Installation / Removal > Apple - Installation/Removal
iPod first generation install?
GodEater:
I'm sorry to hear the install didn't work out - we have a very small pool of users with iPods of the same generation as yours - so testing has naturally been rather limited.
Would you mine donating the MBR from your newly windows'd iPod for people who come along afterwards to use?
yapper:
There is a 'problem' with builds on the early iPod models, which results in some builds being 'bad'.
Check out this thread http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=14228.0 for details of versions that have been found to work on a 2nd Gen, which should have a good chance of running on your 1st Gen.
About halfway down the thread is a list of recent-ish versions I've tried with success.
AlexP:
--- Quote from: yapper on March 13, 2008, 12:20:23 PM ---There is a 'problem' with builds on the early iPod models, which results in some builds being 'bad'.
Check out this thread http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=14228.0 for details of versions that have been found to work on a 2nd Gen, which should have a good chance of running on your 1st Gen.
About halfway down the thread is a list of recent-ish versions I've tried with success.
--- End quote ---
I was under the impression this had been fixed:
http://svn.rockbox.org/viewvc.cgi?view=rev;revision=16547
bidmead:
@Godeater
MBR? Delighted. I'm assuming a simple:
dd if=/dev/diskN of=mbr1gen.bin
... will do the trick?
How do I put it up here?
@yapper Thanks for the tip. I can see hours of harmless amusement wading through those releases to find one that might work. :-) But are there any diagnostic tools to give us a better fix on what might be going wrong? I'm very happy to help, but not crazy about thrashing around in the dark.
@BigBambi That seems to be a fix for a bug that hasn't manifested itself on my machine. The two problems I'm having seem to be:
1) Contrast and backlighting hosed (perhaps trivial)
2) Constant reboot reportedly due to incorrect diagnosis of low battery.
Any guidance on a useful way to proceed with this would be welcomed, although I appreciate that there may not be much interest in getting RB onto this particular model.
--
Chris
linuxstb:
--- Quote from: bidmead on March 13, 2008, 12:59:08 PM ---@Godeater
MBR? Delighted. I'm assuming a simple:
dd if=/dev/diskN of=mbr1gen.bin
... will do the trick?
How do I put it up here?
--- End quote ---
No, that will copy the entire 5GB disk... You will want to add "count=1" to the end of that line to restrict it to one sector.
You can attach it to a comment in this thread, although you may have to rename it (e.g. to .txt) - the forum probably doesn't accept files with a .bin extension. I'll then arrange for it to be moved to the right place.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version