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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 :D

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