Worked Great for Me! Thanks OSX running without opening my ATV. Now to figure out how to do the rest of the hacks to the OS itself. I am backing up the original partitions now. Thanks again!

Plugged in my MAC Keyboard to the ATV and Jumped the Drive and the Mouse off of it and it works perfectly.

Hmmm, I wonder what the difference is between those who followed the directions and got it working vs those who followed the directions and are getting the prohibitory logo on boot...

These are the differences between my first (failed with the no-entry logo) and second (worked) attempts:

- First time I'd done a full install of OSX, second time I did a customised install, with as little as possible.

- First time I missed a few things initially (deleting all the ktext stuff I was meant to), and did some bits after my first try at booting, and then tried again.

- First time I initially added IOPropertyMatch stuff after what was there, and then changed to having it before what was there. Second time, I had it before from the start.


It's possible I also missed something else the first time, but I'm pretty sure I didn't.

Hi all,

I think I'm getting most of this right (total Terminal n0ob), but can I check one thing?

In the bit below, does it mean to paste the new stuff in over the top of everything below <array>, or in between <array> and everything that comes after it, ie, not actually losing anything from the original Info.plist, but adding the new text to it?

Cheers!

S_Bruv

Patch AppleFileSystemDriver
1. Edit /Volumes/YourExternalDisk/System/Library/Extensions/AppleFileSystemDriver.kext/Contents/Info.plist
2. Search for "IOPropertyMatch". It will be found similar to this:
PHP Code:
<key>media-match</key>
<dict>
<key>IOPropertyMatch</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>Content Hint</key>
<string>48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC</string>
<key>Leaf</key>
<true/>
</dict>
3. Just after the line with <array>, copy/paste this in:
PHP Code:
<dict>
<key>Content Hint</key>
<string>5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC</string>
<key>Leaf</key>
<true/>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>Content Hint</key>
<string>Apple_Recovery</string>
<key>Leaf</key>
<true/>
</dict>

Originally Posted by mbd

Hmmm, I wonder what the difference is between those who followed the directions and got it working vs those who followed the directions and are getting the prohibitory logo on boot...

i also got the logo, did it twice because i thought i forgot to delete kextcache or the AppleRTL8139Ethernet.kext (which isnt even there).

I did twice the Howto, with two different HD, and I still have the prohibition sign at the boot. If anyone have an idea, please publish it!

heeeeeeeeey!?!

I followed exactly the instruction bootet my box with usb drive connected and it worked perfectly.

but at the second try I got the prohibited sign during boot sequence!
why? anyone has an idea? did the atv modified my installation on the external disk????

this is really weird...
gtx,
pheno

that:

<key>media-match</key>
************<dict>
****************<key>IOPropertyMatch</key>
****************<array>
<dict>
************************<key>Content*Hint</key>
************************<string>5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC</string>
************************<key>Leaf</key>
************************<true/>
********************</dict>
********************<dict>
************************<key>Content*Hint</key>
************************<string>Apple_Recovery</string>
************************<key>Leaf</key>
************************<true/>
********************</dict>*
********************<dict>
************************<key>Content*Hint</key>
************************<string>48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC</string>
************************<key>Leaf</key>
************************<true/>
********************</dict>


or shall it look like that:

<key>media-match</key>
************<dict>
****************<key>IOPropertyMatch</key>
****************<array>
<dict>
************************<key>Content*Hint</key>
************************<string>5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC</string>
************************<key>Leaf</key>
************************<true/>
********************</dict>
********************<dict>
************************<key>Content*Hint</key>
************************<string>Apple_Recovery</string>
************************<key>Leaf</key>
************************<true/>
********************</dict>


thank you very much

Originally Posted by luke

These are the differences between my first (failed with the no-entry logo) and second (worked) attempts:

- First time I'd done a full install of OSX, second time I did a customised install, with as little as possible.

- First time I missed a few things initially (deleting all the ktext stuff I was meant to), and did some bits after my first try at booting, and then tried again.

- First time I initially added IOPropertyMatch stuff after what was there, and then changed to having it before what was there. Second time, I had it before from the start.


It's possible I also missed something else the first time, but I'm pretty sure I didn't.

Every time I installed (and got the prohibited sign), I booted into my partition multiple times to make sure my updates installed. It sounds like yours failed when you did this.

I'm going to give it another try with one boot.

Okay, I've done the how-to twice now, and I get the prohibited sign every time.

I'm wondering if maybe it's got something to do with what flavour of Mac is used to create the ATV OS X installation. I've been doing it on a Mac Pro, so now I'm wondering if I should maybe try it on my MacBook Pro instead. Is that a silly idea?

Thoughts?

Cheers,
S_B