Can't load rockbox.ipod - file not found

[spek10]

Hi I am fairly technical but still new to a MacBook.  I did the auto install for a 30GB iPod video and when I try to boot it i get this error message:

Rockbox boot loader
Version: 2.0
IPOD version: 0xFFFFFFFF
TOSHIBA MK3008GAL
Partition 1: 0x0B 28521 MB
Loading Rockbox...
Error!
Can't load rockbox.ipod:
File not found
Hold MENU+SELECT to reboot
then SELECT+PLAY for disk mode

I have tried full autoinstall and small autoinstall, and unzipping the firmware directly to the rood directory of the iPod, and creating an Applications/Rockbox directory on the device and extracting to there.  Nothing seems to work.  Since the bootloader comes up, I assume its loaded ok - it just cant seem to find the extracted rockbox.ipod file.  PLease help a lost brutha - I'm already 2 hours past my bedtime!!!

[bluebrother]

I have tried full autoinstall and small autoinstall, and unzipping the firmware directly to the rood directory of the iPod, and creating an Applications/Rockbox directory on the device and extracting to there.

You need to extract the zip file to the player itself, not to a subfolder. The zip contains the required folder structure. You will end up with a folder called ".rockbox" (note the leading dot!) on the player. Rockbox is not an application but a firmware, so putting it in some applications folder won't work (there is no applications folder on the Ipod). Be aware that OS X won't show files / folders starting with a dot by default. Also, OS X unzip tool is known to create an additional folder named like the archive itself (i.e. if you extract rockbox.zip it'll create a new folder "rockbox" and puts all files from the archive there -- you need to extract the contents itself, without adding a new folder. This is an OS X issue.)

I'm surprised that Rockbox Utility didn't install the build correctly. Have you tried installing the build using the "Manual Installation" tab?

To fix this you need to put the player into emergency disc mode. Hold the buttons it displays (the reset sequence might need quite a while). If the player is in emergency disc mode you can access it as hard drive and then reinstall the build.

[spek10]

I tried using both the Mac OS and Stuffit to expand the files to the root directory. I wondered why I can 't see them - so if Mac OS 10.5 wont show directories that begin with a dot, how do I know I have extracted it correctly?

And the build utility I used does not have a Manual tab...unless u mean the tab to download the Manual


Forget it.  I loaded Windows from Boot Camp and used the XP Utility.  Someone should look into this though.  I'm not stupid and I can't figure it out....

[ell1ps1s]

The manual workaround for Mac users is to use the command line unzip in the Terminal.

Curious that rbutil didn't do it correctly, though.

[bluebrother]

Curious that rbutil didn't do it correctly, though.

I'm wondering about that too. Maybe he hit a bug in the automatic install -- there is no binary of current rbutil for OS X avaliable (yet). That's the reason why I asked if he tried the manual install from rbutil ...

[spek10]

I'm sure it's a bug in the rbutil.  Brand new MacBook with Leopard, fairly new iPod...the XP rbutil worked flawlessly-in less than 5 min I was up and running, so it's not a hardware problem.

The Mac OS.X rbutil should load and install painlessly - and it don't...

But thanx for trying to help and responding so quick...

[AlexP]

I think there has been some slight confusion.  You can install the bootloader and build individually from the second tab of rbutil, marked installation.  In old versions of rbutil the complete install didn't work properly, but doing the bootloader and build install individually from the second tab did work.  I believe this is what was being suggested.  Unfortunately, owing to a shortage of people able to build the Mac binary, only an older version of rbutil is available for download as a binary.

[bluebrother]

The Mac OS.X rbutil should load and install painlessly - and it don't...

And Rockbox should have a coffee maker plugin ...

Seriously, there was a bug around in rbutil which should be fixed now. Known issues are listed on the rbutil wiki page so you can check those if you have problems. Unfortunately there is almost no testing of rbutil on OS X -- BigBambi already mentioned the reason. Installation was working reliably using the "Installation" tab (I referred to it earlier as manual install tab -- I was wrong with the name) like since day one and I never heard of problems with that. If you have problems with automatic stuff it's always a good idea to try it non-automated -- and I bet this would have worked. You compared two different versions (XP is right now 1.0.5 while for OS X only 1.0.4 is around as binary) so it's not surprising that they work differently. Unfortunately this doesn't help us to figure if there is really a bug present.

So it would be nice if you could try the non-automated installation and check if the Rockbox build gets installed correctly. If you are able building rbutil it would also be helpful if you could check automated install with current svn ...

[R32man]

I have the same problem!!! never had a problem before upgraded to Apples latest firmware 1.3 for my 5.5G 80G ipod tried to install ROckbox ... all successful but get the same error message as above . I will say again under the Previous firmware never had a problem always work .. well pissed off now !! just converted all my music to Ogg and can't use it !!