I cant boot from my Ipod
Forum: USB booting
Topic: I cant boot from my Ipod
started by: palermi
Posted by palermi on June 21 2006,04:46
Hi, i downloaded the damn small iso But when go to apps->tools->make usb, i cant because my pendrive is not mounted. (i cant mount my pendrive ipod shuflle, how mount the pendrive?)
ok, then found this guide < http://wiki.debian.org/BootUsb > but when all the process finishes, and boot my pc, appears this message "could not find kernel image"
i try with the damn small iso , and with dsl-embedded (in this case, i copy all files)
Where is my error?
(sorry for my poor einglish)
Thankz
Posted by Zucca on June 21 2006,06:25
I belive it's because iPod uses something non-stadard file hierarchy... Or at least I've heard and read something like that.I was able to do so with my Creative MuVo nano.
Posted by palermi on June 21 2006,22:45
when connect my ipod i see this "USB-FDD"
Posted by Zucca on June 22 2006,06:58
Hmmm. In a pop-up message?
Posted by palermi on June 22 2006,12:11
no, it appears when reboot my pc.you can explain how "burn" the pendrie with damn small ?
Posted by Someone on June 23 2006,09:18
Ipod uses HFS+ (or something like that) file system, if that is not supported by dsl then you cant use it with dsl. You could always format it to fat32, but it might brake it, so don't try it unless your Ipod is ready to get killed.btw, you never used the Search button on the upper right corner? Make a search with the word "ipod"
Posted by palermi on June 23 2006,16:30
when seach about ipod in the forum, only appears this post 
Posted by Someone on June 24 2006,08:57
Yes because you searched only for this months topics, there is option to search from this years topics or for the beginning, beginning means all posts, so search again.
Posted by Telanis Blackwood on July 18 2006,17:46
Not quite an issue, yet, but my situation is similar. I have a Creative Zen Micro, 6 gigs. There's this removable drive function (you probably all already knew that), with it set to 1G. This box has XP with a 74G HD, and I can't really make the XP partition smaller, so the question is pretty much, how to get DSL onto the Zen Micro?I haven't actually tried DSL yet, but it sounds great, and I just want to be sure right now that it will work, as opposed to what happened with Mepis (see below)
P.S. To find out more about my Linux troubles, go here < http://www.mepis.org/node/10558 >
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 19 2006,00:22
If you _first_ installed your ipod on an apple machine, it will use HFS+ (not supported by DSL by default); if Windows, it will use fat32. It will then create 2 partitions, 1. the O/S ( and savestate if your ipod uses it ) ~80mb, 2. the rest for data, music, etc. (folders are hidden)I have repartitioned mine to use 1. firmware+bootloader 2. fat32 - data and rockbox o/s 3. ext2 for ipodlinux and linux data.
Given that I could do this, I wouldn't see how using a ipod would differ from using a normal usb drive - however I have not tried to install DSL on this personally (yet).
The only thing you have to confirm is if your drive is which format, and ask yourself if you want to repartition it, or convert it, etc.
Posted by Telanis Blackwood on July 19 2006,12:21
Not entirely sure if hats was referring to me, but hey, thanks anyway! Looks good here.