2G iPod Installation - Matching partition table

[BdN3504]

On this page, the partition table for the 2g ipod is not listed. Which one should I use, when i try to format a 2g ipod to fat32?

[Chronon]

Apparently, no one with one of those players has taken the time to submit that info to the wiki.  Hopefully, someone will happen by with that info.  Depending on how quickly someone can give you the necessary information it might be easier to try to find a friend with a PC.

[yapper]

This might help (I'll take a look at updating the wiki tonight):

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ipodpatcher v2.0 with v2.0 bootloaders - (C) Dave Chapman 2006-2007
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[INFO] Ipod found - 1st or 2nd Generation ("winpod") - disk device 1
[INFO] Reading partition table from \\.\PhysicalDrive1
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[INFO] Part    Start Sector    End Sector   Size (MB)   Type
[INFO]    0              63         80324        39.2   Empty (0x00)
[INFO]    1           80325      39054014     19030.1   W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[INFO] Ipod model: 1st or 2nd Generation ("winpod")
Enter i to install the Rockbox bootloader, u to uninstall
 or c to cancel and do nothing (i/u/c) :

EDIT: Can someone give some guidance on how to 'dump' a partition table, preferably via Windows, or using Linux via a LiveCD?

[GodEater]

EDIT: Can someone give some guidance on how to 'dump' a partition table, preferably via Windows, or using Linux via a LiveCD?

The preferred method to do it is using 'dd' which is a standard linux command, but I believe there's a version you can get for windows too. The difficulty then though would be that I don't recall the windows device naming convention. Amiconn might be able to help there - he's used it before.

For the linux command line though you'd do :

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dd if=/dev/sdb of=ipod_2nd_gen_mbr.bin count=1 bs=512

Where "/dev/sdb" is the device name of your ipod when it's plugged in to your PC.

[yapper]

Thanks for the pointers.

I've found a 'dd for windows' here http://www.chrysocome.net/dd but still need the naming convention.

I could use the Linux dd but I would need to point the output file at the iPod as I'd be running Linux from a LiveCD.

[LambdaCalculus]

I could use the Linux dd but I would need to point the output file at the iPod as I'd be running Linux from a LiveCD.

Why not output it to a thumb drive? Simply navigate to your thumb drive via the command line (for example, "cd /media/<disk name here>" if you're using Ubuntu), then run the dd command from there. Then you can upload it to the wiki afterwards.

[GodEater]

Why not output it to a thumb drive? Simply navigate to your thumb drive via the command line (for example, "cd /media/<disk name here>" if you're using Ubuntu), then run the dd command from there. Then you can upload it to the wiki afterwards.

Won't his iPod effectively *be* a thumb drive at that point ?

[LambdaCalculus]

That's true. Just a friendly suggestion.

[amiconn]

I've attached the MBR files for 10GB and 20GB 2nd Gen to the wiki page. Maybe it's a good idea to move them to download.rockbox.org like the others.

[yapper]

@Jens:

Do you happen to know the naming convention used with the windows variant of dd?

I tried

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dd if=\\.\k: of=ipod_mbr.bin count=1 bs=512

where K: is the ipod (2nd Gen 20G), but the output file does not match the file you posted on the wiki.