Problems with the 5th Gen Video 30 gig iPod (yes I've read the other posts)

[GarrettGoesBoom]

Alright, I just read about rockbox tonight and tried installing it on my 5th Gen 30gig Video iPod. I read the manual several times and followed it step by step. Of course, since its so easy, I have to get the error...

Rockbox boot loader
Version: 1.1
IPOD version: OxFFFFFFFF
TOSHIBA MK3008GAL
Partition 1: 0x0B 28521 MB
Loading Rockbox...
Error!                                 (Classic: I always love that great error message)
Can't load rockbox.ipod:
File not found
Hold MENU... and so forth...

If you ask if I zipped the files to the right place I clicked extract all and went to browse locations, went to my comp., went to th (F:) drive (my iPod), and clicked on the iPod control folder and extracted it there. When I was done it even had the .rockbox folder... what exactly is going on: the only things that i can think of is my battery being low, or the fact that i went and got the latest archived build and not the current one (im not sure where the zip thing is for those and i figured the latest archived builds would be reliable) thats it and thanks...

[GarrettGoesBoom]

and by the way... im using windows...

[Llorean]

They don't go in the ipod_control folder. They go in the root folder of the device.

This would be F:\

[AlexP]

Error!                                 (Classic: I always love that great error message)

What is wrong with that?  It tells you what the error is on the very next line

Error!                                 (Classic: I always love that great error message)
Can't load rockbox.ipod:
File not found

Which is as Llorean says because you did not read the install instructions correctly and extracted rockbox.zip to the wrong place.