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Completely removing all traces of rockbox
pabouk:
The procedure described by bluebrother does not erase all the Rockbox history! The Rockobox settings are stored outside the disk partition and format does not erase them.
You have to:
a) Erase the settings after installing Rockbox again.
or
b) Erase the sector with the setings (it is the last but one sector on the first track of the HDD). You can also erase the whole disk:
--- Code: ---cat /dev/sda
--- End code ---
(replace /dev/sda by actual location of your iriver's HDD) and then repartition it again using fdisk.
cormie:
That sounds a bit complicated. What do I do with that code?
nls:
That code would go in the terminal. But before reflashing/formating (as I don't think it would help), I would try scandisk or similar on the disk to find/repair broken stuff, if that doesn't help try going back to an older build and see if the problem goes away and if it does then find out on wich date the change that broke it happened and then report! ;)
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: pabouk on October 04, 2006, 12:45:31 PM ---
--- Code: ---cat /dev/sda
--- End code ---
(replace /dev/sda by actual location of your iriver's HDD) and then repartition it again using fdisk.
--- End quote ---
errr ... this won't write anything to the disk but rather print the content of the disk to the terminal. Not nice ...
If you want to go that way, dd is the thing you need to use. Assuming the sector is also 0x3d (as it is on my h120) the command to use would be
--- Code: ---dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda skip=61 count=1
--- End code ---
But I'd suggest using the menu entry in Rockbox to clear the settings.
pabouk:
--- Quote from: bluebrother on October 04, 2006, 04:50:10 PM ---
--- Quote from: pabouk on October 04, 2006, 12:45:31 PM ---
--- Code: ---cat /dev/sda
--- End code ---
(replace /dev/sda by actual location of your iriver's HDD) and then repartition it again using fdisk.
--- End quote ---
errr ... this won't write anything to the disk but rather print the content of the disk to the terminal. Not nice ...
--- End quote ---
Sorry, I did not know that the forum eats the < and following characters. It was:
--- Code: ---cat < /dev/zero >/dev/sda
--- End code ---
I also forgot to mention that it works on UNIX type operating systems (Linux, BSD, OS X etc.). Using dd you have better control over the process of erasing (more options) of course. And yes, it is only for advanced users, the preferred option is to erase the settings in Rockbox.
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