Ipod video 64Mb?

[y2kcpi1]

Have you had any luck y2kcpi1?

I am still getting the cannot find rockbox.ipod error no matter what build I use whether rockbox.ipod is in the root or the .rockbox folder.

I have checked and double checked my bootloader as version 1.1 both with the ipodpatcher program and one I built from source.

I did format my iPod using the mbr files from the IpodFat32 wiki, but I am relatively sure that is correct since ipodpatcher and iTunes both report it as a winpod with 2048mb sectors.

(I think my next step may be to try to install windows on my mac and go from there. That is the EXTREMELY long method)

Thanx man,

but do i nede to reformat my ipod )i don't know what to do there's no manual out there)
could someone please make a good and easy manual for the ipod video 64mb 80gb ipod
thanx

Cheers,
Ben.

[Febs]

i don't know what to do there's no manual out there)
could someone please make a good and easy manual for the ipod video 64mb 80gb ipod

http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-ipodvideo/rockbox-build.html

[knight4led]

You shouldn't need to reformat if your iPod was connected to a PC first.

I had to reformat because Rockbox only recognizes players with a FAT32 partition, and since I am on a Mac, my iPod defaulted to HFS+. I never bothered to worry about that difference until it was anounced that iPod 80gig support came to Rockbox.

If you are unsure which partition type your iPod has, connect it to your computer and run ipodpatcher. When the screen comes up with all the info it should identify it as a winpod

[GodEater]

I'm still not certain what folder structure you're using y2kcpi1 - saying "everything in the .rockbox folder" doesn't actually tell me much.

I've installed my 80GB from linux - it's not tricky, just follow the instructions in the manual. If you feel the instructions in the manual as they stand are hard to follow - please outline which bits need clarification, and I'll try to help out.

For anyone who's having trouble, your ipod should look like this post Rockbox install :

/mount/point/for/ipod/Calendar
/mount/point/for/ipod/Contacts
/mount/point/for/ipod/.rockbox
/mount/point/for/ipod/iPod_Control
/mount/point/for/ipod/Notes
/mount/point/for/ipod/.rockbox

Obviously the "/mount/point/for/ipod/" will be based on your own system's settings (mine is actually /mnt/ipod for example).

The .rockbox folder there should contain the rockbox.ipod file, and a bunch of other subdirectories :

/mount/point/for/ipod/.rockbox/backdrops
/mount/point/for/ipod/.rockbox/codecs
/mount/point/for/ipod/.rockbox/codepages
/mount/point/for/ipod/.rockbox/docs
/mount/point/for/ipod/.rockbox/eqs
/mount/point/for/ipod/.rockbox/fonts
/mount/point/for/ipod/.rockbox/icons
/mount/point/for/ipod/.rockbox/langs
/mount/point/for/ipod/.rockbox/rocks
/mount/point/for/ipod/.rockbox/themes
/mount/point/for/ipod/.rockbox/viewers
/mount/point/for/ipod/.rockbox/wps

If you folder structure DOESN'T look like this, then you've done the install wrong.

[y2kcpi1]

i installed it okay (i think) i extracted the .rockbox folder to the root of the ipod and it puts the rockbox.ipod file in the .rockbox folder, so i don't think i am doing anything wrong it's a fat32 formatted hard drive,
thanx

Cheers,
Ben.

[GodEater]

Can you do the following :

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fdisk -l /dev/your_ipod_device


where your_ipod_device is the device file of your ipod on your system (for example on mine it's sdb),
and paste the output here.

Then do :

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ls -l /your/ipod/mount/point


where /your/ipod/mount/point is where the contents of your ipod appears on your system (again, /mnt/ipod on mine), and again paste the output here.

[y2kcpi1]

i'm using windows

Cheers,
Ben.

[GodEater]

Okay, in that case, can you just give me the output of "dir" run on your ipod drive ?

[y2kcpi1]

M:\>dir
 Volume in drive M is SRULLY'S IP
 Volume Serial Number is 45C1-F6CD

 Directory of M:\

02/01/2007  03:21 PM    < DIR>          Contacts
02/01/2007  03:21 PM    < DIR>          Calendars
02/01/2007  03:21 PM    < DIR>          Notes
02/01/2007  05:15 AM    < DIR>          .rockbox
02/07/2007  06:25 PM    < DIR>          Books
03/20/2007  02:11 PM    < DIR>          Photos
03/20/2007  06:29 PM    < DIR>          Recordings
04/20/2007  01:39 PM    < DIR>          nes
05/12/2007  10:58 PM    < DIR>          SharePod
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               9 Dir(s)  17,076,453,376 bytes free

M:\>

(edited for formatting)

[GodEater]

and another one of M:\.rockbox please ?

[knight4led]

With regards to my particular problem, when formatting my iPod I had the idea that perhaps it wasn't formatting the FAT32 partition with 2048byte sectors so I tried adding the -S 2048 modifier when running the newfs_msdos command to get

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newfs_msdos -F32 -S 2048 -v iPod /dev/rdisk1s2
which showed the drive as a FAT32 partititon and ipodpatcher reported it with sector size of 2048, just as it was in all previous attempts.

Still no luck though. I still get the could not locate rockbox.ipod. If you want I can post an ls of my directory stucture here as well.

EDIT: Here are the ls -a outputs for the root of my iPod and the .rockbox folder immediately after a fresh format and bootloader. Everything seems to be in order, except I still get the rockbox.ipod error.

carl-slomowitzs-computer:/Volumes/KASHI Carlos$ ls -a
.                       .VolumeIcon.icns        ._rockbox.zip
..                      ._.Trashes              .rockbox
.DS_Store               ._.VolumeIcon.icns      iPod_Control
.Spotlight-V100         ._iPod_Control          rockbox-fonts.zip
.Trashes                ._rockbox-fonts.zip     rockbox.zip

carl-slomowitzs-computer:/Volumes/KASHI/.rockbox Carlos$ ls -a
.                       fonts                   tagnavi.config
..                      icons                   themes
backdrops               langs                   viewers
codecs                  recpresets              viewers.config
codepages               rockbox-info.txt        wps
docs                    rockbox.ipod
eqs                     rocks

[GodEater]

This is very odd indeed.

You must be using the right bootloader, otherwise you'd get the "No partitions found" error.

Could you try copying rockbox.ipod into the root of the ipod and see if that helps ?

[GodEater]

M:\>dir
 Volume in drive M is SRULLY'S IP
 Volume Serial Number is 45C1-F6CD
(edited for formatting) 

I note from your forum profile that you consider yourself an iPod modder.

What else have you done to your iPod besides trying to install Rockbox on it ?

[Der Papst]

Afaik has mkfs a bug when creating filesystems with larger sector sizes than 512bytes.  This was also reported on 30GB 5.5G iPods a while back. And the solution to that problem was reformating the iPod in windows  .

[GodEater]

In light of that information, a discussion is currently underway in the IRC channel about possible solutions to this issue.