5th Gen install gives me "Cannot load rockbox.ipod." 'Sup?

[kevlarcupid]

I'm cross posting this from the "My install went wrong" thread, since it's been a solid week, and I haven't gotten any acknowledgement in there.

I tried installing Rockbox using the utility on my iPod 5th Gen (512 byte-sectors). Everything seemed to go fine, but I get the "cannot load rockbox.ipod" error on starting the iPod. I'm using a Mac, so I double checked to make sure there's a .rockbox folder in the root of the iPod. There is. I deleted it, downloaded a new build, extracted it, and used cp -fv to move the .rockbox folder to my ipod. It worked, but I still get the error.

rockbox.ipod can be found in /.rockbox/ off the iPod root.

Advice?

[Mosa]

I had the same problem!

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=14830.0

[kevlarcupid]

I'll give it a shot. Will let you know how it goes. Thanks.

[kevlarcupid]

Problem solved. Thanks for the info, duder!

[MarcGuay]

So what was the solution?

[kevlarcupid]

I downloaded this full set of files and re-extracted them to the root of the iPod. I don't know why, but for one reason or another, it worked. Hopefully it works for others.

[AlexP]

I'm confused.  The reason I didn't reply to the thread was that you were so adamant that you already had downloaded and unzipped a build correctly.  Given that you were sure that /.rockbox/rockbox.ipod was present, if it were a corrupted file I would have expected a checksum error, not a can't find rockbox.ipod.

Nonetheless, I'm glad it is working

[kevlarcupid]

Believe me, man. I'm as confused as you are, but I'm just pumped it's working.