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ledhed2222:
To my knowledge, I did everything I was supposed to do.  However, I get this message when I boot up my iPod:

Loading Rockbox...
Error!
Can't load rockbox.ipod:
File not found

Despite my iPod's inability to find the file, I did nothing except unzip it straight onto the iPod.  This is what I did, I am running OSX 10.4.9:

First I reformatted the iPod to FAT32 by restoring it on Windows.
Plugged iPod back into Mac.
Next I unzipped Rockbox and the Font package onto my iPod.
(No, I didn't rename the file, I even manually named it /.rockbox).
I unmounted my iPod through DiskUtility.
I ran the bootloader.
I ejected my iPod.

Am I missing something here????  I couldn't have followed the directions more explicitly.  I'm more annoyed than anything else right now!!

Llorean:
What exactly did you do when you "manually named it /.rockbox"?

That sounds like an extra step not in the directions to me. What folder, exactly, shows in the root of your iPod, and what files are in that folder?

ledhed2222:
Well first I simply extracted it, without renaming it.  The extracted files showed up as a folder in iPod named "rockbox".  When Rockbox wouldn't run, I remembered that the folder was supposed to be named "/.rockbox" so I tried renaming it that.  That didn't work either.  I tried naming it ".rockbox" but OSX wouldn't let me.  No matter what I named the folder, no files ever showed up in it.  I extracted the .zip using a program called Zipeg (after Stuffit wouldn't work) to the following directory: /Volumes/THE MASTER  (THE MASTER is my iPod's name).

Llorean:
If it created a folder called "rockbox" instead of ".rockbox", then your zip program is creating a folder named after the zip file. Some zip programs have this as the default behaviour, though it goes against the usual expectation from an archive utility. The fact that you saw no files in the "rockbox" folder was because files starting with a period are often considered hidden in OSX, and the "rockbox" folder had the proper ".rockbox" folder in it.

Until you can resolve the issues you're having with extraction and get the proper ".rockbox" folder into the root of your player, Rockbox is not going to work.

ledhed2222:
Thanks a lot! What is a good extractor to use?

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