everything looks like it's working, but nothing happens (atv 2.3.1)

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Patchstick creation seems to work fine.  Unplug ATV, insert patchstick, 
plug it back in.
2. Penguin sitting on ATV... text text text scroll scroll scroll  The text 
stops scrolling after a while (it's a bit hard to read, so I can't really 
tell what it's saying) so I unplug ATV, remove patchstick, and plug it 
back in.
3. Nothing's changed in the ATV menu.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I'd expect to see the menu items for XBMC and I'm not seeing anything new, 
just the same ATV menu.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
WinXP Pro SP3, atv-win-1.0.b11, and ATV 2.3.1.  I made a patchstick with 
atv-win-1.0.b10 on a Tiger machine last night and it did basically the 
same thing.

Please provide any additional information below.
The text scrolls for a while each time and if I let it sit after it stops 
scrolling, the screen goes black.  That's after like 5 or 10 minutes of 
the text finishing scrolling.  Thanks in advance for any help!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tauromac...@gmail.com on 13 Mar 2009 at 12:45

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any errors indicated in the text that appears?

Original comment by sdavi...@gmail.com on 13 Mar 2009 at 3:36

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I moved the ATV to another TV to make the text more clear.  There are some 
messages 
that go by pretty quickly about what looks like USB initialization or something 
like 
that.  There was a consistent 'error -110' that kept coming up.  The very end 
(it's 
hard to tell exactly what it's saying due to overscan) has some text that's cut 
off, 
but the part I can see is like '...ease, failure.' with some more information 
after 
it.  I've tried two different flash drives now and I'm thinking the problem 
might 
just be in the ATV.

Original comment by tauromac...@gmail.com on 14 Mar 2009 at 4:01

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It's not a problem with the atv. Look for the lines near the end, patchstick.sh 

Original comment by sdavi...@gmail.com on 14 Mar 2009 at 5:09

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Okay, the part about patchstick.sh near the end.  Again, the left side is 
truncated.

oot=patchstick -- searching for patchstick.sh
oot=patchstick failed - starting telnetd

Original comment by tauromac...@gmail.com on 14 Mar 2009 at 2:53

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patchstick creation problem, try another brand USB flash drive.

Original comment by sdavi...@gmail.com on 14 Mar 2009 at 3:19

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4 flash drives later, it's still doing the identical thing.  I've tried a PNY 
Attache (512 MB), some random freebie I got as a giveaway (2 GB), generic Micro 
Center (2 GB), and an HP-branded one (2 GB).  Maybe I'm doing something else 
wrong.  
I'll try downloading everything again in case something was corrupted.

Original comment by tauromac...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2009 at 2:30

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Redownload didn't do anything - all 4 flash drives are failing install. This 
most 
recent time, I ended up having to do a factory restore, so I'll try it again.

Original comment by tauromac...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2009 at 3:24

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After factory restore and updates, it's still not working.  Thanks anyway for 
the 
help in trying to figure this out!

Original comment by tauromac...@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2009 at 1:00

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if the patchstick script output says "patchstick failed - starting telnetd", 
then something is wrong with the 
patchstick. It's not an atv problem, it's a patchstick problem.

"atv-win-1.0.b10 on a Tiger machine", not possible, atv-win is for windows not 
OSX. Use atvusb-creator for 
OSX.

Windows is done in two parts, run the batch script, then use USB Tool in device 
mode to write the disk image 
to the USB flash drive.

Original comment by sdavi...@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2009 at 2:48

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Right, I ran the OSX one on an OSX machine at first, and then the Windows one 
on a 
Windows machine for subsequent attempts.  Sorry if that was confusing - I 
copied the 
wrong thing when I put that message together.  I was meaning to point out that 
I'd 
tried .b10 earlier and had moved on to .b11.  The directions were really easy 
to 
follow and the tools seemed pretty much impossible to mess up.  I'm just 
running 
into a wall on getting the thing running on the ATV over 4 different flash 
drives.  
I guess it could be just extraordinarily bad luck that I managed to pick 4 
different 
drives that didn't work.  I'll try looking around to see if there's a 'magic 
bullet' 
brand that's always worked for people.

Original comment by tauromac...@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2009 at 5:56

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Last drive I bought was a Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB and it worked fine.

Original comment by sdavi...@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2009 at 6:17

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Okay, I picked up that exact same model flash drive today and it still does the 
same 
thing.  It doesn't work.  I'm not really sure what else can be done with this.

Original comment by tauromac...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2009 at 1:45

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I also have the same exact problems, I have the .b10 and have tried known 
working brands, the latest being 
PNY Attache 2GB when loading the USB Hard Drive library it says: device 
descriptor read 64 error -110

it says this a couple times then it says it cannot locate the patchstick.sh

I have done a factory reset on the appletv etc.

I have tried doing the patchstick with 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 along with doing it in 
XP to make the patchstick

I have formated the stick with disk utility etc....

Still it does not wok and loads telnetd...

any help would be appreciated!

Original comment by scottg...@gmail.com on 29 Apr 2009 at 10:24

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here is part of the dmesg:

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-1: device not accepting address 4, error -110
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-1: device not accepting address 5, error -110
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.

Original comment by scottg...@gmail.com on 29 Apr 2009 at 10:47

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That's the same exact thing I'd seen.  I didn't have any way to easily 
catch/output 
that text.

Original comment by tauromac...@gmail.com on 30 Apr 2009 at 6:17

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I managed to patchstick my aTV, after having the same issue couple of people 
describes above. 

I changed USB Image Tool options: ticked 'Ignore size checks for gzip images' 
box in 
Options tab - and restored the image to the stick with these options.

USB stick was Scandisk Cruzer Micro 4GB.
I did this on Windows XP.

Pekkur

Original comment by pek...@gmail.com on 5 May 2009 at 9:58