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Mt_Gamer:
I am using Mac os x El Capitan version 10.11.3; I am sure at a 100% that it is a ipod nano 2gen;
But what I don't understand is that it says acces denied when I try to install it.

Could it be caused that I am using a FAT model ipod?

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: Mt_Gamer on March 06, 2016, 07:48:59 AM ---But what I don't understand is that it says acces denied when I try to install it.
--- End quote ---

Could be that Apple changed some things with newer versions of OS X. I currently don't have El Capitan running (might be able to set that up in a while) so it's a bit hard to say.

Generally speaking installing the bootloader to an Ipod requires direct disk access, which is something operating systems (not only OS X) are a bit not-so-fond about. That makes a lot of sense since you can damage the complete disk contents if you're doing something wrong ...


--- Quote ---Could it be caused that I am using a FAT model ipod?
--- End quote ---

No. Having the Ipod FAT formatted is actually a requirement for installing Rockbox.

One thing you can try is running ipodpatcher using sudo and see if that makes a difference (or run Rockbox Utility using sudo). Apart from that, given that the selected mountpoint is correct, I have no clear idea why it's not working, would need to try that myself.

LambdaCalculus:

--- Quote from: Mt_Gamer on March 05, 2016, 05:44:44 PM ---"/Users/EloiBonneville/Desktop/ipodpatcher ; exit;

--- End quote ---

Use "sudo" to run ipodpatcher; e.g.:

$ sudo ./ipodpatcher

bluebrother:
Ok, finally managed to get El Capitan running and try it. There's indeed a problem, seems Apple changed something with permissions. I'm not really surprised by that, but obviously it breaks installing the bootloader on Ipods.

It works fine if you run Rockbox Utility using sudo though (or use ipodpatcher, if you want to -- but if you're running something using sudo you can as well start Rockbox Utility using sudo :) )

bmwfans101:
ipodpatcher 5.0 with v4.0 bootloaders (v1.0 for 2nd Gen Nano)
(C) Dave Chapman 2006-2009
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[INFO] Read XML info (9692 bytes)
[INFO] Ipod found - Video (aka 5th Generation) ("winpod") - disk device 4
[INFO] Reading partition table from \\.\PhysicalDrive4
[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          160650      58605118     28537.3   W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[INFO] Read XML info (9692 bytes)
[INFO] Ipod model: Video (aka 5th Generation) (32MB RAM) ("winpod")
Enter i to install the Rockbox bootloader, u to uninstall
 or c to cancel and do nothing (i/u/c) :i
[INFO] Using internal bootloader - 51988 bytes
[INFO] Moving images to create room for new firmware...
 Error reading from disk: [ERR]  Write failed
: Invalid argument
[ERR]  Image movement failed.
[ERR]  --install failed.
Press ENTER to exit ipodpatcher :

this is the error i got any help anyone?

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