Bad boot sector signature?

[sinister]

I have gotten to the stage of where I have to backup my apple's firmware. So I did the command it gives me in the manual and I get 'Bad boot sector signature". Well I searched through the forums and found to avoid this I had to restore my iPod through iTunes. I did and I had to go through everything when I first bought my iPod giving the iPod a name etc. So after it was done restoring, it automatically uploaded my songs/videos etc. Not sure if I was supposed to let it do that, but anyways I waited for it to finish uploading my songs and videos. Then I tried the same process to adding rockbox to my iPod but when I got to adding the firmware again but I still got "Bad boot sector signature". What did I do wrong? Was I suppose to restore my iPod or  did I just restore it wrong? Thanks..

[linuxstb]

Do you have a Mac-formatted ipod?

[sinister]

yes I do.

[linuxstb]

Then you need to convert it to FAT32, as described in the install instructions.

[sinister]

What does fat32 to do ?

[sinister]

Also I searched through the whole manual for fat32 using ctrl f didn't find anything about converting it into fat32.

[linuxstb]

My apologies - I thought the manual had that information but it doesn't.  The wiki version of the install instructions explain it:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodInstallationBeta

[sinister]

Thanks I'll try what you posted and see if it works, I will post feedback here.

[sinister]

Alright another problem has errupted. I did everything it said to convert my iPod to FAT32. All it said to covert it to fat32 was to connect my iPod to a windows computer and restore it which I did. So after I plugged it into my windows computer and restored I plugged it back into my mac and started the process all over again. I got to the backing up the firmware part and got this instead now:

./ipodpatcher /dev/disk1s2 -r bootpartition.bin


[INFO] Reading partition table from /dev/disk1s2
[INFO] Sector size is 2048 bytes
[ERR]  Drive is not an iPod, aborting

What did I do wrong now?

[linuxstb]

You have a 5.5g ipod with 2048 byte sectors, not a 5g ipod with 512 byte sectors....

Unfortunately, no-one has donated a partition table from such a FAT32 formatted ipod yet, so the only option is to convert with itunes.

[sinister]

so the only option is to convert with itunes.

what do you mean by this? Is it possible for rockbox to run on my iPod....?

[linuxstb]

I've just remembered I had such an MBR file on my hard disk.  You can now find it on the wiki page and try the conversion again.

I assume you have a 30GB video ipod?  Rockbox will work fine on that (both the so-called "5g" and "5.5g" variations).  It's only the 80GB video ipod which Rockbox doesn't currently work on.

Note that you should also be using "ipodpatcher /dev/disk1", not "ipodpatcher /dev/disk1s2".

[sinister]

Yes but what do you mean convert with iTunes?
and yes I do have the 30gb version.

[linuxstb]

I meant convert to FAT32 using itunes on a Windows PC - the "easy way" mentioned in the wiki page.

[sinister]

But I already did that from the beginning.

''All it said to covert it to fat32 was to connect my iPod to a windows computer and restore it which I did"