The "My ipod install went wrong" Thread. **Updated 6th Aug 2007**

[GodEater]

At no point have I agreed with you that it's dead.

[reku68]

exactly there have been no definate answers and no alternate methods to try to retrieve it. and so i repeate. what do you want from me. i'v followed all the advice i've been given and i'm still stuck.

me - its dead  
u - i can virtually promise that it is not dead"
me - but nothing i've tried works
u - well this program isn't finished and this is a risk and u were warned of this before download
me - i know i blame myself. this was a risk and i guess i accept the fact that i killed it
u - i don't think that it is dead

do you see where i'm going with this. its a loop and all i want is some help or just a simple comfirmaton that yes it is dead. i read on another poast that i could try to use linux to locate the ipod. is that a good route for me to take? i have no idea what to do so you can see how frustrating this is.

[Llorean]

The thing is, Rockbox can't cause an iPod to be dead. Disk mode is always there, so if yours is dead, then you've done something else to it, or something else has failed.

But the most absolute common thing is people simply failing to do the reset procedure properly after a long charge. I cannot describe to you how many times someone has showed up in IRC, told me they've tried the reset, I've told them "you didn't do it right", they didn't believe me, I told them "It will always work unless something *physical* fails in your iPod (meaning something other than the software goes wrong), I eventually convince them to continue trying it, and their iPod turns out to be fine."

So, how many times have you tried the reset procedure, how carefully have you done it, and what exact steps did you take while doing it?

[reku68]

when the ipod was just showing the warning that it couldn't find rockbox.ipod i think the reset was working because it would go black and then flash the apple thing then go back on. then after i did it i would hold select and play to try to get to disk mode but it never seemed to go. now as i've read over some other poasts it says that you shoud do it like right after the reset which would probably have worked but i have no way of knowing because now the screen is just black. but i still try the restart from time to time but it seems like somethings wrong with the battery and it no longer is able to charge. but yes when the restart worked i tried it many times and the only thing i can guess is that i didn't do diskmode fast enough. but i don't know what to do now because it seems to be past that point.

[PJ]

Hi, I am having a problem with actioning the instruction re. the Bootloader installation from Mac OS X.
Sorry about asking questions to what might seem obvious to some.  Please help.

Trying to use the ipodpatcher.dmg (from http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/
ipod/ipodpatcher/macosx/ipodpatcher.dmg or any other link) to download and open I always end up with a webpage opeing full of text. I am not receiving a ddownload option.
The text on the page reads i.e. !!!!!!!�]D��:a�ȺĊ�/�����i���

I don't get a download or what to do with the text.

I was thinking this might be because I didn't understand the previous instruction either:
'Open up Disk Utility (in Applications
→ Utilities) and click on the name of your
player (e.g. DAVES IPOD) in the list on the left pane. Then click on the “un-
mount” icon at the top. '
WHAT UNMOUNT ICON?

Thanks.

PS. The unzipping to the .rockbox folder on the ipod went fine.

[Febs]

Trying to use the ipodpatcher.dmg (from http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/
ipod/ipodpatcher/macosx/ipodpatcher.dmg or any other link) to download and open I always end up with a webpage opeing full of text. I am not receiving a ddownload option.

This is a function of your browser.  Try right-clicking ctrl-clicking on the link and see if your browser has a "save as" function.

You also might want to try using Rockbox utility:  http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome?topic=RockboxUtility

[etien]

[PJ]

 :)Thanks for your quick reply.    Both solutions worked well for me.
Unfortunately I have hit the next hurdle. pressing the hammer and screwdriver icon left of 'Bootloader installation instructions'  I get the message ' Unsupported Bootloader Install method'.   I started the rbutil program from the mac HD, as unmounting closed the access to the ipod, (I also tried starting rbutil on the ipod and unmounted than - which makes little sense though).  All resulting in the above error message.
 (A further note, the ipod has been ordered from Apple, for windows PC setup.)

  Any idea what to do? Thanks

[aaronfg]

Hey guys, been a long time since I checked back in on Rockbox...

Anyhow, I hadn't updated my ipod 5g (30 gig) since last year maybe.  I noticed that the rockbox.ipod is now inside the .rockbox folder, interesting...

Anyhow.  I deleted everything off my ipod, copied the current build into the root.  Boot into rockbox and all looks normal (icons in the menus now?  nice!).  However, once I try to play any file, it freezes and I have to do a menu+select reboot.

Any ideas on what this could be?

EDIT: sorry, apparently in my absense I got all noobed up and forgot how to use the search function before posting questions.  *sigh*  

I found my answer here.  I needed to update my bootloader.  

[coasterfanryan]

Hello when I installed everything correctly and unplugged my iPod I got this error
Rockvox boot loader
Version: 1.1
IPOD version: 0x00C0005
SST55LD019K-45-C-MWE
Partition 1: 0x0B 1866 MB
LOADING ROCKBOX....
ERROR!
Can't load rockbox.ipod!
File not found
HOLD MENU+SELECT to
reboot then SELECT+PLAY
for disk mode  

I downloaded, extracted the most recend build, and ran the bootloader , but it doesn't work?
I am sorry if this is just a noob question.

"I am using a 2GB 1st Gen. Nano"

[LambdaCalculus]

Did you extract the archive correctly, and have a .rockbox folder sitting in the root of your nano?

[coasterfanryan]

yes.

[Llorean]

So, where exactly is the rockbox.ipod file on your player? Please type out the full path.

[Febs]

So if your ipod is drive e:, you have a folder called e:\.rockbox (with the leading dot in front of the word "rockbox") with a file inside it called rockbox.ipod?

[bluebrother]

yes.

I don't think so -- if you did you shouldn't get that error message. Anyway, I'd suggest you to try our upcoming installer: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/RockboxUtilityQt It should be able handling the complete installation correctly.