Installing Windows XP on an Apple TV but Everything Goes Wrong...

[@sleepygraham5482]

“Everything went wrong” is by far my favorite series on this channel

[@PR1NC3]

Thats my life

[@dovahkiin2108]

Goes*

[@LJ8652Studio]

Me 2

[@fanfan54old]

Maybe Michael should rename his channel "Everything Went Wrong" 🤔 🤔 🤔

[@julieboruta]

@sleepygraham5482 The whole channel went wrong your saying?

[@DistrosProjects]

The reason it didn't work is because the Apple TV only boots from its own EFI file that is used for its own OS. In order to boot Linux you need to make a fake mach_kernel (OS X) file that contains a Linux kernel. A mach_kernel that contains the XP kernel/loader doesn't exist yet.

[@superJK92]

Time to learn xp's boot kernel and the mach_kernel syntax and code to make one that will have it work

[@CRCBenjamin]

so there's a chance a ReactOS modified kernel might boot.....

[@amdintelxsniperx]

this

[@Manawyrm]

This project might actually be a lot more possible these days, because the XP source code leaked a while ago. The bootloader and everything is also included there. I would suspect that the easiest way for this is probably through making grub-efi or something similar into a mach_kernel and then letting that load the ntldr directly...

[@MaximNightFury]

@@Manawyrm The source code leak wouldn't help because Microsoft would just do a C&D against anything using their source code directly

[@ruinfox4108]

i can imagine this isnt very fun for you when it happens but these are my favourite type of videos from you, watching you troubleshoot problems probably no one else has ever had in todays age its just very entertaining

[@svampebob007]

troubleshooting problems like that (obscure problems that yourself caused by trying to do something out of the norm) is absolutely the worst thing I know of when dealing with computers... but at the same time at the end of the troubleshooting you 99/100 times come out with lots more knowledge then you did at the start of the troubleshooting. I absolutely hate when computers don't do exactly what I expect them to do, I never regret learning something new, I might not solve my problem, but more often then not, I do learn something extremely practical.

[@not_herobrine3752]

@@svampebob007 terry a. davis would have liked your comment

[@Theunicorn2012]

i can imagine this isnt very fun for you when it happens but these are my favourite type of videos from you, watching you troubleshoot problems probably no one else has ever had in todays age its just entertaining

[@ruinfox4108]

@@Theunicorn2012 why did you just copy my comment

[@mal0gen]

@@ruinfox4108 it's a youtube bot trying to farm likes

[@CoolerofHell]

This video is giving me Druaga1 vibes, the consistent attempts to problem solve along with failures, buying an egregious amounts of adapters to jerry rig a device in an unorthodoxed manner. This felt awesome to see for almost 50 mins.

[@jaubuchon28]

God I miss the one true smoker

[@bloccer]

im so glad i wasnt the only one who thought this

[@brinkofdeath]

I have to say, your persistance is admirable. Even though you didn't succeed in your quest to install windows on the apple tv, your video is for sure a success. I rarely sit through a video on youtube longer than 15 minutes, but this had me glued to the very end and I enjoyed every minute of it. If there will ever be a continuation to this project I would run to the nearest store and buy snacks and drinks before watching.

[@18rocksthegames78]

Good idea, I’ll get my friend to give us both discounts on them

[@grootsChannel]

Spoilers much!

[@gakabler]

I have to tell you I was in hysterics watching everything go wrong. Seeing you try to use 40/44 pin switches for the reverse of what they were intended was a stroke of genius if it had worked. This really was the best 45 minutes of my day. Thanks Michael!

[@EBTheOriginalMaster]

I am a newcomer to your channel and absolutely enjoyed your installing Windows operating systems on the old $5 Windows 98 PC.

[@arubberroomwithrats]

ok EB The Original Master

[@Qwerty-uiop]

@@arubberroomwithrats he's not the original master now

[@arubberroomwithrats]

@@Qwerty-uiop fr

[@mastergenius0039]

Oh yeah! What happened to the 98 pc? I don’t See it anymore

[@EBTheOriginalMaster]

@@arubberroomwithrats Do you have a problem?

