I've got OSX dual booting by installing OSX to the media partition and it works great. It doesn't interfere with ATV OS

I essentially Installed a fresh copy of osx to a 3.5" hard-drive(hackint0sh). Then popped in the ATV drive to my pc along with the fresh install. Then used Disk Utility to recover the osx partition from the 3.5" to the Media partition making sure to not reformat/erase partition. It will coexist with the Media/Scratch folders on the 4th partition.

Setup the usual mach_kernel/boot.efi mod using semthex's kernel and the guide from appletvhacks.net.

Then Bless with the below command via SSHing to the ATV after you put the drive back in.

bless --folder=/mnt/System/Library/CoreServices --file=/mnt/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi --setBoot --nextonly

Then reboot

This will tell it to use the boot.efi file from the media partition and boot osx, but only on the next reboot....

I wrote a script that does the bless command and then reboots automatically

Now all we need is someone to write a plugin to call a script to bless and reboot so we can do it from the atv menu and not have to use ssh.

To get back to ATV OS you would just need to reboot.

Another Interesting thing I found was my AppleTV has a 1.5ghz i'm going to run some xbenches to confirm that it's actually performing at this.
Screenshot....

WTF!
That is awesome!!!
I will do the same thing

iMags, let us know how you make out!
Sounds great.

Have you tried rEFIt? refit.sf.net

Originally Posted by arodd

Another Interesting thing I found was my AppleTV has a 1.5ghz i'm going to run some xbenches to confirm that it's actually performing at this.

Didn't hackintosh installs have problems with representing actual CPU speed? My 3 Ghz P4 was reported as 4 Ghz by system profiler.

Both the shipped ATV OS, and bootable off USB thumb drive Mac OS, that I patched together from install made on an intel mini and semthex' kernel, report 1Ghz CPU, so this looks like a representation bug.

Didn't work!
After blessing it only boots back up to the aTV OS, as it normally would.

Help?

UPDATE:
It works now.
Thanks to arodd who helped me

iMags, I hope you are not married as I sense you have spent the better part of Easter weekend working on this project.
Seriously, thanks for all the effort. I, for one, really appreciate the time you (and others) have put into this, and the various other, projects.
Keep up the good work.

I helped iMags get it working in the #appletv room in IRC....so add another to thelist of those who have got it working.

Yep... It's working alright.
..great actually.

Thanks again arodd

.. but I too am rebooting into aTV as opposed to the media partition.

What was the solution for iMags?