Connecting drive to PowerPC Mac
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No Longer Booting
**MINE WAS FINE: Just so people with PPC Mac's know -- I have connected the Apple TV drive to my Power PC (Dual G5) and re-installed that into my Apple TV. Boots and plays files fine, ssh working as well (used openssh since I don't have an intel mac) Other should post some successes in the Discussion section as well since this is one occurrence and seems to be a anomaly
After hooking up the drive to a PowerPC based mac, the AppleTV can no longer boot (just get a flashing appleTV logo with a question mark over it). IF anyone has any ideas, or a solution to at least restore the drive, please post here. I think what happens is the disk is set to no longer be bootable. Does anyone know a command line command to set a partition to bootable?
% diskutil info disk2
- Device Node: /dev/disk2
- Device Identifier: disk2
- Mount Point:
- Volume Name:
- Partition Type: GUID_partition_scheme
- Bootable: Not bootable
- Media Type: Generic
- Protocol: USB
- SMART Status: Not Supported
- Total Size: 37.3 GB
- Free Space: 0.0 B
- Read Only: No
- Ejectable: Yes
- OS 9 Drivers: No
- Low Level Format: Not Supported
% diskutil info disk2s1
- Device Node: /dev/disk2s1
- Device Identifier: disk2s1
- Mount Point:
- Volume Name:
- Partition Type: EFI
- Bootable: Not bootable
- Media Type: Generic
- Protocol: USB
- SMART Status: Not Supported
- Total Size: 34.0 MB
- Free Space: 0.0 B
- Read Only: No
- Ejectable: Yes
% diskutil info disk2s2
- Device Node: /dev/disk2s2
- Device Identifier: disk2s2
- Mount Point:
- Volume Name:
- Partition Type: 5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
- Bootable: Not bootable
- Media Type: Generic
- Protocol: USB
- SMART Status: Not Supported
- Total Size: 400.0 MB
- Free Space: 0.0 B
- Read Only: No
- Ejectable: Yes
% diskutil info disk2s3
- Device Node: /dev/disk2s3
- Device Identifier: disk2s3
- Mount Point: /Volumes/OSBoot
- Volume Name: OSBoot
- File System: Journaled HFS+
- Journal size 8192 k at offset 0x65b5000
- Owners: Enabled
- Partition Type: Apple_HFS
- Bootable: Not bootable
- Media Type: Generic
- Protocol: USB
- SMART Status: Not Supported
- UUID: 5F7DBFAD-B44F-3B25-839B-954D488BA529
- Total Size: 900.0 MB
- Free Space: 452.7 MB
- Read Only: No
- Ejectable: Yes
Fix
I did not have this problem and I connected the drive to my PowerPC, but from the diskutility dump that you pasted it does not look like you have a Media partition created. You can't create this through DiskUtility though as it will break. You can use iPartition, or you can go add it with gpt:
- # gpt add -s 309849759 -i 4 /dev/disk2
(you will want to change 309849759 to the # of blocks available on the drive. That # is the amount of free blocks I had on the 160 GB drive I upgraded to)
