. I just held the buttons on the remote until it rebooted, that should be enough... If that doens't work then i guess there something wrong with the USB disk.

[Dambi]

from where have you got the boot.efi? i have everthing but the boot.efi not. could you send it to me??

please!!!! :-)

[teldec]

well the boot.efi is in the update
here (http://mesu.apple.com/data/OS/061-2988.20070620.bHy75/2Z694-5248-45.dmg)

[sazimx]

i understand.