Need help - AppleTV drive formatted :-( [Archive]

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grenoble

Jun 27, 2007, 08:53 PM

Hi guys,

I made a mistake this week when trying to enable things like SSH on the Apple TV. I have a backup of the OSBOOT partition but unfortunately not of the EFI partition ... I'm able to boot a Mac OS X install from the USB drive but now I don't know how to restore the original OS of the AppleTV. I know how to create the gpt thing but I don't have a backup of the factory disk ...

What can I do ?

Best regards,

grenoble

Cave Man

Jun 27, 2007, 09:49 PM

My understanding is that this image is available on bit-torrent, but I do not know where. Try google?

grenoble

Jun 27, 2007, 10:15 PM

Hi,

OSBOOT is on some torrent sites but I'm not able to find the EFI image ...

Thanks !

Grenoble

aristobrat

Jun 27, 2007, 10:22 PM

Isn't the EFI image inside the 1.1 update?

The AwkardForums wiki had a direct link to the 1.1 update DMG file.

grenoble

Jun 27, 2007, 10:55 PM

Thanks for the tip - I downloaded the image

hum, I don't think so ... I only see OSBOOT when I mount the dmg.
Have a nice evening

aristobrat

Jun 28, 2007, 11:09 AM

Sorry about that, I was thinking about this when you mentioned EFI.
Availability

Apple's first software update contains a copy of the boot.efi file, for use in other projects. It can be downloaded from http://mesu.apple.com/data/OS/061-2988.20070620.bHy75/2Z694-5248-45.dmg and is located at usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi within the DMG. http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Boot.efi_Information#Availability, it's located in

grenoble

Jun 28, 2007, 01:25 PM

Thanks again !

I understand now how this EFI partition works. It is automatically created when the hard drive is formatted with GUID table option. I restored OSBoot to the hard drive and now I can boot the AppleTV OS. The only thing that I don't have is the second partition which contains the recovery partition of the ATV. It is used to restore the software to the original factory state.

Have a nice day

Grenoble

Jesuz

Aug 6, 2007, 10:18 AM

grenoble

Aug 9, 2007, 08:37 AM

Would you please explain how to recovery AppleTV harddrive with OSBoot and EFI file?

In fact, you need to recreate the original partition scheme on the hard drive
and use EFI and Recovery disk images. OSBoot is not necessary to do it.

To do this without opening the ATV, I have installed OSX on a external usb2 drive. I did boot with OSX, logged on the ATV using Appe Remote Desktop and configured the hard drive.

I can send you more info via email if you want.

Thanks

rsivan

Sep 11, 2007, 10:03 AM

I have same problem
I need dmg image of 400mb partition or of a complete partition
thanks

marcowind80

Sep 12, 2007, 05:27 PM

In fact, you need to recreate the original partition scheme on the hard drive
and use EFI and Recovery disk images. OSBoot is not necessary to do it.

To do this without opening the ATV, I have installed OSX on a external usb2 drive. I did boot with OSX, logged on the ATV using Appe Remote Desktop and configured the hard drive.

I can send you more info via email if you want.

Thanks

hi, can you send me more info to recreate original partition with efi and recovery images without opening the atv, please?
thanks you in advance

email to: marcowind2002@hotmail.com

pescista

Sep 23, 2007, 05:38 PM

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 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?