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[SOLVED] can't load rockbox.ipod - 5.5g 30GB
staen:
I've got exactly the same problem here:
5.5g Ipod, the same error-message as in the first-post.
I double- triple and quadrupel-checked if the .rockbox directory is in the right place and contains rockbox.ipod.
I also started with repartitioning in order to install ipodlinux, some google-search results, forum posts and wiki-entries later (not to mention the sleepless night) I tried the following so far:
First of all, I am trying to install Rockbox on a "clean" Ipod, without ipodlinux to see if it is a rockbox issue. Therefore I restored the original partitioning, trying it in three ways:
* Let Ipodpatcher and dd set the mbr and bootpartition in the state I saved in the beginning
* Restore the bootpartition and mbr using the images found here
* Reset the iPod to factory settings using iTunes (the partition-layout differs from the above, because now the partition-boundaries doesn't match the sector boundaries)
Because my iPod has a 2048-Sectorsize I formated the FAT32-partition using windows, (mtools didn't work for me).
When trying loader2 instead of the rockbox-bootloader, rockbox is started, giving the "no .rockbox directory" error. Rockbox is then not able to read any file from disk. As in the rockbox bootloader, it shows the size of the partition as 7130 MB.
I was fearing the ipodlinux has tampered the harddisk in a way the rockbox can't understand it anymore (and will check this in the appropriate forums), but since I did a full reset of the ipod, i think that my problem is right in the rockbox forums, too.
While reading the whole night about this stuff, I got the assumption, that rockbox doesn't understand the partitioning of some 5.5g Ipods regardless if someone tried to install ipodlinux.
fidelius:
I don't think it's an issue with ipodlinux, because I had not tried Loader2 from ipodlinux before trying to load rockbox. I tried with Loader2 only after the rockbox installation failed as described above.
staen:
This is what irritates me:
* IPOD version: 0xFFFFFFFF
* Partition 1: 0x0B 7130 MB
May there be some 5.5g Ipods which are not recognized by rockbox and therefore not understood? It seems to me that the partition table is not interpreted correctly.
Is there any information I can provide to get this resolved?
Regards
Carsten
gevaerts:
Are you sure that windows formatted it properly ?
staen:
I guessed so (not sure though). Unfortunatly mformat gave me "argssize must be less than 6", so I weren't able to use it.
But at least the "restoring to manufacturer settings" in itunes should have given a correctly formated partition, or am I wrong?
Additional information: while fdisk (in ubuntu 8.04) shows the correct partition table, cfdisk seems to have similar issues as rockbox and shows one ~7600 MB sized partition as sdX2. Some problem with the controller of the harddrive or maybe a problem with the 512 / 2048 byte sized sectors?
Things I haven't tried yet (and will try later):
* As soon as I am at home again, I will look into the 5.5g Ipod of my wife, which works with rockbox. Maybe the differences will give a hint... (don't know why I didn't think at it before)
* I will restore and install it from the same Windows XP Installation I installed my wifes Ipod from.
* I will dd the mbr and bootpartition of my wifes ipod to mine
Grasping at straws, I fear...
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