[@TheRandomChannel_idk]

_"It's always a MJD video when something goes wrong."_ -sun tzube, art of internet

[@GreenvillSSnick]

best fake quote of all time

[@itisliamhfjone22]

so real (also marker teapot/beeffbee/beefdeewhy!!!)

[@slowednation999]

I used to have a Latitude D600. Only real difference was the 600 didn't have BT, the 610 did, and maybe the 610 had a Celeron D and the 600 had a Pentium 4 ? Can't remember. But I got the D600 for my 10th birthday, and being a 10 year old kid getting a full fledged Windows XP laptop, was the coolest feeling in the world. That laptop got me started into the world of KZbin and lasted me a good 2 years. Miss it. Like seeing your 610 every now and then, my grandma had a 610 lol. I just can't escape that laptop

[@artce]

Wow

[@joeynebulous816]

I had a D600, it used a 1st gen pentium M 1.5GHz cpu (or another pentium/Celeron M counterpart), the D610 used second gen Pentium/celeron M cpus with a faster FSB.

[@slowednation999]

@@joeynebulous816 ah yeah that’s what it was. Such good memories with that laptop. Was a really solid little computer within its realm, the second you started to push it past it limits it showed you it can’t do that but I mean it did everything I wanted it to do until I accidentally killed it with viruses being a kid. (LimeWire 🤣)

[@artce]

I had an Acer Aspire 3690 with a Celeron M 420 in 2020-2021. Now in 2022 changed to an Asus X551CA with 3217U and integrated graphics. But it's not mine of course, it's a family one. I still don't have mine. I'm just used to calling it that.

[@artce]

I'm 18 years old now. The first computer I used was a laptop, and that was in 2012. I was eight years old at the time.

[@a-miel]

I love this installing but everything goes wrong series. they're all very entertaining and informative at the same time.

[@cladiot1023]

USB booting should be possible. I remember the 8 Bit Guy did a Video years ago about an alternative firmware for this Apple TV from a flash drive.

[@TrentonPine]

i saw that too

[@praetorangel8967]

In XP, when you go to set folder options, you can also set the default action for folders/file folders to "explore" instead of "open" and that gives you the left hand nav pane more consistently in explorer. In case that's relevant.

[@joerizzo3579]

I love that his desktop background at 14:55 is “Bliss”, but how it looks now, when he went to see it

[@JVHShack]

Speaking at a PCB level, unless there are bespoke integrated circuits on/in those IDE adapters, they *will* work regardless of the direction. The second adapter that was shown is truly a passive device, i.e, a bunch of tiny wires packed into a "sandwich" of laminate/synthetic materials. The resistors on it I believe are purely for the red and green LEDs. There is something that could be done with that second adapter: desolder the bad female 44 pin connector and solder the double male 44 pin connector in place of that original one as it came.

[@NoahClevinger]

I always enjoy your Windows XP videos! I have a ton of nostalgia for that OS.

[@tylern6420]

I remember some of XP

[@alexfinns6162]

What you could have done to repair the original Mac OS installation was plug in the hard drive to another pc and change the Mac OS version back on that ext file to see if that would fix the problem. After this, you could have booted up Mac OS and entered system settings. When there you would go to restart settings (something like that) where you can choose which drive to boot from at the next boot. Great video man!

[@caneprints]

Even though sometimes your experiments do not work, I love to watch people in a problem solving state of mind.

[@tailsprower9542]

keep up the good work MJD i cant wait to see more of your videos as i enjoy watching them, and watching what you do because i learn a lot from your videos. And its always cool to see whats going to happen in each episode especially this one tbh i have never seen so many adapters at once just to complete one task. Cant wait to see your next video thanks for the great videos i like to watch them before i fall asleep :)

[@stephanieiwaniuk6088]

I love how Eddy reliable trustman is always in your videos!

[@boyankarshakov2576]

The best such experiment I've done is when I installed Windows 2000 Pro SP4 on my Dad's old busted HP laptop which came with Windows Vista. Just when I start to think that's pretty impressive, I see this video... Well done, keep these going!

