Specifications

Chapter 2. Installation 16

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

In order to install the bootloader, you will need to download the following ﬁles:

• An original ﬁrmware (OF) from http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/Clip-Clip/Sansa-

Clip-Firmware-Update-01-02-15/td-p/150227

• The bootloader: http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/clipplus/

bootloader-clipplus.sansa

• The version of mkamsboot for your operating system from http://download.rockbox.

org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/mkamsboot/

2.2.3. Bootloader installation from Windows

1. Create a folder called “rbinstall” on your desktop, and then extract the OF, the

bootloader and mkamsboot into it.

2. Open a new command prompt, and navigate to the “rbinstall” folder.

3. Run mkamsboot.exe, passing the name of the OF and bootloader ﬁles that you

downloaded, in addition to a name for the output ﬁle.

Code

mkamsboot.exe clppa.bin bootloader-clipplus.sansa patched.bin

If mkamsboot.exe does not report success, then retry or abort.

4. Copy the output ﬁle (“patched.bin” in the example given above) to the root of

the device and rename it to the same name as the OF ﬁle you downloaded earlier

(“clppa.bin” above).

2.2.4. Bootloader installation from Mac OS X and Linux

1. Create a folder called “rbinstall” in your home directory, and then extract the OF,

the bootloader and mkamsboot into it.

2. Open a new terminal, and navigate to the “rbinstall” folder.

3. Run mkamsboot, passing the name of the OF and bootloader ﬁles that you down-

loaded, in addition to a name for the output ﬁle.

Code

./mkamsboot clppa.bin bootloader-clipplus.sansa patched.bin

The Rockbox manual (version rUnversioned directory-150516) Sansa Clip+