Originally Posted by ash

Today I tried to prepare a Snow Leopard installation for use in my AppleTV. But unfortunately it seems that the AppleTV's boot.efi (tried 2.x and 3.0.1) is not able to boot the 10.6.0/10.6.2 Snow Leopard kernel.

All I get on verbose startup is:
Error allocating 0x0 pages at 0x88d000 alloc type 2
Error loading kernel 'mach_kernel' 0x80000009

So because it doesn't even load the kernel properly, it doesn't start to boot the system.

Any ideas how to make this at least loading the kernel?
Any help is appreciated ;-)

EDIT: I replaced the SL kernel with a 10.5.8 kernel and it begins to boot, but hangs on a kernel panic. So it might be possible that Apple has locked us out from bringing Snow Leopard to the AppleTV!

why in the world would you want to load snow leopard on the appletv? there is no way in hell that would ever run well

Leopard runs pretty well so far. So why should Snow Leopard work any worse.

My hope is that apple's optimizations squeeze even a little more out of the ATV hardware ;-).

And btw, I don't intend to use the ATV as a real machine. I just do this as some kind of hobby.

Originally Posted by ash

Leopard runs pretty well so far. So why should Snow Leopard work any worse.

My hope is that apple's optimizations squeeze even a little more out of the ATV hardware ;-).

And btw, I don't intend to use the ATV as a real machine. I just do this as some kind of hobby.

oh i know, i just really think it wouldnt be worth the amount of trouble that i know would be necessary to get sl running on there. unless you have all the free time in the world and are REALLY bored lol

Well, sometimes I AM really bored ;-)

And unfortunately, I don't have enough spare time - otherwise maybe this would already work.

Is it worth the trouble to make Leopard run on the ATV? Imho, not really. But (sometimes) it's fun.

Originally Posted by ash

Well, sometimes I AM really bored ;-)

And unfortunately, I don't have enough spare time - otherwise maybe this would already work.

Is it worth the trouble to make Leopard run on the ATV? Imho, not really. But (sometimes) it's fun.

yeh i always maintained that the performance achieved vs the time spent trying to get anything other than the traditional atv os to work is not even remotely worth it

Ok, I have read through this thing for an hour. Can someone please give me idiot proof instructions on the low audio fix. I can't find the voodoo kernal or the applehda.kext that needs to be modified. Can someone please link these to me or give me step by step instructions. Thank you for this image and all the work. This one thing would make my media center complete!

Thanks Again!

The only way to get sound working properly (atm) is to setup a 10.5.6 installation by yourself.

Jon's and mine are 10.5.8 - and there is no sound fix for that.

Maybe, if I got some time over the christmas holidays I'll setup a 10.5.6 and upload it for you - but no promises ;-)

So let me get this straight, If i download the image provided via torrent and clone it to my appletv, I should get a working copy of leopard that I can run frontrow on???

Is the low sound problem present in the downloaded image?

Also, will I be able to shutdown/sleep the device and how does it wake from sleep

I know its almost the same as having just a straight appletv interface, but thats what I want.

Also, should I be able to use a usb keyboard and mouse as well as a external harddrive?

The two images are fully working Mac OS X installations, except for the fact that sound volume is low and that it's very SLOW. You can use all kinds of (usb) devices though.

Originally Posted by ash

The two images are fully working Mac OS X installations, except for the fact that sound volume is low and that it's very SLOW. You can use all kinds of (usb) devices though.

I would love an image that is faster with better audio too!

To repeat the question above, will it go to sleep and wake up? This is the main reason I'm doing this. If the apple tv had an actual wake up and sleep mode things would be great! With Jon's image it goes to sleep but doesn't seem to want to wake up.

Why? Because I want to use this thing in my car... On the other hand, is there a way to put in a sleep / wake up or hibernate kext on an apple tv?