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White screen after installing on 2nd gen iPod

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jasker:
I decided to try out Rockbox for its OGG and FLAC support with my 2nd gen iPod. Anyway, I've tried both manual install and automatic install, with the same result.

When installing the rockbox bootloader, the iPodpatcher program seems to work just fine:

[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[INFO] Ipod found - 1st or 2nd Generation ("winpod") - disk device 4
[INFO] Reading partition table from \\.\PhysicalDrive4
[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      19518974      9491.5   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) :i
[INFO] Using internal bootloader - 42604 bytes
[INFO] Reading original firmware...
[INFO]  Wrote 3277824 bytes to firmware partition
[INFO] Bootloader installed successfully.
Press ENTER to exit ipodpatcher :



I've successfully unzipped the rockbox firmware as well (the .rockbox folder in the root of my iPod is there).

However, when I disconnect and reset the ipod (menu + play), the apple logo appears for a few seconds, then the screen goes completely black (or white if i touch the wheel -- the backlight turns on)

I can still put the ipod in disk mode perfectly fine (menu + play, then rew + ff), and I can boot into the original Apple firmware (menu + play, then hold menu), so I'm at a loss for what the problem is.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any advice?

Thanks in advance.

yapper:
I've never seen that behavior, but you could try a restore from iTunes, then re-install the bootloader and Rockbox.

Chronon:
Can you tell us what version of Rockbox you installed?

jasker:
The newest version, 3.0.

Why was this moved? I'm yet to successfully boot the Rockbox firmware.

Chronon:
It could have stayed, I guess.  It just seems less like an installation problem than some problem with the build, itself.  I.e. you successfully installed the bootloader and it seems the build was extracted correctly (though it may be corrupted).  Can you try with a current build and see if you have the same problem?

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