A patch has been released that enables the Apple TV to boot from its internal drive, but use an external USB drive as primary storage. The hack requires a ssh-enabled Apple TV, an Intel-based Mac or Unix system, an installed version of Mac OS X 10.4 for Intel, an original, unmodified copy of the ?mach_kernel.prelink? file from the Apple TV, and an external USB drive formatted using ?Journaled HFS+.? A system preference file?

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