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rockboy for b&w 4th gen iPod
longboarder:
So I used to have the iPod classic 6th gen with emcore and rockbox which allowed me to play gameboy games with their gameboy emulator but then it broke (and this was like back in 2013) now I have a older generation classic, specifically a 4th gen b&w. I do wanna dual boot iPod linux and rockbox in order to play gameboy games and still be able to play flac music files but as I haven't found any manuals on how to dual boot both and I really don't wanna risk ruining another iPod so thats why I came here to ask about a the rockboy plugin. Has rockbox made a version of rockboy for the 4th gen b&w no matter even if its in alpha or ported by a 3rd party user I'll take it. If not could someone explain in laymans or step-by-step how to dual boot the two softwares? Thanks and regards,
Thomas Hancock
saratoga:
Looking at the source, it doesn't look like rockboy is ported to the grayscale 4G, only the color model.
I wouldn't worry about installing third party software on your ipod. No matter how badly you screw it up, iTunes can just restore the player.
[Saint]:
--- Quote from: longboarder on November 11, 2016, 06:56:49 PM ---I do wanna dual boot iPod linux and rockbox in order to play gameboy games and still be able to play flac music files but as I haven't found any manuals on how to dual boot both and I really don't wanna risk ruining another iPod so thats why I came here to ask about a the rockboy plugin.
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The Rockbox bootloader for the (non-Classic 6G) iPods will boot IPL's linux.bin from disk if Play/Pause is held during boot.
[Saint]
longboarder:
I guess what I want to do is that I wanna uninstall the rockbox loader, then install iloader in place of rockbox's. Then once the loader is installed I need to find a way to add rockbox to the loader as well so I can dual boot ipod linux, rockbox, and the default os
saratoga:
--- Quote from: longboarder on November 12, 2016, 03:12:02 PM ---I guess what I want to do is that I wanna uninstall the rockbox loader, then install iloader in place of rockbox's.
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I can't remember if this is still possible or not, but its definitely not what you want to do. As [Saint] suggests, the stock rockbox bootloader can load all 3 firmwares, and is the only up to date bootloader for the old ipods.
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