Ok, I'm gonna run through it again, and document EVERYTHING.
I am following the instructions at
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IpodConversionToFAT32I have a 5th Gen iPod Video and Mac OS X.
The iPod has been restored with iTunes, but has no media on it. It is set to not open iTunes when the iPod attaches, and has disk use enabled.
I used ipodpatcher to find the byte-sector size:
[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[INFO] Read XML info (9694 bytes)
[INFO] Ipod found - Video (aka 5th Generation) ("macpod") - /dev/disk1
[INFO] Reading partition table from /dev/disk1
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[INFO] Part Start Sector End Sector Size (MB) Type
[INFO] 0 63 131134 64.0 Empty (0x00)
[INFO] 1 131136 58605111 28551.7 HFS/HFS+ (0xffff)
[INFO] Read XML info (9694 bytes)
[INFO] Ipod model: Video (aka 5th Generation) (32MB RAM) ("macpod")
[INFO] ************************************************************************
[INFO] *** WARNING FOR ROCKBOX USERS
[INFO] *** You must convert this ipod to FAT32 format (aka a "winpod")
[INFO] *** if you want to run Rockbox. Rockbox WILL NOT work on this ipod.
[INFO] *** See
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodConversionToFAT32[INFO] ************************************************************************
Enter i to install the Rockbox bootloader, u to uninstall
or c to cancel and do nothing (i/u/c) :c
Press ENTER to exit ipodpatcher :ENTER
logout
I download the 512-byte sector mbr file called mbr-video30gb.bin from
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IpodConversionToFAT32I use Terminal to navigate to the location where I stored the mbr (I have omitted most of the files in the folder for simplicity:
Blakes-Computer-4:~ kibblesnbits$ cd /Applications
Blakes-Computer-4:Applications kibblesnbits$ ls
mbr-video30gb.bin
Then I unmount the iPod and run dd if=mbr-xxxx.bin of=/dev/diskN, where xxxx is the name of the mbr and diskN is the disk name of the iPod, found using Disk Utility:
Blakes-Computer-4:Applications kibblesnbits$ dd if=mbr-video30gb.bin of=/dev/disk1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes transferred in 0.032464 secs (15771 bytes/sec)
Now I use Disk Utility, select the disk called "30.01 GB Apple iPod Media," select Erase, use the drop-down menu to select "MS-DOS (FAT)," rename it IPOD, and hit Erase. Here is Disk Utility's log:
2011-08-17 12:14:23 -0700:
Name : Apple iPod Media
Type : Disk
Partition Map Scheme : Apple Partition Map
Disk Identifier : disk1
Media Name : Apple iPod Media
Media Type : iPod
Connection Bus : USB
USB Serial Number : 000A270014EEF960
Device Tree : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/USB7@1D,7
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : Yes
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
Location : External
Total Capacity : 30.01 GB (30,005,821,440 Bytes)
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 0
2011-08-17 12:15:03 -0700: Unmount of “IPOD†succeeded
2011-08-17 12:18:04 -0700: Preparing to erase : “IPODâ€
2011-08-17 12:18:04 -0700: Partition Scheme: Master Boot Record
2011-08-17 12:18:04 -0700: 1 volume will be created
2011-08-17 12:18:04 -0700: Name : “IPODâ€
2011-08-17 12:18:04 -0700: Size : 30.01 GB
2011-08-17 12:18:04 -0700: Filesystem : MS-DOS (FAT)
2011-08-17 12:18:04 -0700: Unmounting disk
2011-08-17 12:18:06 -0700: Creating partition map
2011-08-17 12:18:07 -0700: Waiting for disks to reappear
2011-08-17 12:18:07 -0700: Formatting disk1s1 as MS-DOS (FAT) with name IPOD
2011-08-17 12:18:07 -0700: 512 bytes per physical sector
/dev/rdisk1s1: 58576416 sectors in 1830513 FAT32 clusters (16384 bytes/cluster)
bps=512 spc=32 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf0 spt=32 hds=255 hid=0 bsec=58605057 bspf=14301 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=6
2011-08-17 12:18:07 -0700: Mounting disk
2011-08-17 12:18:08 -0700: Erase complete.
2011-08-17 12:18:08 -0700:
Now, I check the format of the disk, and Disk Utility says FAT32.
Now, I'm going to follow the instructions found at
http://download.rockbox.org/daily/manual/rockbox-ipodvideo/rockbox-buildch2.html#x4-60002I quit iTunes and open Rockbox. I click change to change the device and hit AutoDetect; it says "Could not detect a device.
Select your device and Mountpoint manually."
I browse to Volumes/IPOD and select Ipod Video (5th gen) (Stable) and click Ok.
I click Complete Installation and click OK.
The Progress Box says "Error reading partition table - possibly not an Ipod"
And I'm done.