ipod 2nd Gen 20 gig installation not working

[g00f]

Well, lo and behold finally another firmware to use... i stopped hoping around 2 years ago... thanks DEV's !!!!!

Heres the steps I performed;

Extracted RockBox to my root folder on my ipod.... ./rockbox/

ran ipodpatcher with recognized the firewire ipod and stated it successfully patched it

rebooted the ipod but just keep getting different errors

Did this 3 times with different computers.... still no luck

ERRRORS:

besides hangin on the front RockBox Screen Logo alot I also get...

*panic*
Stkov

Prefetch abort
RT3840008

But now it just hangs on the ROCKBOX LOGO... any suggestions?

[AlexP]

For a start the directory is .rockbox - note the full stop there, it is important.

Where did you get iPodpatcher from and what version is it?

[g00f]

sorry, yes I have the proper .rockbox folder.

ipodpatcher v2.0 with v2.0 bootloaders.

I will try on another system today and see if that works instead, can someone confirm that rockbox does indeed install and work on a 2nd Gen ipod.

thanks

[GodEater]

The developer who made it happen confirmed that when he put it on the "supported" list on the front page.

We're not in the habit of saying we support things when we've never even tried them you know

[yapper]

It does work  
I've got it running on two 2nd gen (old firewire) ipods ... one is a 10 gig and the other a 20 gig.

[g00f]

HI Yapper,

Can you please give me a synopsys of your install, did you just follow the same steps outlined in the readme? What OS did you install from?
thanks

[yapper]

I installed from Windows XP both times.
I used ipodpatcher (see http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodPatcher), which detected the ipod and installed the bootloader.

Then I unzipped an ipod 1st and 2nd gen build (from here http://build.rockbox.org/) directly to the root of the ipod's drive.

I remember reading another thread where someone had problems using ipodpatcher, but I believe they were using a very old version of the Apple firmware ... my ipods have version 1.5 Apple firmware. If you are using an older version of the Apple firmware it might be worth trying updating the Apple firmware, then run ipodpatcher again.