Please Help

[pescista]

So in the course of hacking my apple tv it got fubar'd. I had to wipe it clean and then use the disk image file i had created. only i didnt image the correct drive partition on the apple tv hdd.

Here is my question, i have the osboot files and the boot.efi files, how do i go about using these to make my Apple TV operational again?

OR

Does any one have an full Apple TV drive image that i could get from them?

-Michael

 

[asdp38]

AppleTv formated

Hi guys

I have the same problem, appltv dive formed, and now I can use the hard drive for like an external device, I am so sad.

So like Grenoble did, do you have a little little tuto in order to rebuild the apple TV .

Thanks in advance

Asdp38

 

[asdp38]

find solution form crashed, with a new disk

So I have succed to created form a new disk my appletv (the old disk crashed), 20 minutes needed

First plug your new disk on your usb / firewire ports

Open a Terminal
type the command below :

mount

/dev/disk0s2 on / (local, journaled)devfs on /dev (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)
<volfs> on /.vol
/dev/disk0s3 on /Volumes/Untitled (local, read-only)
automount -nsl [247] on /Network (automounted)
automount -fstab [252] on /automount/Servers (automounted)
automount -static [252] on /automount/static (automounted)
/dev/disk1s3 on /Volumes/OSBoot (local, nodev, nosuid, journaled)
/dev/disk1s4 on /Volumes/Media (local, nodev, nosuid, journaled)


The lines on red, are the disk (in my case the old before crash)


diskutil eject disk1


Make a destroy of all the partitons with a :

gpt destroy /dev/disk1

After all gpt command , you will to do a disk eject) , ignore the error message form the graphic interface (click on ignor)

diskutil eject disk1

Create the new disk :
gpt create /dev/disk1

diskutil eject disk1
Do a gpt show for the result (in my case a 40 giga disk)

gpt show /dev/disk1
start size index contents 0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 78140093
78140127 32 Sec GPT table
78140159 1 Sec GPT header


Make an eject disk :

diskutil eject disk1

Create the efi partition :

gpt add -b 40 -i 1 -s 409600 -t efi /dev/disk1

diskutil eject disk1

gpt show /dev/disk1
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 77730487
78140127 32 Sec GPT table
78140159 1 Sec GPT header

diskutil eject disk1
Create the partition , use the gpt show in order to build the exact size , in my case 409640

gpt add -b 409640 -i 2 -s 819200 -t 5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC /dev/disk1


A little disk eject

diskutil eject disk1

A gpt show, for check
gpt show /dev/disk1 start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 819200 2 GPT part - 5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1228840 76911287
78140127 32 Sec GPT table
78140159 1 Sec GPT header

Again an eject

diskutil eject disk1

Create the third partition

gpt add -b 1228840 -i 3 -s 1843200 -t hfs /dev/disk1

diskutil eject disk1

gpt show /dev/disk1

start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 819200 2 GPT part - 5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1228840 1843200 3 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3072040 75068087
78140127 32 Sec GPT table
78140159 1 Sec GPT header

diskutil eject disk1

gpt add -b 3072040 -i 4 -s 75068087 -t hfs /dev/disk1

diskutil eject disk1

gpt show /dev/disk1 start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 819200 2 GPT part - 5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1228840 1843200 3 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3072040 75068087 4 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
78140127 32 Sec GPT table
78140159 1 Sec GPT header

four new partitons have been created
Now we will build the disk :

Tape the following command :

newfs_hfs /dev/disk1s2

Normaly you will have a message like :
Initialized /dev/rdisk1s2 as a 400 MB HFS Plus volume

Tape the following command :
newfs_hfs -J -v OSBoot /dev/disk1s3

New message like :
Initialized /dev/rdisk1s3 as a 900 MB HFS Plus volume with a 8192k journal

newfs_hfs -J -v Media /dev/disk1s4

Message like :
Initialized /dev/rdisk1s4 as a 36 GB HFS Plus volume with a 8192k journal

diskutil eject disk1

Restore you dmg file by the disk utiliy (more easy), with a dmg 1.0 from the net (torrent ...) on OSBOT Partition (OS-dot-DMG 1.0.dmg : 197 mo)

After that, on the terminal windows ; type the mount command

mount
/dev/disk0s2 on / (local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)
<volfs> on /.vol
/dev/disk0s3 on /Volumes/Untitled (local, read-only)
automount -nsl [247] on /Network (automounted)
automount -fstab [252] on /automount/Servers (automounted)
automount -static [252] on /automount/static (automounted)
/dev/disk1s3 on /Volumes/OSBoot (local, journaled)
/dev/disk1s4 on /Volumes/Media (local, nodev, nosuid, journaled)

You two partitions : OSBoot and Media ,
The last thing to do, is to copy the boot efi, make sure that OSBoot, is the only partiotn name like that (no OSBoot 1, or 2), make the command below :

sudo bless --folder=/Volumes/OSBoot/System/Library/CoreServices
--file=/Volumes/OSBoot/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi --setBoot

Type your password


Now you can connect you hard drive on your appletv, an it is working.


You can visit this site for more explications :

http://smallnum.blogspot.com/2008/02/re-creating-apple-tv-from-scratch.html