Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] Partition Information

[Paul B. <pa...@co...>]

On Friday 12 November 2004 03:13, Frogbert Gladstone wrote:
> After successfully borking my entire Ipod by using the windows linux
> installer I am at a loss at what to do. I have a number of theorys
> that each require a little bit of assistance from you people.
>
> The situation is this, the Ipod (3g 20gb) boots, shows the apple logo,
> then promptly shows the folder with the x above it. It says like that
> for a few seconds, reboots and trys again. I can't seem to force it
> into disk mode but perhaps i'm doing it wrong (Resetting by turning
> hold on/off then holding menu and play pause. Then I hold ff and
> rewind when the apple logo appears) or whether it resets before I have
> a change to do it properly.

Are you sure it's a 3g ipod? If it's a 4g (clickwheel) ipod you need to hold 
down select and play as it reboots to get into disk mode.

> If I plug it into the firewire port I get a do not disconnect message
> followed by a tick and a safe to disconnect message. The same thing
> happens with the usb cord however the computer claims it has an
> unknown usb device attached.
>
> My first question is, is the disk mode code stored on the hard disk or
> the bios? If it is on the hard disk it is conceivable I ca'nt get into
> it because I've overwritten something bad.

The disk-mode code is stored is part of the ipod bios, and is not stored on 
the disk.

> Assuming I am going about getting into disk mode all wrong and I can
> get into it, I could possibly use the apple update to fix the
> partitions no?

Yes.

> If I cant get into disk mode it looks like I'm going to have to open

You should be able to get it into disk mode. If it's in continuous-reboot mode 
as you describe above you should just need to hold the magic keypress (ff+rew 
or select+play) for 10-20 seconds.

Paul