[@mndlessdrwer]

Seeing XP running is making me nostalgic for it again. It is the one operating system that I legitimately miss.

[@BeginningTry3200]

The boot MGR, recovery, target disk mode, And diagnostics are likely stored in the BIOS as you can erase the hard drive and still have access to these on a normal MacBook. This also means that they will not be accessible on an Apple TV, meeting it will just boot off of the hard drive every single time. Hope this was useful!

[@casualbedrecordings]

hi mjd, consider taking alook into the hackintosh scene. loads of useful tools for booting there. in general macs only can read the efi files from a fat32 partition. thats where the EFI folder has to sit. love you content an enjoy your work

[@iannicolson]

Yeah I believe the EFI boot partition *must* always be formatted in FAT32. Its the case on every EFI system: Windows 11 on x86-64 and ARM64, macOS, Linux, even Windows XP 64-Bit Edition on Itanium hardware.

[@KiraSlith]

Yeah, but a hackintosh booting XP/7/10 through Clover or OpenCore isn't all that interesting. It's basically a regular PC booting regular Windows, just in a roundabout way. It's just about doing something oddball for fun.

[@casualbedrecordings]

@@KiraSlith jep, but for the initial boot process and for loading the necessary efi files clover IST great. If clover runs mjds problem could be solved

[@monkeyman767]

My god, hearing about rEFIt just brough back so many memories of college and trying to get my 17" MBP to boot windows, linux and OSX. I have no idea why I decided to do that but I did.

[@RowanBird779]

I got Windows 7 running on my early-2006 iMac with rEFIt once, it had a bad disk drive and wouldn't except USB drives

[@georgeh6856]

Interesting video. I think it is the firmware too. You are trying to make the Apple TV into a general purpose computer when it was not designed to be that. I think you would have to write new firmware for it. Also, when you already have a MacOS command prompt open, just use the "passwd" command to change your user password. Much faster than going back to the GUI control panel.

[@andresbravo2003]

At least the “Does it run Windows XP?” Question didn’t even know if it works on Apple TV even needed to work via VM.

[@ashthornegaming5587]

I think it would make more sense to mount an image of Microsoft Virtual PC (Version 7) and use that, which installs a Windows XP virtual machine in OSX. It's aimed at PowerPC Macs, but might work with Rosetta (I'm not familiar with Macs, so that idea might not work)

[@iannicolson]

That would be emulating an x86 OS using PowerPC software, which is itself running in emulation on an x86 machine. The two layers of code translation would make the performance terrible. He might be able to run an x86 virtualisation program natively on the Apple TV, however. (e.g. VMware Fusion, VirtualBox)

[@katrinabryce]

No, Virtual PC doesn't work on Intel Macs. An old version of VMWare Fusion or Parallels might work though.

[@Celestner]

Ah. Its a good day when mjd uploads. Edit: Wtf 20 likes POG

[@Vitosi4ek1]

A 50-minute "Everything Goes Wrong" video, no less. These are always the true gems of this channel.

[@TheStarscouts]

Great video as always, the amount of time you invest into making these is impressive, keep it up because despite being long it's still fun to watch

[@gaast9548]

You know, maybe this video wasn't a banger because the project couldn't even get off the ground, but that's all the more reason to like and comment imo. You put so much effort into this and made it a fun ride regardless, so the least I can do is give some engagement.

[@wesbelthecollin]

oh no its the infamous "Everything Goes Wrong"

[@christopherdecorte1599]

You could try a push pin to allow the ide adapter to fit onto the ide header then make sure the hdd and DVD drives are set properly master slave cable select. Also set both the hdd and dvd on the same cable instead of trying the usb route since the usb seems disabled on boot which would make sense being an apple device.

[@Iandonutguy]

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[@Iandonutguy]

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[@angheloemanuel1660]

​@@Iandonutguy Wth is your translation?

[@gatto_furry]

​@@angheloemanuel1660the long jibberish is the Reply ID, youtube comment translatons break that sometimes

[@LightTheUnicorn]

My assumption here is that that the AppleTV firmware is looking for a specific EFI application, it’s clearly a very cut down EFI from what’s on a typical Intel Mac. Just a guess, but I think for any chance you’d either need to write an NVRAM/EFI setting from a booted copy of OS X, or have an XP/rEFInd modified loader like what’s used in the Leopard image.

