Hi,
I was having all sorts of problems reinstalling my nano 1st gen. I even stopped to run the flash driver tester to confirm I didn't have a bad piece of flash memory. rbutil kept failing to install the bootloader, and rebooting would complain about a bad checksum in rockbox.ipod.
So I started the manual installation, in particular I was aiming for fast boot putting the rockbox.ipod file into the bootloader directly. Here is what happens:
[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[INFO] Read XML info (6209 bytes)
[INFO] Ipod found - 1st Generation Nano ("winpod") - disk device 1
[INFO] Reading partition table from \\.\PhysicalDrive1
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[INFO] Part Start Sector End Sector Size (MB) Type
[INFO] 0 63 160649 78.4 Empty (0x00)
[INFO] 1 160656 7999486 3827.6 W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[INFO] Read XML info (6209 bytes)
[INFO] Ipod model: 1st Generation Nano (32MB RAM) ("winpod")
[ERR] Model name in input file (1g2g) doesn't match ipod model (nano)
[ERR] --write-firmware failed.
Should I report this as a bug in the system? It seems that the ipodpatcher validation code is out of sync with the released .ipod firmware files.
Thanks!
Lester