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Ipod 2G (20GB) Installation of ipodpatcher failed. Firewire?
etien:
Hi there
As there isn't a specific thread yet for Ipod 2G, I thought Hardware was the most likely issue (or rather, the second most likely after end-useritis).
Following a successful install of RB to an Ipod Photo, I have convinced my bro to give it a try on his trusty old 2G. Now these, to the best of my knowledge only ever came in Firewire flavour.
I've restored the software to Windows/FAT32 with the Macbook Pro running Windows, unzipped the build to root, but although the computer sees the ipod fine, after unmounting the drive (not ejecting) and launching ipodpatcher I get an error message:
[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[ERR] No ipods found, aborting
[ERR] Please connect your ipod and ensure it is in disk mode
[ERR] Also ensure that itunes is closed, and that your ipod is not mounted.
[ERR] Please refer to the Rockbox manual if you continue to have problems.
I have tried resetting and starting in disk mode, same message.
As Firewire To USB Adapters don't exist, I was curious as to how the devs had managed to get this to work!
Thanks a lot
LambdaCalculus:
You could have posted this to the Apple Installation/Removal topic, since you are asking an installation question.
That is a stumper, though. I was always wondering this, myself.
bluebrother:
I'm pretty sure the ipodpatcher binary hasn't been updated yet -- i.e. if you want to install the bootloader you need to build ipodpatcher from svn yourself.
linuxstb:
--- Quote from: bluebrother on August 17, 2007, 01:19:23 AM ---I'm pretty sure the ipodpatcher binary hasn't been updated yet -- i.e. if you want to install the bootloader you need to build ipodpatcher from svn yourself.
--- End quote ---
That's exactly the problem - there is no official bootloader released for the 2G yet, and the current release version of ipodpatcher won't recognise the 2G either.
You'll need to either wait until the 2G port is officially available, or build ipodpatcher and the bootloader yourself from SVN.
etien:
I was afraid I was gonna get this answer ;D
My knowledge in code stops at a few VBA macros for Excel, so I'm going to have to let the big guns get on with it and be patient!
Let it be known I've got a 2G ready to welcome and test Rockbox when there's a bootloader on the go.
Cheers all
ps I didn't want to post in this section as the subtext specified which models should be discussed, and the 2G wasn't one of them. I thought you could argue that Firewire being the problem, and Firewire being both a hardware and software format, my question had its place in Hardware... Thanks for moving the topic ;)
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