[@DistrosProjects]

Your assumption is correct. In order to boot XP you would need to load a fake “mach_kernel” binary that pretended to be a macOS (the Apple TV OS is essentially macos) kernel but was actually windows. This has been done with linux but never with windows since linux and macos share far more in common than linux and windows.

[@ashii_ii]

@@DistrosProjects and since Windows and its kernel is closed source so we might not know much abt it to work with it ig

[@thomaspalmer9628]

Watching your "everything goes wrong" videos while trying (and failing) to fix my own broken setup is...somehow helping me feel better

[@MagnumForce51]

As I recall Windows 7 did have UEFI support. But they only did that with the 64-bit build. It's not a thing for the 32 bit version of the OS and wasn't available as x86 until Windows 8.

[@strawberrylemonadelioness]

Even when things go wrong, it's still fun to watch!

[@philtkaswahl2124]

Me: "Man, the last few Michael MJD videos seemed to have gone off pretty hitchless-" Most Recent Vid Title: Installing Windows XP on an Apple TV _but Everything Goes Wrong..._ Me: "Ah, there it is."

[@gorjvn]

I love the way you did the recap, i skipped the video and i knew everything that happened because of the recap. Instantly subscribed!

[@Baylough.Technologies]

Awesome content as always brother! So much work goes into these videos❤ Thank you!

[@fdolbec123]

The Computer Clan would be proud of you, with your conversion technology! 😁

[@phr3dmcc0y]

I love these. Im curious tho: Have you thought about trying a third party virtual machine? Something that starts the Mac OS, but only has the boot up info, then launches a virtual PC and loads windows

[@crashbandicoot4everr]

In case you change the version string in the plist and screw your machine up: Boot into single-user mode by holding down Command+S, type /sbin/mount -uw / to mount the filesystem as read/write, type nano /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist, edit the file (insert the correct version number), exit nano and then type exit to continue booting into OS X. That should take care of this...

[@imark7777777]

I have indeed used a 44pin IDE to 40pin IDE adapter in reverse (very similar to the first one). I don't remember what it was for but it did work. it's just a passive adapter the hardest part is maintaining pin compatibility as the keying the missing pin is either there or not they're. And there's usually no marking as to what pin 1 is. I'm assuming they borrowed from laptop design and the IDE channel could support two drives?

[@jjjacer]

@48:00 you mentioned not having an older intel mac. I do have a 2006 mac mini that was fully upgraded (core duo to core 2 duo upgrade, and max ram upgrade, along with SSD) that i could send to you. i replaced it with a 2014 mac mini for having a modern OS mac sitting on my network.

[@rallias1]

So, theory. When you created the EFI folder in the C:\ folder, was that an NTFS filesystem or a FAT32 filesystem? I wonder if you could make a GPT-formatted drive, partition 0 being a FAT32-formatted partition labelled for EFI boot, partition 1 being NTFS, and putting the EFI files in the partition 0.

[@ValasubbuGovindan]

That may work as that was the partioning done in Windows Longhorn

[@OmegaWolf]

Thankyou for this, I struggling with getting my new purchase of a windows xp laptop to boot, im not the only one suffering.

[@cloneowen]

Installing Windows 11 on Apple TV

[@MarikSnimaet]

Try this: Find a tutorial on how to disable the firmware Boot on a computer with the apple tv Hardware Then do the (maybe rEFIt) Installation

[@mewity]

disable the thing that makes the computer work, fucking genius

[@MarikSnimaet]

@@mewity 🤫🧏

[@blog.daLuna]

I know, youtube just recommended this video to you now

[@skylerric3]

Nope, I was on his channel

[@ElShotte]

16:03 - Yeah it seems as if the Apple TV firmware wasn't programmed for the same shortcuts Intel Macs were. The solution to that would've been to go to System Preferences > Startup Disk. If the OSX CD wasn't showing up here, then it wasn't considered "bootable" (this might be because certain OSX builds were modified for hackintoshes)

[@justinhinson6504]

Great content Micheal!!! Been watching for years!!! I was wondering, do you think this thing could boot Mac OS Sorbet Leopard? That would be cool if it could!!!

