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care to share original bootpartition.bin for 60gig 5g?

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ryran:
Long story short:
When I updated the bootloader on my ipod, something funky happened and I can no longer boot into AppleOS. I know I could download itunes or an older updater and restore my ipod and then redo everything, but I thought I'd see if I could avoid transferring all of my 50gigs off and back (using emergency disk mode, no less, oh yay).

Anyone?

linuxstb:
Download the .ipsw file for your ipod from this page (it just provides links to the official Apple download site used by itunes 7):

http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/

The .ipsw file is a zip file - unzip it, and you will have a Firmware-XXXX file.  This is the image of your firmware partition.

Credit for the page goes to fxb from the ipodlinux project.

ryran:
Dave, you rock.
I spent some time looking around on ipl's site, trying to figure out what to do with that file... but no luck so far. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Febs:
Here's what I just did, and it worked.  


* Extract the Firmware-XXXX file.
* Rename it to bootloader.bin
* Remove the Rockbox bootloader:  ipodpatcher N -d
* Write the original firmware back to the ipod:  ipodpatcher N -w bootloader.bin
* Install the RB bootloader normally:  ipodpatcher N -a bootloader-ipodvideo.ipod

GodEater:
Can I ask why you felt you should remove the bootloader with ipodpatcher before you wrote the boot paritition back ?

I'm not sure I see the point of that bit ???

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