A Public Service Announcement
Oct 22 05 | 5:15 pm
How to almost brick your under-a-week-old iPod
- Take 4th gen 20gb iPod black and white
- Install latest firmware (2005-10-12) onto iPod
- Decide you would like to install iPodLinux on your iPod
- Ignore the “The page you are viewing now is two months out of date.” message on the top of the iPodLinux wiki
- Ignore the “Warning: The iPod firmware update for 26 June 2005 will not allow you to use iPodLinux.” message on the 4th gen page of the iPodLinux wiki.
- Install iPodLinux on your iPod
- Watch as your iPod refuses to boot
- Discover that the old iPod firmware patcher will not patch back the Apple firmware on your iPod
- Tell Greg what happened, and then let him take over:
- Mount the iPod in disk mode onto a different computer running the iPod Service.
- “Restore” the iPod to working condition!