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Anyone? I hoped rockbox developers could help me Then tell me how I can reach the flash memory of the iPod and modify that with PC.I know nothing about the working of iPods it would be easier if you shared your knowledge.Thanks.
The Ipod bootloader. The Ipod bootloader is the program that tells your player how to load and start the original firmware. It is also responsible for any emergency, recovery, or disk modes on your player. This bootloader is stored in special flash memory in your Ipod and comes factory-installed. It is not necessary to modify this in order to install Rockbox.
Instructions 1. Back up the Apple firmware! Run ipodpatcher -rf apple_os.ipod and save the file apple_os.ipod somewhere safe. You can restore this later with ipodpatcher -wf apple_os.ipod if something goes wrong. 2. Unzip your Rockbox build to .rockbox on the ipod as usual. 3. Place a copy of apple_os.ipod in the .rockbox directory (this enables dual booting). 4. Install the Rockbox bootloader to the OSOS image with ipodpatcher -wf bootloader-youripodmodel.ipod 5. Reboot the ipod. Dual booting should function as before, but Rockbox should load faster.
(the apple flashrom code has already loaded the OSOS image into ram, so the state of the disk is irrelevant, it should always be able to run it)
That's not the standard installation method, but dual booting should work fine; if turning the hold switch on immediately after poweron doesn't start the original firmware then you have done something wrong. Try powering on by pressing and holding MENU, also (this should also trigger booting the OF).
Also, er, what do you mean the size of the code on the bad part of the disk will be smaller? Wasn't the entire point of this to move the data entirely out of the bad part? I don't understand what you've done, in that case..
And I think you misunderstood me; the flash bootloader loads OSOS into ram on poweron, whether OSOS contains the OF, or Rockbox, or the Rockbox bootloader, or a combination of them. If you erase the disk there, it won't be able to load anything and the OF will not boot; if the OF still boots after you erase the partition then you can't be erasing it right
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