ipodlinux+rockbox install

[Llorean]

Odd. I will honestly say that has not happened to me. I made one mistake when I installed (somehow my files weren't executable. I was lazy and just made them all so, to fix it if I recall.) Other than that, I did exactly as I described and everything was happy.
Are you sure the third partition of your device exists and is formatted with the various necessary filesystem stuff there? Mine was ext2, I've been told ext3 can be used but I'll admit I haven't tried that...

[JeffElkins]

Well, I'm just redoing things.

Initially, I made my ext3 partition 2nd. I wondered if the loader was looking at the wrong partition, so I swapped 2 and 3. I'm reformatting now.

[theli]

Of course it's only nondestructive if you can safely resize your fat32 partition, but that bit should be obviously potentially destructive.

well.. i've just resized firmware partition ....

[Llorean]

That could work too. I honestly only *know* that it works with Firmware, then Fat32 then Ext2, but I'm sure there are several other situations that work.

[JeffElkins]

Working here...yaay

It was destructive though

iPod Photo 60GB.

My steps.

0. Archive contents of current FAT partition.
1. Leave the first partition alone. For me that was cylinders 1-5.
2. fdisk and delete partition 2
3. Create a new primary partition 2, cylinders 6 - 7275 (57GB) type b, FAT32
3. Create new primary partition 3, cylinders 7276 - 7295 (125M), type 83 linux
4. Write out the new partiton table.
6. Exit fdisk
7. Format partition 2 as fat32: mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sdd2
8. Format partition 3 as ext3: mke2fs -j /dev/sdd3
9. Set /dev/sdd3 for no fsck: tune2fs -c 0 /dev/sdd3
10. place iPL filesystem on /dev/sdd3
11. Restore archive from step 0 to /dev/sdd2
12. copy kernel (linux.bin) to root of dev/sdd2
13. Unmount /dev/sdd2 and /dev/sdd3
14 reboot.

This would have been a LOT easier had I been able to just resize my FAT32 partition. However, partition 1 has a type of 0 (empty) and qtparted wouldn't see past it to read partition 2. Why, I don't know. I also nuked my music, not wanting to deal with a 50GB tar file. It's easier for me to just copy it over.

Thanks for the help!  Would this be suitable for the wiki?

[theli]

That could work too. I honestly only *know* that it works with Firmware, then Fat32 then Ext2, but I'm sure there are several other situations that work.

yeah.. it works that way ...
when resizing partition you should just make linux partition third in partition table, while real position would be different