e260 boots into RockBox fine, but won't boot into original firmware

[Freedom_XXXX]

1)  How will I know when the bug in the sansapatcher has been identified and fixed?

Looks like infirit filed a bug: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/7806
So watch for changes there... And also read this thread

I was hoping a dev to confirm the problem and suggest to use the 0.2 patcher in the mean time but that has not happened. So I will post a link to the version 0.2 patcher so people at least can get their sansa running rockbox.

win32
Linux x86

Thanks for posting the version 0.2. Rockbox loads and works perfect. Original firmware also loads perfect. Just what I need.

BTW very nice themes available for download. Does anybody know if we can set custom visual setting when a song is playing(like windows media player visual optons!)?

[Bagder]

Ok, so at some point during the last few months the bootloader stopped working fine.

It would be really helpful if someone could take some time to binary-search down to when exactly it stopped working.

[oranges2]

Whats the difference between the two versions? (aside from 0.3 not working correctly)

[Bagder]

They're identical, but back when we did the 0.2 version of the bootloader for e200 (which is reported to still work to dual-boot) we didn't have the correct keys for e200R added so the 0.2 can't decrypt the e200R OF image.

[infirit]

It would be really helpful if someone could take some time to binary-search down to when exactly it stopped working.

I would love to help figuring this out but how do I go about doing this?

[dana7]

OK, after just one day without RockBox, I got tired of waiting and ran the .2 version of the sansapatcher, and I am happy to report that it seems to have worked fine.

Thanks to infirit for the link.

          You people are great.  

                     I think I'm gonna like it here.  

[Bagder]

It would be really helpful if someone could take some time to binary-search down to when exactly it stopped working.

I would love to help figuring this out but how do I go about doing this?

Pick a date between now and July 31st. Build a bootloader with the sources from that date and try that. Did it work? If so, pick another date between that and the date it doesn't work and continue.

In the end you should hopefully be able to point out the exact day the bootloader broke, and then you can continue to figure out the exact rev number...

[infirit]

I can already say the actual patcher application is not the problem. Using the v0.3 patcher with an older bootloader (global rev 13315) works. Now try and get the version of bootloader that is causing the problems.

[infirit]

Found the commit that broke the bootloader. Not sure how it could have but that is up to the devs to find out ;-)
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Rev: 14654
Firmware "hacker" code for the e200r install so the full bootloader rom doesnt need to be written.
Requires a custom version of e200tool which isnt available yet.

* Causes the complete lockup of the sansa e200. Before it would just reboot.

Rev: 14424

FS#7634: Add support for high capacity microSD cards (SDHC). We now support SD specification Version 2.00 which covers cards up to 32GB in size.

* breaks the bootloader. It just reboots trying to load the OF.

[Bagder]

Sorry, I don't understand. "the commit" that broke the bootloader is a single commit, and then you list two different ones that have problems?

Are you saying that both of these independently prevent the bootloader from working fine?

[infirit]

The 14424 commit is what is causing the failure.

It just found it really strange that before commit 14654 the sansa reboots and after it would lockup and needs a reset.

[alaron]

Cool...if that's the change that broke the bootloader maybe we can have that fixed soon

[scharkalvin]

can somebody supply a download link to files that
work?  I have an E270 coming in the mail this week and would
like to install rockbox.  Until this problem gets fixed for good, I'd like to just
install and older version of the boot loader (how?) that doesn't have
the problem.  Is the bootloader part of the rockbox binary, or is it a
separate file?  

[dana7]

There is already one in this thread.  Look back a page or two for a post from infirnt on Sept 21, 2007.  He has a link to the 0.2 bootloader in his post that I copied to my 280 that I had loded up with bad software before I got smart.


Be fearless, and G'luk

[scharkalvin]

There is already one in this thread.  Look back a page or two for a post from infirnt on Sept 21, 2007.  He has a link to the 0.2 bootloader

He did post a link to sansapatcher 0.2.  Is that the same thing as the boot loader?