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Freak Poster Join Date: Mar 2011 Age: 41
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Member: 1542608 Status: Offline Thanks Meter: 94 | [Guide] Boot OS X from External USB drive - Complete HOWTO Goal: Boot up Mac OS X on an AppleTV from a USB drive without voiding warranty. This is done to allow the user to install hacks on the AppleTV internal drive itself. Credits: Modified Kernel by semthex [Cash Advance | Debt Consolidation | Insurance | Free Credit Report | Cell Phones at Semthex.com] Partitioning portions taken from Turbo's "Creating a disk to boot from USB" notes [0xfeedbeef.com - AppleTV Hacks] Portions of this guide taken from semthex's "Mac OS X running on Apple TV" howto Small portions written by Paul Taylor [http://www.addressplus.net] Required materials: An AppleTV A boot.efi file from an AppleTV (don't ask me where to find this) Intel Mac Tiger Install CD External USB 2.0 hard drive Set up your USB drive 1. In Mac OS, open Disk Utility 2. In the left pane of Disk Utility, select the USB drive 3. Hit the Options button at the bottom of the screen. 4. On the resultant screen, select GUID Partition Table. This is required to be able to install Mac OS X. 5. Lay out your partitions the way you want.. (One big, two, whatever) and format them with Mac OS Extended (Journaled) 6. Let the format finish. When done, you should be able to mount the drive. Install Mac OS X 1. Pop in your install disk with the external drive attached 2. Reboot, holding down the Option key on your keyboard 3. Select the CD icon to boot from your install CD 4. Run through the complete installation process, selecting your USB drive as the destination. Customize your USB installation 1. Run through the normal 1st boot stuff (Add user, etc.) 2. Download this: http://www.apple.com/support/downloa...dateintel.html 3. Install the 10.4.8 combo update 4. Reboot. Go to software update and get all the updates EXCEPT 10.4.9 5. System Prefs > Sharing 6. Check Remote Login here (this enables SSH) 7. Check Apple Remote Desktop 8. Click "Access Privileges", check the "VNC viewers" box, and put in a password here. This will let you remote control your AppleTV after you boot it with this installation. 9. Do any other customization you desire, except update to a newer version of Tiger Get ethernet working with PCGenRTL8139Ethernet 1.2.0 1. Download Download PCGenRTL8139Ethernet-1.2.0.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way 2. Install per the instructions in the file (Note: This is needed to get either the built-in Ethernet to work or the *******. This doesn't break Ethernet support for an Intel Core Duo iMac - not sure about others.) Install proper kernel 1. Boot back up to your internal hard drive 2. Download the kernel from one of the mirrors listed here: [Kernel] For AppleTV (to run OSX) 3. Mount your external drive 4. From a Terminal window, do this: ls -la /Volumes/YourExternalDisk 5. You will see a file called mach_kernel there. 6. Delete this file (may have to sudo rm /Volumes/YourExternalDisk/mach_kernel). Be careful here NOT to delete the kernel on your Internal Boot disk! 7. Copy the unzipped kernel you downloaded in step 2 to /Volumes/YourExternalDisk Install boot.efi 1. Replace /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi with the boot.efi file from the AppleTV boot drive (it is in the same path) 2. To do the above, you may have to do a "Get Info" on the boot.efi file on your external drive and uncheck the "Locked" checkbox. 3. Bless the installation from a Terminal: sudo bless --folder=/Volumes/YourExternalDisk/System/Library/CoreServices --file=/Volumes/YourExternalDisk/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi --setBoot Cleanup 1. Delete the Nvidia kexts (all begining with NVD, there are 5) from /Volumes/YourExternalDisk/System/Library/Extensions 2. Delete /Volumes/YourExternalDisk/System/Library/Extensions.mkext and Extensions.kextcache if they exist Patch AppleFileSystemDriver NOTE: Perform these steps with a command line text editor or with TextWrangler (http://www.barebones.com/products/te...ownload.shtml). DO NOT USE TEXTEDIT! 1. Edit /Volumes/YourExternalDisk/System/Library/Extensions/AppleFileSystemDriver.kext/Contents/Info.plist 2. Search for "IOPropertyMatch". It will be found similar to this: PHP Code: PHP Code: NOTE: Once you do this, you can't mount the disk on your Intel Mac anymore without reversing the change. If you mess up here, you'll need to start over. 1. Open Disk Utility 2. Select the external disk from the left pane. Right click and select "Information" 3. Take note of the "Disk Indentifier". In my case, it is "disk3". For safety reasons, the rest of this guide is written with "diskX". Replace the X with the number of your drive. 4. From Terminal: gpt -r show /dev/diskX 5. You'll get something similar to this back: PHP Code: 7. Unmount the disk: disktool -u diskX 8. Now, we remove the entry in the table for the 2nd partition gpt remove -i 2 /dev/diskX I got this back: gpt remove: /dev/disk3: 1 partition(s) removed 9. Mac OS will remount any remaining partitions. Unmount them: disktool -u diskX 10. Now, we add a new entry to the table. For index 2, take note of the start, and the size, as you'll need them here. Replace the START and SIZE strings with your values. gpt add -b START -s SIZE -i 2 -t "5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC" /dev/diskX Note that it doesn't tell you anything back.. You just get a prompt. 11. Performing step 5's command again gets me this: PHP Code: Boot your AppleTV with OS X 1. Attach your external drive to the USB port 2. If already booted up, hit MENU and "-" on your remote and hold it until a reboot start 3. If your AppleTV isn't on, plug it in to power. No remote finagling required. 4. Watch in AWE as your AppleTV boots up OS X. |
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