E250R "Load main image failed" after running install steps

[clutch]

I have  a 250R, it appears that I upgraded the bootloader okay since it still worked after I did it.  After I installed rockbox, I get "Load main image failed".

I've tried to reinstall the V1.0.12 PP5022.mi4 file to the 16MB partition in recovery mode, reboot, and I get that message again.  The next time I fired it up the file isn't in the 16MB partition.

Then I tried going to manufacturing mode and us e200tool recover BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom and upon reboot I get the same message.

Ideas please,

Thanks
Clutch

[LambdaCalculus]

e200R instructions are here:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SansaE200RInstallation

Were you following the instructions exactly as they're written?

[clutch]

I sure thought so.

Clutch

[LambdaCalculus]

"I sure thought so" isn't the same as "I followed them exactly". If you don't know what you're doing, then ask!

Since you borked your Sansa, read these pages for the recovery process:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SansaE200Unbrick

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SansaE200TroubleShooting

And please keep a mental note that we haven't posted an easier install process, so please wait until it's ready if you're not up to the task already laid out.

[chrisjs169]

From what it looks like, you didn't patch the bootloader (properly).  Either follow the steps exactly or follow the steps to recover your Sansa.

[John Brown]

I think you skipped the linux part like me  
like they said if you don't have linux you don't have rockbox.
so you have to wait.

[scorche]

No...we said a liveCD will work just fine.

[Febs]

I think you skipped the linus part like me  
like they said if you don't have linus you don't have rockbox.
so you have to wait.

Repeat after me:

L-I-N-U-X

[clutch]

From what it looks like, you didn't patch the bootloader (properly).  Either follow the steps exactly or follow the steps to recover your Sansa.

This is what I saw when I first tried to patch bootloader:

root@localhost sansa]# ./e200tool recover BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom
e200tool v0.2.3-alpha (c) by MrH 2006, 2007
Searching for device 0781:0720 ... found!
Initializing USB stub (4780 bytes) ... done!
Writing 'BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom' to address 0x10600000
Searching for device 6666:e200 ... 9 found!
Write at 0x1065fc38
Write done!
Running from address 0x10600000
Searching for device 6666:e200 ... found!
Execution started!
[root@localhost sansa]#    

The screen on my sansa alternated between
LUN0 locked
LUN0 unlocked
LUN0 locked
LUN0 unlocked
LUN0 locked
LUN0 unlocked
LUN0 locked
LUN0 unlocked

for a number of minutes.  Eventually I pulled the plug and battery on it and it booted normally on power up.  Was the above message normal?

I decided to do the boot loader install proceedure again from the start.  I have the same message rolling on screen now.  I have to go to work, I'll leave it looping until morning in this part of the world.

Thanks
Clutch

[chrisjs169]

From what it looks like, you didn't patch the bootloader (properly).  Either follow the steps exactly or follow the steps to recover your Sansa.

This is what I saw when I first tried to patch bootloader:

root@localhost sansa]# ./e200tool recover BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom
e200tool v0.2.3-alpha (c) by MrH 2006, 2007
Searching for device 0781:0720 ... found!
Initializing USB stub (4780 bytes) ... done!
Writing 'BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom' to address 0x10600000
Searching for device 6666:e200 ... 9 found!
Write at 0x1065fc38
Write done!
Running from address 0x10600000
Searching for device 6666:e200 ... found!
Execution started!
[root@localhost sansa]#    

Make sure you hold REC when booting.

The screen on my sansa alternated between
LUN0 locked
LUN0 unlocked
LUN0 locked
LUN0 unlocked
LUN0 locked
LUN0 unlocked
LUN0 locked
LUN0 unlocked

for a number of minutes.

This is considered normal.  Simply unmount the Sansa, and you can disconnect it.

Eventually I pulled the plug and battery on it and it booted normally on power up.

So you didn't give it time to write the bootloader...

I decided to do the boot loader install proceedure again from the start.  I have the same message rolling on screen now.  I have to go to work, I'll leave it looping until morning in this part of the world.

Thanks
Clutch

(cut and paste) This is considered normal.  Simply unmount the Sansa, and you can disconnect it.  It will keep 'looping' forever until you disconnect the Sansa.

[scorche]

I got that as well when I installed Rockbox for the first time.  It stopped when I mounted the device.

[clutch]

I got that as well when I installed Rockbox for the first time.  It stopped when I mounted the device.

The bit about the scrolling LUN0 lock, unlock might be nice to add to the current instructions.

That gave me confidence to try from scratch again.  

Now I get :

Rockbox boot loader
Version: 20r12485-070225
Sandisk Sansa E200
Partition 0: 0x06 1896 MB
Loading Rockbox ...
Error!
Can't load rockbox.e200:
File not found

Then it shuts down.

I'm going to review the troubleshooting links given by other responders and see if I can make more progress.  

Thanks,

Clutch

[scorche]

Did you install a current build to the root of the device, as the instructions say?

[clutch]

Did you install a current build to the root of the device, as the instructions say?

That I know I did.  Just for reference I put  the build at root of the partition that holds music and such in a .rockbox directory  I hope root was supposed to start with a directory .rockbox.  

After I got this to run the rockbox loader, I tried to follow instructions to take this back to original firmware.  Now I get that Load image failed message and redoing the installation instructions doesn't seem to get me out of this.  

Well, I have to go to bed.  Work midnights.  I'll flog on it tomorrow.

[chrisjs169]

Version: 20r12485-070225
Sandisk Sansa E200
Partition 0: 0x06 1896 MB
Loading Rockbox ...
Error!
Can't load rockbox.e200:
File not found

That's an old bootloader...