Chapter 2. Installation
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Note:
The entire contents of the
.zip
file should be extracted directly to the root of
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your player’s drive. Do not try to create a separate directory on your player for the
Rockbox files! The
.zip
file already contains the internal structure that Rockbox needs.
If the contents of the
.zip
file are extracted correctly, you will have a directory called
.rockbox
, which contains all the files needed by Rockbox, in the main directory of your
player’s drive.
Installing the bootloader
Installing the bootloader is the trickiest part of the installation. As explained above, we
cannot distribute the bootloader directly, and thus need to patch a compatible version
of the MPIO firmware, which can be downloaded as described above.
1. Download official Rockbox bootloader for MPIO HD300 from
rockbox.org/bootloader/mpio/hd300
and save it to your desktop. The archive con-
tains three files: bootloader.mpio, bootloader.map and rockbox-info.txt. The first
file is actual bootloader, two others can be used for debugging and are irrelevant
for end user.
2. Download mkmpioboot utility from
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/mpio/
3. Process previously downloaded official firmware to include rockbox bootloader.
Open terminal window and type the following command:
Code
mkmpioboot HD300_UPG.SYS bootloader.mpio HD300_UPG.rb
4. Copy
HD300_UPG.rb
to the SYSTEM folder of your player and rename back to
HD300_UPG.SYS
5. Safe eject your player
6. Connect Wall charger and turn on the device. This should trigger firmware upgrade
process which will install rockbox bootloader to the flash memory of the player.
2.2.3. Finishing the install
2.2.4. Enabling Speech Support (optional)
If you wish to use speech support you will also need a voice file. Voice files allow Rockbox
to speak the user interface to you. Rockbox Utility can install an English voice file, or
you can download it from
http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml
and unzip it to the root
of your player. Rockbox Utility can also aid you in the creation of voice files with
different voices or in other languages if you have a suitable speech engine installed on
your computer. Voice menus are enabled by default and will come into effect after a
The Rockbox manual
(version 3.14)
MPIO HD300
