Help, noob installing on 4th gen 20 gig

[Indeed]

This is what I get endlessly:

carl-burtons-powerbook-g4-15:~/Desktop ccburton$ ./ipodpatcher 1 /dev/disk2 -r bootpartition.bin
ipodpatcher 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.

Usage: ipodpatcher --scan
    or ipodpatcher device [action]

Where [action] is one of the following options:
  -l,  --list
  -r,  --read-partition   bootpartition.bin
  -w,  --write-partition  bootpartition.bin
  -rf, --read-firmware    filename.ipod
  -wf, --write-firmware   filename.ipod
  -a,  --add-bootloader   filename.ipod
  -d,  --delete-bootloader

"device" is the device node (e.g. /dev/sda) assigned to your ipod.
ipodpatcher will refuse to access a disk unless it can identify it as being
an ipod.



Any ideas??? I tried changing the "1" from numbers 0-15 and still the same thing.

[Llorean]

Remove the 1 entirely.

[Indeed]

THanks for the quick reply! Here's what I get:

carl-burtons-powerbook-g4-15:~/Desktop ccburton$ ./ipodpatcher /dev/disk2 -r bootpartition.bin
ipodpatcher 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/disk2
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[ERR]  Drive is not an iPod, aborting

[Llorean]

And this is a 4th gen iPod, that has been converted to Fat32 properly?

[Indeed]

Correct, 4th gen ipod, gray. I used the wiki Fat32 tutorial

[Indeed]

This is info copied from the diskutility app in os x:

   Mount Point :   /Volumes/CARL'S IPOD   Capacity :   18.6 GB (20,000,236,032 Bytes)
   Format :   MS-DOS File System (FAT32)   Available :   18.6 GB (19,925,254,144 Bytes)
   Owners Enabled :   No   Used :   62.2 MB (65,191,936 Bytes)
   Number of Folders :   0

[Indeed]

Ok, I reformatted into Fat32 again, because I think last time I had the level above the partition selected when I chose "erase". Does that make sense? Anyway, now I get this:

carl-burtons-powerbook-g4-15:~/Desktop ccburton$ ./ipodpatcher /dev/disk2 -r bootpartition.bin
ipodpatcher 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/disk2
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[INFO] Part    Start Sector    End Sector   Size (MB)   Type
[INFO]    0              63         80324        39.2   Empty (0x00)
[INFO]    1           80325      39054014     19030.1   W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[ERR]  Firmware partition doesn't contain Apple copyright, aborting.[ERR]  Failed to read firmware directory - nimages=-1

[Indeed]

This is what terminal lists for my ipod contents. ipod name is DISK2S2:

carl-burtons-powerbook-g4-15:/VOlumes/DISK2S2 ccburton$ ls -la
total 224
drwxrwxrwx   1 ccburton  ccburton  16384 Dec 29 21:34 .
drwxrwxrwt   7 root      admin       238 Dec 29 21:30 ..
-rwxrwxrwx   1 ccburton  ccburton   6148 Dec 29 21:39 .DS_Store
drwxrwxrwx   1 ccburton  ccburton  16384 Dec 29 21:30 .Spotlight-V100
drwxrwxrwx   1 ccburton  ccburton  16384 Dec 29 21:30 .Trashes
-rwxrwxrwx   1 ccburton  ccburton   4096 Dec 29 21:30 ._.Trashes
drwxrwxrwx   1 ccburton  ccburton  16384 Dec 28 09:54 .rockbox
drwxrwxrwx   1 ccburton  ccburton  16384 Dec 29 21:39 rockbox-ipod4gray-20061228 Folder

[linuxstb]

Does the original Apple firmware still work on your ipod?  It sounds like you wiped it from your ipod when you erased the disk the first time.

A FAT32-formatted ipod with a working Apple firmware is a pre-requisite for installing Rockbox.  Get to that stage (e.g. restore your ipod with itunes, then try the conversion to FAT32 again) and then try ipodpatcher again.

[Indeed]

Ok, that helped, but still a problem! Now rockbox appears to be trying to load when I disconnect after finishing the installation, but text fills half the screen, the last two lines being "rockbox error -1    loading original firmware" and then it reboots again and again on loop with this same mesage every time. all I can to is hold down the main button and the 'play' button on the quickwheel to force it to go into disk mode to make it stop rebooting.

[soap]

Rockbox error -1 means you have the bootloader installed correctly, but don't have the rockbox.ipod file on the root of your player.
You need to extract the .ZIPped build onto your player.

[Llorean]

Though the fact that it's not loading the original firmware, but instead reboots the bootloader suggests it's not, after all, installed correctly either.

It'll still function to load Rockbox by this point, but may not function to load the Apple OS.

[Indeed]

Worked! Thanks!

[Indeed]

Ok, sorry one more! How do I put songs onto it? The rockbox appears to load fine, but when I plug it back into my computer it doesn't appear as a drive.

[J2383]

Ok, sorry one more! How do I put songs onto it? The rockbox appears to load fine, but when I plug it back into my computer it doesn't appear as a drive.

What you need to do is go into iTunes and make sure the iPod is set to be used as a disk drive.