[Ipodlinux-devel] Re: ipodloader 0.3 released

[Ben <ro...@no...>]

Hello all, 

Just received my beutiful little iPod, acktually a week ago, one of the 3rd 
generation 40 GB versions. Looks nice, good batery time, and I have to admit 
the wheel is a grand idea, as I am certain you all know that the neatness of 
all these things are canceld out by the crapy idea of using this Music match 
box system. They should have lernt from arcos and just used a simple mp3 
player with a file system interface, not the database (dont know exactly how 
it works, havent had time to look at it), so off cause I am going to install 
the Linux version, acktually not only because I find theire interface 
solution idiotic, but because I can, or can I. 

Read somthing about G3 kernel being a bit strange, tried to check it before 
I bought the machine, but never managed to find anything about it, and just 
wanted to check that I understod it correctly from dear mister Bernard Leach 
comment. 

> Note, although this bootloader will run on the newer iPods the Linux
> kernel still doesn't boot correctly there (if you disable firewire it
> probably works a little bit though :).

And I know that I should have looked a bit longer to try to find assurance 
that it supports the 3 generation versions. But at least I have somthing to 
play with now :) 


Regards Ben 

Bernard Leach writes: 

> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> just a short note to announce the "official" release of the iPod boot
> loader.  After some great work by Daniel we've managed to get a stable
> and workable bootloader that allows you to selectively boot either the
> Apple or the Linux firmware.  Not only that but I've included a simple
> image display to bring Tux back to your iPod! 
> 
> <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73079> 
> 
> Note, although this bootloader will run on the newer iPods the Linux
> kernel still doesn't boot correctly there (if you disable firewire it
> probably works a little bit though :). 
> 
> cheers,
> bern. 
> 
>  
> 
> 
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