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[SORTED] 30Gb Video iPods are not all 5th Gen iPods & some crashes & iPodLinux

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Peacepunk:
Hi there.

I've had the crash again, which I believe I sorted by removing _all_ files at the .rockbox root but for rockbox.ipod and ropckbox-info (and the folders). I sure lost all my settings, but it eventually did uncrashed the thing. It looks again as a mere groundless opinion of me that doesn't make sense,

[One must notice, though, that I toyed with a self-build SVN version of ipodloader2 setup that may have got in the way, and generated the first crash of rockbox. Yes, I intend to have ipodlinux somewhere alongside RB that I can't quit because of all my .ogg & flac music]


[edit/update] --same build with ipodlinux bootloader2 works fine -- [edit/update]

Cheers community

Jean-Philippe
Happily running 15282 now

GodEater:
There have been issues in the past with Loader2 not quite correctly initialising the COP on iPods causing this sort of behaviour - and what with the recent introduction of proper dual processor handling - that might be the issue again.

Why not use the Rockbox bootloader instead ? Then you can be sure this isn't the issue.

Chronon:
The Rockbox bootloader will also load iPodLinux, though this feature does not seem to be very well documented at the moment.  However, I recall that holding down Play during the boot-up sequence will cause the Rockbox bootloader to load a properly named iPL kernel.  A forum search turned up this corroborating post from Linuxstb:


--- Quote from: linuxstb on May 04, 2007, 07:06:48 AM ---If you hold PLAY whilst booting, the Rockbox bootloader looks for a file called linux.bin in the root of your FAT32 partition.

--- End quote ---

Peacepunk:

--- Quote from: GodEater on October 23, 2007, 01:11:01 PM ---Why not use the Rockbox bootloader instead ? Then you can be sure this isn't the issue.

--- End quote ---

That's how I revived Rockbox - Failing a proper install of IPL's bootloader2 that returned "bat FAT superblock" error @ start-up time & did not recognize Rockbox or ipodlinux, I went the hard way, downloaded the uClinux toolchain, compiled a SVN version of bootloader2 & installed it over a freshly iTune-restored, empty device.

I did take these steps even before setting up IPL since I suspect the Bat Block issue to be linked with sfdisk or mtools working on the 'Pod HDD. In order to test that I had a sane loader, I first blanked it with iTune, tested apple firmware; then installed  the IPL's loader into place & end up with a locked RB firmware but a functional Apple one. So, backing of I committed a full "rockbox" install which worked fine, and only AFTER did I threw the ipodloader thingy as booter... Pfew.

And the reason why not using RB as a loader for IPL is that it's rather "hard" to grab the right moment to push Play to get into Linux mode, that my post on IPL forums regarding how to set up IPL without a bootloader did not raised much interest, and even with an ext2 partition featuring all the needed stuff I actually never succeeded in launching IPL from RB bootloader - That I suspect, is because of me, not RB or IPL...

Anybody with day-to-day experience over IPL from RB, please feel free to join...

http://ipodlinux.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28343

On my way, on my way. If I ever got this 5.5th gen triple-booting I'll commit myself to a nice Wiki page

Bye; heading for a Partitionless IPL install now, just to test the kernel against the bootloader before re-formatting again. and probably again and again.

:)

Jean-Philippe

GodEater:
I beg to differ. It's easy to get the timing right. Just hold play as soon as you start booting. Simple as that.

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