Hello Lloyd,

Just bidding on one on eBay, will report back :)

rqm

On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 01:45:17 +0000
Lloyd <ng2...@proton.me> wrote:

> Has anyone been successful booting OpenBSD on the 1st Generation
> Apple TV?
> 
> I'm not talking about the cigarette packet devices sold today.
> Rather, the original Apple TV was an Intel Pentium M device with 256
> MB RAM and internal IDE HDD. It was hobbled with a quirky EFI
> firmware that would only boot Apple's boot.efi bootloader. Years ago,
> some clever Linux folks discovered the Apple EFI loader would launch
> any Mach-O binary, so found a way to package a Linux kernel + initrd
> as such so that it would boot instead of the Darwin kernel.
> 
> Could a similar method be employed to boot OpenBSD or chain-load the
> OpenBSD EFI loader?
> 
> Regards
> Lloyd
> 

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