Can't load rockbox.ipod on 2G Mini

[_david]

I successfully installed the Bootloader and Rockbox using the Rockbox Utility, but booting it says:

Rockbox boot loader
Version: 2.0
IPOD version 0x0007000
HMS360604D5CF00
Partition 1: 0x0B 3866
Loading Rockbox...
Error!
Can't load rockbox.ipod
File not found
Hold MENU+SELECT to
reboot then SELECT+PLAY
for disk mode

I already looked whether rockbox.ipod is in it's right place - it is (in the .rockbox folder on the ipod's root directory).
I also tried with copying another build (r18007 instead of r18026) onto the ipod, but it didn't boot either

Any ideas? Is it a problem with the bootloader?

[soap]

I do not believe there is any problem with the bootloader.
Is there a rockbox.ipod file in the .rockbox folder?

[_david]

yes, it's in the .rockbox folder on the ipod, terminal says:


dp:.rockbox toy$ ls -l rockbox.ipod
-rw-r--r--  1 root  admin  482924 12 Jul 06:26 rockbox.ipod

[Llorean]

What filesystem is your iPod formatted with?

[_david]

I changed it to FAT32 using a Windows VM.
This is the ipod's disk info:

dp:toy toy$ diskutil list /dev/disk2
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *3.8 Gi     disk2
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 ADMINISTRAT             3.8 Gi     disk2s2

[Llorean]

There's only one partition? That's absolutely not right. How did you convert it?

[_david]

Windows asked me to format it, so it was that standard tool.

The OSX Disk Utility displays only one partition. However, using the "ls /Volumes" command, there are 2 Volumes shown:
"ADMINISTRAT" contains the .rockbox directory
"ADMINISTRAT 1" contains those Apple iPod directories.

[yapper]

iPod Conversion to FAT32 under MacOS X is documented here:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodConversionToFAT32

[_david]

@yapper: I tried this manual conversion method before. Worked fine, but afterwards the ipodpatcher refused to patch, saying there was no apple firmware found. So I restored factory settings with itunes and tried the Windows-format-&Rockbox-Util way.

[Llorean]

Simply doing a windows format is absolutely wrong. You'll need to do the method linked on that page, or use a windows version of iTunes to restore the device. No other method is going to work properly, or be supported.

[_david]

I did a FAT32-format with itunes on windows, but, again, the OS X Rockbox Util didn't get it working.
Finally, I tried the Rockbox Util for Windows with a VM.
Now it's working, yay!

Thanks for your help!