ipodpatcher problems

[johngicu]

well, i had rockbox, and podzilla series till yeserday when i "cleaned" my pod. I restored it with Itunes 7. Now when i try to install rockbox, ipodpatcher doesen't recognize my pod. Same thing happends with ipodpather from ipodlinux.org or installer 2.3w. I read on ipodlinux that with the new firmware from Itunes 7 their ipodpatcher doesen't work

Is there any solution to put rockbox back on my pod again?
Tks

[linuxstb]

No-one else has reported similar problems, so unless Apple have released a new firmware in the last few days, it is almost certainly something you're doing wrong.

Did you restore using itunes on a Mac or itunes on Windows?  Rockbox (and ipodpatcher) require a FAT32 formatted ipod.

[johngicu]

I have Ipod Color, Fat32. Yesterday I restored it with Itunes 7.02 the latest, and at "About" in apple os it says firmware version 1.21 and also Format Windows.

I know what I'm saying. I installed Rockbox and/or Podzilla manually/or not countless times. When i do ipodpatcher --scan or ipodpatcher x, where x is 0, 1 etc no ipod is found.

[linuxstb]

Do you have Cygwin installed, or access to a Linux or Mac OS X computer?

[johngicu]

I have Suse 10

[linuxstb]

Can you try the Linux version of ipodpatcher?  It should work the same way as Windows (including --scan), but needs the disk device name (e.g. /dev/sda) instead of the number.

If that also doesn't work, then can you identify your ipod (type "fdisk -l" as the root user) and then copy the first 2MB of your ipod's hard disk to a file using the following command (this assumes /dev/sda is your ipod):

dd if=/dev/sda count=4096 of=test.bin

and then upload that test.bin somewhere for me to look at?

Thanks.

[johngicu]

here are the first 128k of my ipod (forum doesen't alow me to upload more), but i thing it's enough
I looked at the file and ie seems to be some grub   there. if that's the problem how do i get it out of there?

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[linuxstb]

Yes, 128KB was enough.

As you suspected, the problem is your MBR - the first sector on the disk.  ipodpatcher is paranoid and does a lot of checks to ensure it only writes to ipods, and the MBR is one check.  Your MBR is completely different to the standard ipod MBR.

This is easily fixed though.  Download the appropriate MBR (matching your ipod model and disk size) from

http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/ipod/

and then (in Linux) write it to your ipod with the command

dd if=mbr-xxx.bin of=/dev/sda

(obviously replacing /dev/sda with your ipod's device)

[johngicu]

the MBR was the problem. I fixed it! tks
I now have rockbox again