[@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays]

I love the Frankensteining of the connectors, reminds me of so many repair efforts I've done.

[@jaydenridley4]

1: the Apple TV can boot USB (that is its first boot priority if it can detect a bootable EFI/UEFI drive, this can be seen with some Apple TV Linux videos like the 8-bit guy. 2. Would it be possible to install Windows 7 (with a UEFI USB (those are different from regular Rufus USB with UEFI!!)) or windows 8 with its stock USB EFI drive *without* using BootCamp? My Mac runs windows server 2019 without bootcamp assistant, only the drivers.

[@CarlosSMOfficial]

Unfortunately Windows 7 doesn't support 32 bit EFI booting

[@MichaelMJD]

Ah yeah I did forget about that. It is definitely able to boot to those Linux distros if you put them on a USB drive. What's interesting is I wasn't able to get it to boot from the internal drive when it was plugged in via USB. Not sure about using Windows 8 though.

[@DistrosProjects]

@@MichaelMJD The way that Linux works is that the TV thinks it's booting into the Apple TV OS (since it boots using the stock boot.efi file, which is the only one that the TV's firmware can boot from) but uses a fake Mac OS X (Apple TV OS, but there's no practical difference) kernel ("mach_kernel") that contains a standard Linux kernel. In order to boot Windows XP, you'd need to wrap an XP kernel (or something to load one) into a mach_kernel file, which would require a significant amount of programming knowledge.

[@MichaelMJD]

@@DistrosProjects That makes sense, thanks for the info!

[@ValasubbuGovindan]

Michael, you should try that... I have seen this video 5 times and I saw this comment and the correction on top in the cards section. If it is possible, like to mock the kernel, then I guess you should try it. I know that you have a lot of other work and video plans but I would like to see the followup on this video. Waiting for the USB boot up on the Apple TV first generation.. 😂😂 To the Apple TV 😂😂 You better not show that freaking question mark above the Apple TV logo !!! I hate Michael being sad !!

[@MrAlan1828]

There is an ultimate way to do a WinXp install: 1st connect the 44pin laptop hdd to a Mac or PC, Boot from the WinXp sp2 Disc and do the regular installation best is Fat32 if not NTSF. Let it do the inital installation, when it reboots turn off immedaitely. UNplug the HDD and put it back into the AppleTV and let it boot, it will continue to install XP as it doesn't require the CD anymore. I did this to all my imacs, MacPros and Apple TV too. My Apply TV currently runs Batocera 34 with Old Desktop/Laptop with a 32bit CPU (x86) image on a SD2IDE adaptor on a 256GB MicroSD ;)

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[@official_kex]

35:08 That "Welcome back once again..." finally killed me hahahaha

[@thefoxguy]

"Mom, can we have Apple TV" "We have Apple TV at home" Apple TV at home:

[@tinyreelservicesinternatio575]

THiS !!! Now you gave me (even more) ideas for my channel ! Thank you so much ! :D

[@danielrsv88]

Try Clover, OpenCore or the old chameleon Bootloader

[@MissingProYT69]

It's been a year and a day since you've uploaded this video... GGs, @MichaelMJD

[@superusr]

It's so much fun watching someone screwing around this to breach all the barriers :D

[@TyTytheCat2004]

Why not do.. rEFInd instead of rEFIt? it's a fork of rEFIt, and much more modern and compatible. I'm hoping you'll revisit and try rEFInd, i mean it works on the latest Intel Macs and standard UEFI PCs.

[@jerrybumblebottom]

I have no idea about what you’re talking about but I love the videos 💙💙

[@UltimusShadow.]

Fun channel you've got here, SUBBED!

[@MichaelMJD]

Thank you!

[@amethystsimp]

This is the most "why?"video I've seen of yours and I'm loving it keep it up

[@CayoEnrico]

Before seeing the ''but Everything Goes Wrong'' text in the title, I already knew this was a bad idea..

