Can't get Patchstick to load on 3.0.2 ATV

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Various USB Sticks, Kingston, PNY, etc.
2. B13 on mac version of loader AND tried 3.0 on PC
3. choose 3.x for firmware

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
just keeps booting to ATV or the Recovery console if i use Menu + "-" to 
restart.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I have the first gen ATV. I got it when it first came out. I have since 
upgraded it to 3.0.2 version. The lights blink on the USB drives, but it won't 
boot to them no matter what. I created the patchsticks on Snow Leopard AND 
Windows XP with no luck. 

Please provide any additional information below.
I tried 512mb kingston USB stick, 1gb pny stick, 4gb pny stick, 2gb kingston 
stick. No luck.

I did notice that when created on a MAC the patchstick is only 24mb in size, 
while on the PC it makes it about 240mb in size. Is that a issue?

What am I doing wrong? Should I factory restore my ATV? I really don't want to 
if I don't have to. 

Thanks.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by henrytk...@gmail.com on 27 Jul 2010 at 3:15

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Size isn't the problem. On Mac and Win both GPT partitions are 24MB. The 
remaining ~200MB is filler, space for payloads. 

Have you ever created a patchstick successfully with any of the USBs you are 
using and patched the aTV?

Original comment by Sam.Nazarko on 1 Aug 2010 at 1:07

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Nope. I searched around and believe that 3.0.2 disables the USB port as a boot 
device? Is that true? When I went back to factory restore, it put it to 1.0 (I 
bought apple tv when first came out). So when I upgraded it went right to 3.0.2

Any suggestions? I tried 5 different USB sticks. The software successfully 
makes the patchsticks, but ATV wont' boot from any of them.

Original comment by henrytk...@gmail.com on 6 Aug 2010 at 12:33

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I had exactly the same problem and it turned out to be the 4gb pny stick. I 
tried the sandisk cruzer 2gb flash drive and it worked just fine. I, too, have 
the first generation ATV and think that the requirement of the pny requires 
more power than the sandisk and perhaps that's why it didn't work with the 
first gen ATV. just a guess.

Original comment by rorym...@gmail.com on 6 Aug 2010 at 2:51

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i have the same issue, i have used multiple usb's with no luck. please help

Original comment by leao5...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2012 at 3:12