AppleTV and OSX...

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In case anyone was interested in it, it seems that they got the Apple
TV to
run OSX some time ago and it looks a pretty simple process to do it.
Basically:



1)      Hook a 2.5" drive up to an Intel Mac as an external USB drive
and
install OSX on that drive, boot it, make any changes you want to make to
it,
patch it etc.

2)      Boot into OSX on a Mac (not using the drive you just installed OSX
on to boot from).

3)      Replace the kernel file on the new OSX drive with one that someone
has compiled specifically for the AppleTV.

4)      Replace the boot.ini file on the new OSX drive with the one from
the
old AppleTV drive.

5)      "Bless" the new OSX drive.

6)      Delete the NVidia graphics keys from the new OSX drive.

7)      Whack the new OSX drive into the AppleTV and boot it up.



Looks like it takes less than ten minutes once you have OSX installed on
the
drive ... I found a nice (50Mb) ".mov" video of it being done on
Azureus
Vuze.



Full details here...



http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/04/01/mac-os-x-running-on-apple-tv/



Phil



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