[@crystalsheep1434]

41:47 this is the right amount of adapters correction 44:38 this is the right amount of adapters

[@kmemz]

Is it possible you could edit the .efi file to report itself as an OS10 boot image even though it's actually an XP EFI or rEFIt? I dunno, seems worth checking it out in a hex editor.

[@DistrosProjects]

If you edit the EFI file the TV won’t boot at all, since the TV verifies the file at boot using hashes. The only way that XP could boot is if an XP loader was hacked into a Mach kernel file.

[@trialbyfire4188]

This was absurd and over the top with adapters……… and I love it!😂

[@linusgsebastian]

But can you install tvOS on an old Mac mini?

[@duartesilva29]

that actually sounds more useful than this lmao

[@TheRealEstate]

I latterly Exclaimed “Oh my GOSH! When I heard the Nero burn bit. Wow, It’s been a while, lol!!

[@EnriqueMcQuade]

Can you also install Linux on an Apple TV?

[@peanut2063]

yes

[@MissingProYT69]

School tech support: Have you restarted your "Apple TV"?

[@JohnCremboz]

Going out on a limb here possibly: what would happen if you put a different bootloader in between ( thinking about GRUB - as it boots Linux and Mac OS can dual boot with GRUB)? Could that connect the dots? I'm not quite familiar with Apple hardware, but I've spent many a night tinkering. I could be wrong, but you never know...

[@justchris5585]

ah yes the limb

[@doorknob60]

That's what rEFIt is, an alternative bootloader like GRUB. Unfortunately the Apple TV doesn't seem to want to boot off it as is. Since the Apple TV is probably looking for a specific OS and won't boot off anything else.

[@JohnCremboz]

@@doorknob60 Thanks for clarifying! I read somewhere in this comment section that the Apple TV can boot Linux. That's why I was suggesting trying GRUB as a bootloader. About the Apple TV looking for a specific OS: would that be hardcoded into BIOS then? So, reflashing custom BIOS to jailbreak? Sorry for the many questions. This kind of tinkering really fascinates me.

[@tomhekker]

All DVD drives with the official DVD logo on them can read dual layer dvd’s. Writing to a dual layer DVD came later, totally different thing.

[@thefoxguy]

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[@marsJannLUA]

thanks

[@TDGalea]

yeet

[@memediatek]

Thanks. Windows XP ftw

[@lollo3245]

Thanks m8

[@s0meone1252]

Thanks mate

[@shibolinemress8913]

I love these videos because no matter how much goes wrong, we still learn something. Thank you so much! ❤😊

[@alwaystrue]

Who's watching in 2024

[@foxy266]

Me

[@matticolo]

44:41 this amount of cables is hilarious 😂

[@757Aviation.]

Claim ticket for late only allowing 1000 likes 👇

[@2ktyp]

thunfisch

[@Mmmm_tea]

I love the lengths you goto to try make this work but its clear apple don't want you messing with their stuff

[@thefoxguy]

UwUntu on it when?

[@thefoxguy]

Hehe

[@forcetimer71]

bro 😭😭😭

[@EthanRDoesMC_]

44:40 I could hear Ken saying “conversion technology” in my head

[@mattelder1971]

All DVD drives can READ dual layer DVDs (since many or even most commercial movie DVDs are dual layer), but only certain ones can WRITE dual layer DVDs. If it didn't work on the DVD drive in the Win98 PC, it wasn't going to work at all.

[@tlhIngan]

The gen1 appletv supports usb booting. However to boot from usb requires a usb storage device with a special partition GUID that the appletv recognizes. This was used to hack appletv without needing to open the case. You used to be able to run a mac program to create this usb stick which formatted the usb stick and installed OS X on it, which then installed a bunch of utilities that hacked the appletv in service mode. It is possible, it just requires a little work. It is possible to install regular Macos this way

[@MstanhopeTX]

Great persistence Mike!

