Ok, I am just listening to the first song after a successful CF mod! A huge thanks to all developers and forum nerds of rockbox!
Here are a few details concerning newbie understanding (at first I also had a lot of questions which led to this thread and forum search shows that there are other people who don't fully understand the procedure described in the wiki - the order of my below hints is the order of procedure in the wiki) and the parts I used for the mod:
- Used parts are a iriver H120, a Sandisk Extreme 32 GB Compact Flash Card and the 50 pin CF adapter from dealextreme (Link in one of the posts above) + a new working original hdd Toshiba MK2004GAL (had to be formatted - windows asked automatically to do this after connecting via USB).
- Important information before you start: you must have a working original Toshiba HDD (MK2004GAL or MK2006GAL) if you have the original iriver firmware installed - so in my described case (see start thread post) I had to order a used one from ebay and was lucky that it worked. I think the only case you don't need one is if you already flashed rockbox to the player before (the firmware/OS is stored in flash which means - I think - on board/CPU instead of the disk. For the mod, rockbox has to be installed in flash and if you haven't done it before you need a hdd to get access to flash via disk.).
- Installing the latest current rockbox build can be easily done by following the instructions in the manual (see documentation at this homepage).
- Bootloader Flashing Procedure: download Bootloader version 7-pre4 (you find the link in the forums or at the homepage), it consists of the file "bootloader.iriver" -> this has to be copied to the player, f. e. to the .rockbox directory like I did. The rest of the instructions in the wiki is well clarified I think (for me it was).
- Flashing procedure: I flashed both RAM and ROM as should be done for CF mod I think. Flashing RAM: Don't overlook the hint of doing "RoLo" (Rockbox Loader) before continuing! Instructions at the link are pretty clear for H120. After this, flashing RAM and ROM is pretty straight forward (all the files already exist in the .rockbox folder). I set booting sequence to ROM.
- Then I copied the rockbox build from the downloaded .zip to the CF card via card reader.
- Then turned the device off, put it on hold and replaced the hdd with the adapter/CF (for my adapter, I had to cut away small plastic parts for perfect fit to the pins. Maybe also the jumper has to be cut down).
- Again, control if booting is on ROM and turn the unit on. It worked like a charm for me. I will look for a new battery now because the device is already opened.
Good luck for you all!