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[SOLVED] can't load rockbox.ipod - 5.5g 30GB
fidelius:
Hi!
I've trying hard to install rockbox on my ipod 5.5G 30GB that I recently got from ebay. The ipod is functioning normally with the apple firmware. After installing rockbox and when trying to boot into it I get this message on my ipod:
--- Code: ---Rockbox boot loader
Version: 2.0
IPOD version: 0xFFFFFFFF
TOSHIBA MK3008GAL
Partition 1: 0x0B 7130MB
Loading Rockbox...
Can't load rockbox.ipod:
File not found
Hold MENU+SELECT to reboot
then SELECT+PLAY for disk mode
--- End code ---
I am on a linux PC and I have used the latest SVN. I have used the rbutilqt app to install rockbox and I have also tried manually copying over the .rockbox dir and running ipodpatcher myself. While running ipodpatcher manually I encountered no errors, as I didn't have no errors with rbutilqt either.
Thinking that this might be a linux issue I also tried rbutilqt on a winXP PC but I had the same problem there.
I have been wiping the .rockbox dir from my ipod as long as removing and reinstalling the bootloader for every installation I've tried (must be 6-7 by now). I have tried doing a "full" install with rbutilqt as well as "small" installs, no luck either way.
The rockbox.ipod file is there, but I have no idea why the bootloader can't locate it.
In between some rockbox installation attempts I did a "restore to factory settings" from within itunes in winXP but that didn't help.
What I find troubling is the error message itself. Apart from the fact that the rockbox.ipod file is there, take a look at the reported size for my ipod: 7130MB! This is a 30GB ipod and running "df -h" while having it mounted shows that in fact it has 28GB of space.
Runnind fdisk -l to view the partitions on the ipod I'm getting this:
--- Code: ---Note: sector size is 2048 (not 512)
Disk /dev/sdb: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 912 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 2048 = 32901120 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 3 96264 0 Empty
/dev/sdb2 4 912 29206170 b W95 FAT32
--- End code ---
Don't really know if there were supposed to be 2 partitions in there or what the sector size should actually be... So, any ideas on how to how to make this work?
EDIT:
Some progress: I have managed to install Loader2 from the ipodlinux project. This one manages to boot into rockbox, I get to see the rockbox menu, but right after boot I get an error that "no .rockbox directory" is there and that "installation is incomplete". But I can't do much other than go around the menus, it can't find my music files on the ipod and in RockBox info it says:
--- Code: ---Free: 2.93GB
Disk: 27.0GB
Buffer: 29.118MB
Version: r16246-080208
--- End code ---
which is weird because there are actually about 26GB free at this point in the ipod!
Chronon:
Please modify your post instead of double posting.
I'm not sure about what you're seeing here.
You say that you can now boot Rockbox but you can't see files if you go to the file browser? Where are your music files located? And what's the path to rockbox.ipod, by the way?
fidelius:
Thanks for answering! :)
--- Quote from: Chronon on February 08, 2008, 08:28:34 PM ---Please modify your post instead of double posting.
--- End quote ---
I'm sorry, I wasn't aware this wasn't allowed. ::)
--- Quote ---I'm not sure about what you're seeing here.
You say that you can now boot Rockbox but you can't see files if you go to the file browser?
--- End quote ---
I'm completely stumped too. With Loader2 I do get an RockBox entry in the boot menu. When I select it, I see the yellow RockBox logo, then I get a message saying "no .rockbox directory" followed by another one "installation incomplete". It then shows the main RockBox menu, but when I select "Files" I get nothing at all. And if I try to initialize the Database, it hangs there with "Building database... 0 found".
--- Quote ---Where are your music files located? And what's the path to rockbox.ipod, by the way?
--- End quote ---
The ipod is mounted at /media/IPOD and the rockbox.ipod file is in /media/IPOD/.rockbox/rockbox.ipod. I have put my mp3s in /media/IPOD/Music.
--- Code: ---$ ls -A /media/IPOD
.rockbox Calendars Contacts Music Notes iPod_Control
--- End code ---
--- Code: ---$ ls -A /media/IPOD/.rockbox/
backdrops docs langs rocks wps
codecs eqs recpresets tagnavi.config
codepages fonts rockbox-info.txt themes
database.ignore icons rockbox.ipod viewers.config
--- End code ---
And the md5sum of the rockbox.zip that I used is
--- Code: ---3da4dad0ad7a1b111da257268eae80e0 rockbox.zip
--- End code ---
Llorean:
Since you've done it with loader2 as well, there's an important question: How is your iPod formatted?
fidelius:
--- Quote from: Llorean on February 09, 2008, 02:52:29 AM ---Since you've done it with loader2 as well, there's an important question: How is your iPod formatted?
--- End quote ---
It's a winipod, with a FAT32 partition if you're asking that. I have posted the partition information in my 1st post. If there's any more info you need I'll be happy to provide it.
EDIT: I have also found this post that describes what seems to be the same problem but sadly he didn't post what the solution was.
I have tried formating the ipod with
--- Code: ---mformat -t 892 -h 255 -s 63 -S 2048 -M 2048 -F i:
--- End code ---
as suggested here but it's still the same.
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