New Bootloader and Installation Procedures - please test and give feedback

[linuxstb]

@fasmaie, Pancho_DJ,

I'm not sure yet what the problem is.  Someone just came to IRC with the same problem - on a Photo, and he said he hadn't updated the firmware recently either.

So the common factor so far seems to be old versions of the Apple firmware.  I'm running v1.2 of the Apple firmware on my Photo, and it works fine.  Most other testing (all successful) has been on Nanos and Videos.

Has anyone successfully used ipodpatcher and the latest bootloader with an older ipod running an older firmware?

[Kreator666]

It does not seem to work on my iPod 4G greyscale.

I went through the installation instructions from the new procedure. Used the latest (19/12/2006) build. After installation of the bootloader, RockBox boots fine, but I cannot boot into the Apple firmware at all.

When the hold button is on, I get the "booting into original firmware" message, then the process halts and the system reboots. This cycles if the hold button is kept on, and boots into RockBox if the hold button is off (not surprisingly).

It seems like the original firmware is not accessible to the bootloader, and when it is not found, it just reboots.

Just in case this is needed: I have a 20 GB, 4th Gen greyscale iPod. I use it on a mac, but it is Windows formatted.

Exactly the same happens on my 4G iPod (used on Windows, though).

Sounds like a problem with iPodPatcher's append function (for the older iPods) to me.

[linuxstb]

Would someone experiencing problems be able to run the following commands (on a clean firmware partition - one in the factory condition) and send me the output (a PM is fine).

ipodpatcher [device] -v --list
ipodpatcher [device] -v -a bootloader-ipodXXXX.ipod
ipodpatcher [device] -v --list

Thanks.

[Pancho_DJ]

well i did everythink, as the manual said but i have the same problem:

ipodpatcher --scan
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ipodpatcher [1] -r bootpartition.bin
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error openinig disk: El sistema no puede hallar el archivo especificado

maybe is something that I missing, but I tried a few times so maybe is not me.

[Llorean]

Try:
ipodpatcher 1 -r bootpartition.bin

[Pancho_DJ]

thanks.... it worked!!!

on the manual said [device]... so thats what I did, but the problem has been solved

[defgeoff]

my problem is under step 2a) when i click the link next to "Mac OSX (Universal Binary)" i just get sent to a page with the source code for the file.

when i right click and click "save linked file to desktop" it just saves a text file called ipodpatcher.txt.

what i need is the real file... if that makes any sense.

[ipod_video12]

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodInstallationBeta is this the new software

[linuxstb]

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodInstallationBeta is this the new software

As stated in the first post of this thread, yes.

[fasmaie]

defgeoff---

You can try and click on the link. You will get a page of code (according to your mail). Wait until it has finished loading completely. Then save it from the 'file' menu in your browser. This should give you a file called ipodpatcher. Make it executable (chmod +x), and you should be good to go.

Hope it works.

[Chronon]

Does this mean there will be a different method for clearing settings?  Previously booting with "Hold" on would cause settings to be cleared.  I guess this can still be done via the menus so maybe it's not a big deal.

[linuxstb]

Does this mean there will be a different method for clearing settings?  Previously booting with "Hold" on would cause settings to be cleared.  I guess this can still be done via the menus so maybe it's not a big deal.

No, the hold switch still clears the settings.  The difference now is that you need to turn the hold switch on between the time the bootloader starts, and the time Rockbox starts.

[jamesmh]

So you have a comment in section g) (troubleshooting) about how "rockbox error -1" seems to be the most common problem.  I'd love to see what content is going into this section, because that's the problem that I am having.

I have an iPod mini 2G, and it will not boot with the new firmware.  The full output when I boot is as follows:

Rockbox boot loader
Version: 20061220-0911
IPOD version: 0x0007000
ST660211CF
Partition 1: 0x0B 5820
Rockbox error : -1
Loading original firmwa

And then it freezes and never loads the "original firmware"  Below is the output of when I write the new firmware to disk.

Any help is appreciated.

iroot@garage:/home/jamesmh# ./ipodpatcher /dev/sda -a bootloader-ipodmini2g.ipod
podpatcher v0.5 - (C) Dave Chapman 2006
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] Reading partition table from /dev/sda
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[INFO] Part    Start Sector    End Sector   Size (MB)   Type
[INFO]    0              63         32129        15.7   Empty (0x00)
[INFO]    1           80325      12000554      5820.4   W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[INFO]    2           32130         80324        23.5   Linux (0x83)
[INFO] Ipod model: 2nd Generation Mini
[INFO] Checksum OK in bootloader-ipodmini2g.ipod
[INFO] Reading original firmware...
[INFO]  Wrote 3458048 bytes to firmware partition
[INFO] Bootloader bootloader-ipodmini2g.ipod written to device.

[Llorean]

Error: -1 means that it can't find rockbox.ipod in the root of the device.

[jamesmh]

Right, thanks.  Bootloader working.