Switching the main partition on an iPod?

[diaperpie]

Howdy. I was wondering if there was some way to get the RockBox firmware to boot up by switching on the HOLD switch, and the iPod firmware to boot up normally? I have a 30gb 5.5 iPod.

Thanks

[soap]

No.
You could make the simple code change yourself, and compile your own bootloader - Rockbox provides both the code and the build environments to do so.
Rockbox, however, is about Rockbox - not the Apple Firmware - and has little interest in spending time making Rockbox secondary.

[bluebrother]

Also, what is the reason for such a change? If AppleOS is booted it doesn't shut down the hardware but uses some "deep sleep" state to allow faster wake-up. This also means that you need to hard-reset (using Menu + Select) the Ipod to go back to Rockbox. Which in turn makes such a change kinda useless: if your last OS was AppleOS you'll get back to AppleOS. If the last you used was Rockbox you'll get Rockbox. You only need to do something if you want to switch between them.

I really don't understand why such a boot order change would be of any benefit.