[@LRFLEW]

I think you're conclusion at the end is accurate. Intel macs actually had three ways it could boot from a device: legacy BIOS (using an MBR boot sector), EFI bootloader (the .efi files, usually in that first FAT32 EFI partition), and loading the macOS kernel directly from an HFS+ partition. Since Apple almost certainly expected the device to only ever boot from its macOS derived OS on the internal drive, it makes sense that it would have a very stripped-down firmware with only support for the one type of boot. You might be able to get this to work if you make a rEFInd/rEFIt build that mimics a macOS kernel, but that would require a lot of development work.

[@patricktrakzel9657]

Michael, with a needle you can get the piece of plastic out of the adapter or cable if you need to. Or heat up a nail ( use pliers in order to not burn your fingers ), put it in the plastic plug, let it cool down, and pull it out. No need for more hardware.

[@blainepalmerza]

Awesome video, Michael!

[@Alex-xs5hf]

I love your videos i hope one day you get to 1 million subscribers keep up the good work man i really love your content 😁❤

[@slimes1319]

It's always something like this, had something similar happening to me when I tried to change the OS of a chromebook years ago

[@jwolfeshelton4360]

Dude! I am loving this I used to do shit like this all the time! It was fun! Of course as I have grown old my eyesight is not very good anymore and I just don't have the energy I used to and my income has improved so needless to say my hobbies have skewed to align with who I am now. Thank you for posting this I am going to subscribe. At my peak with aid from a controlled substance I will not specify. I remember soldering a PC IDE cable to a laptop hdd (needless to say my eyesight was far better) It worked perfectly. I modified old server cases to fit new Mainboards... to many insane projects to name. thank you for this so much fun to watch. BTW the sound of an old 3ft tall solid steel server tower with a 32x CDROM spinning up! I would laugh every time!

[@RetroGamerOG_]

When I read the title it reminded me of the uh oh video in your extras channel

[@stevieg_306]

The AplTV shouldn't care about whether the drive is powered on before booting the ATV so it will already have enough time to load the disc and all that (I'm going from using drives in this manner with PC hardware) and even with a power off the disc will be 'loaded' in the drive just the host (PC/ATV) will send the command to read the disc when/if it wants to. If the ATV is using Cable Select (CS) to ID the drives using CS the furthest device from host connector will be master and the closest will be slave (you can set the DVD drive to slave to be sure of this with the pin jumpers), IDE usually can support 2 devices per cable (again PC architecture) but this is a possibility to boot and make this project work. Another thing is that pin 20 (key pin) on a 44 or 40 pin cable is a no connect so you could also potentially break that off the MOBO of the ATV and use a 44 to 40 pin adapter to connect a regular 40 pin cable to the DVD drive then a 40 to 44 pin adapter for the HDD with external power. Hope this helps

[@elektrokinesis4150]

The fat32 partition is an EFI System partition, that contains the bootloader. The firmware is not capable of reading NTFS formatted volumes so the XP installation failed to boot. It should be possible to get XOM working by manually putting it on the EFI System Partition and installing XP to a second NTFS Partition. Also I am not sure if the drive in the AppleTV is a GPT partition table or MBR, but your xp drive needs to match that setup.

[@Notevenmad955]

On macs it actually doesn’t even less so on the Apple TV. The Mac firmware will always look for HFS/APFS partitions for the file System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi or whatever file was blessed/selected in Startup Manager. However the reason why refit and xom doesn’t work is because the Apple TV implements a rudimentary checksum check for the bootloader. Since the boot loader only loads the macOS kernel and driver cache with no additional checks regular macOS and linux can be coerced into running. Probably if someone ports the ReactOS loader to run on the AppleTV XP might be possible to run but you will need a lot of workarounds since Windows versions before 8 still rely on legacy BIOS being present even in UEFI mode

[@saishinkar]

Bro you tried your best and I understand the pain of all went wrong

[@zach_c]

I was not expecting to see Latitude D610 and $5 98PC cameos on this video lol

[@pyrielrising4338]

Thank You...By the end I was rolling on the floor.😊

[@HunterLexus]

Just to add insult to injury, I believe you have to have the Apple TV remote and press play/pause, and menu button at the same time on start up to boot from a USB drive.