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Ipod Video 30g can't boot to either firmware

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kevnmc:
I have the above iPod and about 1 week ago loaded rockbox via the installer.  It was working fine until last night when I was adding some music.  I was nearing the capacity of the hard drive but don't think I exceeded it when all of a sudden it disconnected from my computer and tried to reboot.  I then got a bootloader error which advised to put it into disk mode.  I tried booting back to apple firmware and it hangs until the battery goes dead.  FYI - I installed from the installer using MAC OSX (current version).  The ipod was fat32 formatted using a Windows PC.  Any assistance correcting this issue would be greatly appreciated.  I apologize in advance if this is a common occurrence.  I searched this forum for related issue but didn't find anything quite like what I am experiencing.

saratoga:
Recharge the battery, return to apple disk mode, and then try to reformat it.

kevnmc:

--- Quote from: saratoga on October 13, 2010, 02:58:22 PM ---return to apple disk mode

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Thanks.  I'll try this when I get home.  When you say "return to apple disk mode" are you talking about when the bootloader tells me to push the select and play buttons simultaneously?

If so, I tried that last night but, when I plugged it into my mac via usb I got a message to the effect of "disk not recognized".  Do I need to try this within Windows?

Chronon:
Apple's instructions on entering Disk Mode:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1363

If you still have problems, it might be worth running some tests with Apple's diagnostic mode.

torne:

--- Quote from: kevnmc on October 13, 2010, 05:12:38 PM ---Thanks.  I'll try this when I get home.  When you say "return to apple disk mode" are you talking about when the bootloader tells me to push the select and play buttons simultaneously?

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It also tells you to reboot first.. hold select and menu to reset then as soon as the apple logo appears, hold select and play.

Edit: If you have the most recent bootloader, which you should do if you installed Rockbox a week ago, then you can just plug the USB cable in and it should automatically restart to disk mode from the bootloader error screen.

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