Uninstall from 5g iPod on Ubuntu linux

[kilgore_trout]

Love the rockbox and the wealth of settings, but I am going to switch back to the familiar apple firmware until I have some more time to really get comfortable with the rockbox interface.

I followed the uninstall instructions in the manual, first by deleting the rockbox.ipod file from the ipod itself.  I also deleted all of the associated files (the .rockbox directory)

However, I'm stumped on how to replace the bootloader.  It seems like these instructions are for windows only?  I can't run 'ipodpatcher' from the terminal since there is no executable of that name in the Rockbox directory in my home directory.  Should I run ipod_fw with the same arguments as shown in the manual?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Febs]

Why not just boot into the Apple firmware by holding Menu after turning the player on?

[kilgore_trout]

Thanks Febs,

It actually does boot into the apple firmware automatically after displaying the rockbox text and error -1.

Just wanted to clean up the process a little bit.

Would the "easiest" way to accomplish this be to restore the ipod?  I have all of the files backed up on my hard drive so I wouldn't lose any data.  

However, if this is the case, I will probably just leave the bootloader as is so I can easily add the rockbox files when I am ready to come back to it.  (I may have just answered my own question.)

Just looking for any opinions.

[frause]

Do you have the original bootloader backed up? If so,

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dd if=bootpartition.bin of=/dev/sd?1

where "sd?" is your ipod, and "bootpartition.bin" is the original bootpartition.
Do a backup of the current one before, though.

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dd if=/dev/sd?1 of=rockboxboot.bin

[kilgore_trout]

Yep, got the original bootloader backed up as bootpartition.bin.

Thanks Frause, this looks like exactly what I need.  I'll give this a shot tonight.