Rockbox on Clip+ "*PANIC* disk_init failed!" [Solved]

[xDownSetx]

Just threw rockbox on my Clip+ and the rockbox utility said the install completed successfully and I saw no signs of errors. When I boot the clip it says "*PANIC* disk_init failed!"

I'm not too worried as the original firmware boots fine when I hold down the left button. Is there anything obvious I should look for to get things working right?  Any sort of logs that will help explain the issue?

.rockbox is in the root of the clip. I've tried other rockbox builds as well.

Also, I'd like to mention that my clip+ is 2 days old and came with firmware version 1.02.16A.  I had to downgrade to 15A in order to get rockbox.

[bluebrother]

Do you have a SD card in the player? If yes try removing it while booting.

[xDownSetx]

Sorry I forgot to mention that.  No SD card in the clip atm.

[saratoga]

I'm curious if your player will downgrade even further then .15.  Can you try and see if it will let you flash this firmware file:

http://mp3support.sandisk.com/firmware/clipplus/clipplus01.02.09.zip

You don't need to try that with rockbox, just the regular firmware. 

[xDownSetx]

It carried out the downgrade and is working properly.  Does flashing the original firmware wipe the bootloader as well?

[saratoga]

It carried out the downgrade and is working properly.  Does flashing the original firmware wipe the bootloader as well?

It does. 

Can you use the command line in Windows?  If so, you could try using the manual installation instructions in the manual, and then when prompted to download the bootloader, use this one instead:

http://duke.edu/~mgg6/rockbox/bootloader-clipplus.sansa

No idea if a newer bootloader will help, but its probably worth a shot.  Some improvements have been made to the storage driver lately. 

[xDownSetx]

Awesome saratoga, were in business!  Everything is working great now.  Thanks a ton for both or your help guys!  Pretty rare to get help for something straight from the devs.

[saratoga]

Great.  I guess we should think about updating the official bootloader then. 

[vladimir88x7]

I tried to do installing the bootloader manually and i get an error in command prompt:

ERR]  Could not open bootloader-clipplus.sansa for reading
ERR]  Could not load bootloader-clipplus.sansa

[bluebrother]

Then the file is missing. Or, depending on your OS, you don't have permissions to access the file.

[vladimir88x7]

Why would I have that problem? I have a legit copy of windows xp installed.  Anyways I am a bit disappointed because I only got the clip+ to rockbox it, and the sansa filmware on it sucks.  I might be getting an old Ipod soon, can I rockbox it with the automatic installer or will I run in with the same problem as I did with the clip+?

[saratoga]

Why would I have that problem?

Usually because you didn't download the file,  or if you did you downloaded it to a different folder.   Have you checked to see if the file it can't find exists?

[vladimir88x7]

well the "bootloader-clipplus.sansa" is just a worldpad file, is it what it's supposed to be? i downloaded it from the link about into the rbinstall folder and the other two files clppa and mkamsboot are also in the rbinstall folder.

[bluebrother]

well the "bootloader-clipplus.sansa" is just a worldpad file, is it what it's supposed to be?

What is a worldpad file? Are you referring to Wordpad? It's a binary file, and opening it in Wordpad is likely to show garbage. If it's text then something went wrong with your download.

[saratoga]

well the "bootloader-clipplus.sansa" is just a worldpad file, is it what it's supposed to be?

I don't know what that means, but probably not.  I would redownload the file, and this time make sure its in the right folder before you run the command.  FWIW if you feed it the wrong file (but one that exists) you'll get a different error message.