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Installation / Removal => Rockbox Utility => Topic started by: craigford on June 09, 2017, 09:22:32 AM
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hi ladies and gents
Im happy with rockbox so far been using it on my ipod classic 160gb for quite a while now,
is there a way to remove the dual boot with official firmware as it has no use to me and its kind of annoying when i accidentally load it up,
i read a post about a boot loader mks5lboot but i could not wrap my mind around how to use it to install it in single it without the dual boot
i would kind of need an idiots guide/ explain it like i'm 5 sort of thing, i'm not very good with command line stuff
my ipod shows up in my computer as
USB drive (E:) - not formated
craigs clas (G:) - 148GB
Also are there any tweaks to the settings i can make for some speed improvements as on occasion it will hang for a few seconds or freeze when changing song causing me to have to force reboot probably not helped by having 20600 songs or there abouts on it
thanks in advance craig
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Yo can install the bootloader in single mode, to do that:
- get the mks5lboot tool for you operating system, you can get a link for it at https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IpodClassicPort
- see the README file to learn how mks5lboot works (mainly enter DFU mode on iPod and run a command on your PC), actually the README file is at https://github.com/Rockbox/rockbox/blob/master/rbutil/mks5lboot/README
- if there is a bootloader installed on your iPod then uninstall it using this command "mks5lboot --bl-uninst ipod6g"
- to install the bootloader in single mode use this command "mks5lboot --bl-inst /path/to/bootloader-ipod6g.ipod --single"
You can get the current bootloader binary file from https://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/ipod/bootloader-ipod6g.ipod
Note that using single mode then you also lose access to Apple disk mode and Apple diagnostic screens.
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sorry i have not replied in a long time
just got around to doing it thanks for the instructions it was extremely easy
i open a powershell window in the RockboxBootloaderInstaller_iPodClassic_v1_0 folder, made it easier instead of typing in the directory to the firmware or the .exe,
i then just typed, mks5lboot64.exe --bl-inst bootloader-ipod6g.ipod --single Into powershell, this way i could skip typing the path to the boot loader since i some how mess up directory locations
i still have the E partition on the ipod that windows keeps asking me to format every time i plug it in but i can live with that my main annoyance was getting stuck in apple firmware when i used the hold switch after turning off my ipod,
i'm not sure where i would make the suggestion but when the ipod 6g becomes stable i think a check box to choose single or dual boot would be useful or possibly two installers what ever would be easiest to implement ( not saying coding is easy )
thanks for the help and info prof_wolfff