HElp - Not saving data base or settings on 4th gen Ipod

[coacharnold]

I recently got a broken ipod for cheap and replaced the dead hard drive with my old gigabeat drive ..... itunes brought the old girl right back to stock.

I then put rockbox on it ..... everything perfect .....  I then was messing with it on my linux box trying to get it to mount ...... and I did a chmod 777 and chown 777  trying to get things to write to it .......

I think I totally horked the files system cause now it won't save the database or settings ...... I have however reinstalled rockbox fine and put music on it fine ..... but it still won't write the access control file or save the database ....

Any one have a clue?


Tim

[[Saint]]

I then was messing with it on my linux box trying to get it to mount

It is quite likely that in the process of whatever "trying to get it to mount" was (it really should mount the same as any other removable storage device would without any special attention) you trashed the filesystem by failing to safely eject the device (a big no-no with FAT).

... and I did a chmod 777 and chown 777  trying to get things to write to it

I'm not sure what you've done, or think you have done, but I can tell you that FAT definitely doesn't understand permissions whatsoever...so, it wasn't that.

Any one have a clue?

I would start by moving/renaming/deleting the /.rockbox directory (backup /.rockbox/config.cfg if you want to keep your settings) and extracting a new Rockbox binary to the device (no need to touch the bootloader, which resides in a different area of the disc altogether).

Assuming you have your media backed up elsewhere, it is absolutely safe to delete everything on the storage partition should you want to start clean. All of the Apple firmware files located thereon will be recreated the next time the device boots the Apple firmware.


[Saint]