[HOW-TO] Installing XBIAN directly on RASPBIAN IMG

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I'm using a raspberry pi B rev2 with the same raspbian image (2014-09-09) and it doesn't work for me too.
I followed the instructions (1st post) and get as far as step 2,
but when I try to perform step 3 my rpi refuses to boot.
I tried to fix this by copying the initramfs.gz file from xbian rc3 into the boot partition (this file was somehow missing), but although it started the fs-conversion it still wasn't able to complete it.