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BootStrapPATALinuxInstall
This is the easiest partition method. There are no prep steps. You boot a CD installer using atv-bootloader, then install to the internal PATA disk over-writing everything on it. Make sure you backup your AppleTV so you can return to the factory AppleTV OS if desired.
You will need to make sure "com.apple.Boot.plist" on the recovery partition of the USB flash disk has the the atv-boot parameter of "auto"
<string>atv-boot=auto video=vesafb</string>
When "auto" is selected, atv-bootloader will search for a GRUB menu.lst and kexec boot the default kernel.
When the AppleTV is powered-on, Apple EFI firmware will look for a "Recovery" partition. It will find the one on the USB flash drive and boot atv-bootloader which then searches for valid GRUB menu.lst boot settings. Atv-bootloader will in turn use these boot settings to kexec boot that default kernel.
Unless otherwise noted, this is a reupload of the atv-bootloader Google Code Wiki when it was exported to GitHub. Credit to the original author davilla.