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Installing on an 80GB 5G iPod (OSX)
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: perryman on March 13, 2009, 02:42:05 PM ---I was unclear in my first post. I restored it via iTunes on a Windows computer. Thus, my confusion. The easy way listed in the link says nothing about having to repartition. It says to just restore on a Windows computer and presto, it's ready, which I'm finding to not be the case.
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Well, it should be. From reading your description you might hit the issue reported here: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/9833
Interestingly this issue doesn't seem to appear when using ipodpatcher instead of Rockbox Utility. Rockbox Utility, however, does use ipodpatcher internally (it's linked into it) so I really don't understand why this issue happens.
If you're in a non-working state now it would be nice if you could try some things (in that order):
* dump the partition table of the player (for reference)
* Try installation using current Rockbox Utility running with sudo
* Try installation using the older Rockbox Utility 1.0.7
* Try using ipodpatcher
and report back what worked and what not :)
As we don't have a developer with a Mac working on Rockbox Utility it's somewhat impossible to fix that issue without help.
Edit: oh, and another question: you completely shut down Itunes, right?
perryman:
I mean, it is able to work, but I don't have music on it. I'll try your suggestions if you can explain the first bullet and what sudo is.
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: perryman on March 13, 2009, 06:52:24 PM ---I mean, it is able to work, but I don't have music on it. I'll try your suggestions if you can explain the first bullet and what sudo is.
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I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. Did you get Rockbox running on the Ipod? If you already have the bootloader installed these tests are pointless.
Dumping the partition table is done similarly as writing the partition table in the IpodConversionToFAT32 wiki page. The command would look like dd if=/dev/diskN of=mbr-xxxx.bin count=1 bs=512 The same way described on the wiki you need to replace the N with the disk number of your Ipod and the mbr-xxx.bin with an arbitrary file name.
Sudo is a tool for running a program with elevated permissions -- while started from a user account a program can get root permissions (see http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/DARWIN/Reference/ManPages/man8/sudo.8.html for details). It's called from the command line. Open a terminal and type something like this: sudo /path/to/rbutil-binary Not sure where to find the binary on OS X -- perhaps someone else can give details here. Another interesting test would be to try if bootloader installation works on Windows.
perryman:
--- Quote ---If you're in a non-working state now it would be nice if you could try some things (in that order):
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I thought you meant if my iPod doesn't work at all. It works, but it is on factory settings.
EDIT:: I just tried dumping the partition table.
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes transferred in 0.520039 secs (985 bytes/sec)
iPod continues flashing do not disconnect.
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: perryman on March 13, 2009, 07:42:09 PM ---EDIT:: I just tried dumping the partition table.
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes transferred in 0.520039 secs (985 bytes/sec)
iPod continues flashing do not disconnect.
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Well, that's correct. You now need to try the next item on the list :)
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