Installation / Removal > Apple - Installation/Removal

Accidentally lost my data partition, need help to get RB back booting

(1/1)

straylight42:
Hi there,

I've read through the forums and studied the manual section of course but I didn't find a solution to my problem: Rockbox did run fine for a long time on my 5G iPod Video (30G). Recently, I updated to the latest daily build - no problem so far. When I tried to play some albums, RB crashed with "Data Abort at XXXXXX" - so the problems started.. ;)

I did a fschk.vfat (I'm on Linux) on the data partition and I guess something went wrong - die 2nd parition was a mess afterwards. No big deal, I thought - removed the partition and created a new one.

The current problems:

1. RB won't boot. After the Apple Logo, a folder with an Apple-Support URL beneath is shown.
2. Windows and Linux can access the iPod in disk mode
3. I installed the latest iTunes to revert to factory settings - but apparently it doesn't find the iPod (though it it shown and accessable under My Computer)
4. Once, after waiting about half an hour, iTunes told me it had found an iPod in maintainance mode and as I tried to revert it didn't do anything for more than two hours.

What would you advise me to do? My guess would be a ruined partition table / MBR. Shall I delete the boot partition to start all over again or would that do only bad?

TIA for any help!

S.

David Marsh:
I managed to mess up my partitions on my 60Gb iPod Video too.  I was trying to wipe it clean and thought I'd remove the partition as this would be quicker than deleting all the files.  Gnome Partition Manager didnt want to co-operate and I ended up with no partitions on the iPod.

But I did get it back again.  All I did was boot up Windows/XP  (I normally run ubuntu linux) and start iTunes, plugged in my iPod and iTunes said my iPod needed to reset and asked if I wanted to reinstall the normal Apple Firmware with a warning that all my data would be lost.  Well this was ok with me, so I continued and everything was back to normal - minus ROCKBox.

Then just installed ROCKbox again as normal.

Not sure if this is of any help

straylight42:
Thanks. that is what I tried in the first place, with the strange result of iTunes not able to reset it.

I now tried the whole thing on my girlfriend's Windows Notebook and there it did work. Maybe because my XP installation is a little strange (I set it up after I installed Linux and the C: partition isn't C: - it's F: -- the iPod gets the letter C: when I connect it..).

Problem solved.  ;D

Navigation

[0] Message Index