Getting a black screen with white text saying "image not found".

[nanoguy]

Yea so i turned on my ipod today in class and a back screen with white text came up saying:

Rockbox boot Loader
version 2.0
IPOD version:0+000c005
partition 1: 0+0b
Loading Rocbox....
Than says more info about my ipod
Loading rockbox.ipod:
Error!
Can't load rockbox, ipod:
Read failed (image)



I'm thinking, that i don't have the rockbox image? Help please? Thanks again.

[AlexP]

You haven't followed the instructions properly.  Reread the installation instructions in the manual, specifically the bit about unzipping a build to your player.

[nanoguy]

yes i did read it right.. i had rockbox on my ipod for over a month.. now today it started doing this.

[AlexP]

Sorry, it was me that didn't read it properly.  

I just saw

Loading rockbox.ipod:
Error!
Can't load rockbox, ipod:

and stopped reading, it is so common.  Woops.

Have you tried error checking your disk, and then re-extracting rockbox.zip?  It may have become corrupted some how.

[nanoguy]

i can re extract it like copy it over, without reformatting?

[AlexP]

Yep, just overwrite the existing installation.  That is how you update rockbox (which you ought to try and do before reporting any problems really).

Also, I'm going to assume you are on Windows - try running chkdsk on the drive when in disk mode.

[nanoguy]

how would i run it though for my ipod.. right now its saying local disc.

[AlexP]

Has windows given it a drive letter?

[nanoguy]

The type system is NTFS
Volume Label is Local Disc
WARNING! F Parameter not specified
Running chkdsk in read-only mode


thats what it says

[Llorean]

Rockbox won't run on an NTFS formatted device. Did you reformat it recently for some reason?

[nanoguy]

yes i did reformat 2 days ago because linux boot loader wouldn't let rockbox run.. Last night i put a new video on it. Now today it doesn't work.

[Llorean]

Rockbox will never run on an NTFS formatted disk.

[nanoguy]

ok, than how come it worked before?? I never changed anything...

[Llorean]

Rockbox does _not_ have NTFS support. At no point could you have been using Rockbox while the drive was NTFS formatted. Before you reformatted it, it was probably FAT32.

[nanoguy]

no it was fat32 i know for a fact. It even says File system: FAT32 when i check in my computer. I said before that the "Volume Label is Local Disc", not removable disk. i don't how to run chkdsk on it.. I only hit start>run>chkdsk.