For those of you who have upgraded to Apples latest operating system, Leopard, keep in mind that it’s a little harder to hack an AppleTV if your still in the initial phase of using a patchstick to ‘enable’ your ATV.
Creating a patchstick will work on Leopard, however it will package files from your Leopard system which are not compatible with the ATV’s 10.4.x kernel. So the patchstick will not work!
Ben said
November 15 2007 @ 1:08 pm
I just bought my MacBook this past weekend and was all fired up to hack my ATV. Now this!! Dang it…
Yeah I guess I could try to roll-back the OS. Any other suggestions?
James said
November 15 2007 @ 1:11 pm
a little birdy told me that you can “acquire” a pre-built (pre-created) patchstick from various sources that will allow you to “image” the patchstick to a usb stick (if you do not own a mac at all for example)
You may still need to use a utility to “image” the files to the thumb drive (like DD)
let me know what you find out. (oh, and nice one with the new Macbook, enjoy it!)
Adam said
November 26 2007 @ 9:39 am
There are several reports of patchstick torrents out there. Most do not work and some have even been reported to erase your ATV disk including the recovery partition. I would strongly advise against dowloading patchstick images. Just try to get hold of a mac running 10.4.x. I did it using a macbook pro and 10.4.11 and it worked perfectly.