atvusb creator goes to login prompt.

[nanchatte]

I have an ATV updated to 2.2 and created a patchstick using the excellent ATV USB Creator software. (Although I tried it with 2.1 before updating and had exactly the same result).

First I made sure I'd selected the correct option with all the green tick showing next to SSH, Boxee etc... (Actually, that was the default)
It took a minute or two to download the image from the net and unpacked it in the staging dir.

The 512MB stick then took about 2 minutes to be created.

I checked the contents of the stick and they matched those shown on the google code website.

I booted up the ATV with the usb stick, saw the Tux on ATV logo... saw the screen flash with the regular Linux starting info...

And then boom.

Linux login prompt.

Now what?

I tried it several times but the same result.

When I restart the Apple TV,nothing is new, no SSH, no plugins.

Help...

[agentlame]

have you checked-out dave's blip.tv video: http://blip.tv/file/1326911/

[nanchatte]

Thx for the quick response!
I watched the vid first of all.
I noticed that the messages he got on the screen at the prompt did not match mine.

here are a few lines of output (copied by hand)

init started: BusyBox (v1.9.1)
atv-boot=patchstick -- searching for patchstick.sh
sh:0 unknown operand
atv-boot=patchstick failed
starting telnetd
udhcpc v.1.9.1 started

<other eth0 and lo network address stuff>

penbuntu login:

that's it.

[mtatv]

I'm having exactly the same problem that you desribe, except that I don't get as far as the login prompt. Once the screen shows the network info, it just hangs.

I'm using a 512MB Memorex thumb drive. I read elsewhere on the forum that the atvusb-creator should have partitioned the thumb drive into two partitions. (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?p=3016#post3016)

My atvusb-creator created /dev/disk1 and /dev/disk1s1 but NOT a second partition at (presumably) /dev/disk1s2. I'm wondering if this is the problem.

This is the second thumb drive I've tried. (The first didn't boot under ATV at all (2 GB Kindston data traveler).)

[marcel]

hi guys

check out this thread http://forum.boxee.tv/showpost.php?p=3016&postcount=10