Comments on: BootMii beta 1

By: emailtoid.net/i/52158e4f/…

emailtoid.net/i/52158e4f/… — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:13:09 +0000

Even though I have no skill in this field, I can solve a few problems. If you want bootmii to boot on a time dely/ directly to the sys. menu or hbc, you need the hbc app bootmii configuration editer.

It can be found on the homebrew browser and is easy to use.

In it, you can change screen output type(pal/ntsc), what you want to boot to(sys.menu,hbc,or off) *off if you want bootmii to stay on screen*, and how long till your choice boots(0-10 sec)0 for instint boot,10is good if you still need to use bootmii.

Note:this also effects starting bootmii from hbc

By: marcusw@cox.net

marcusw@cox.net — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:46:17 +0000

master5o1: You don’t even need to have a “backup SD”: you can do the backup, save NAND.bin to your hdd, and then use the sd card for other stuff until you brick your wii and need to restore it (when you would simply copy the file back to the sd card and restore it just like you normally would, even if you’ve reformatted the card in the meanwhile (as long as it’s still FAT16, of course))

By: master5o1

master5o1 — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:39:02 +0000

donsch, probably best if you switch to a different sd card (say, 1gb) for the NAND backup so that you have a backup SD and a regular SD/HC

By: donsch

donsch — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:56:09 +0000

ok a little more details. Reformatted my 8gb card and no more lock ups. The default label on the card was extremely long, I simplified it to under 8 characters and bootmii liked the new combination.

The odd thing was I decided to backup my nand with Bootmii backup and it wanted to reformat my sd card again saying something about a bad OEMname. I let it format, and the backup worked fine. After that I restored my APPS directory, but HBC was a blank blue screen.

The files were there but HBC couldn’t see them, however bootmi could still see the files when browsing the CD card. I switched SD cards to the 2gb that wouldn’t work at all, and bootmii could browse the files fine, it just won’t boot.

Oh well, I got to see all the nice features of bootmii, and can’t wait until the final release. I can’t imagine how tough it might be increasing compatibility.

By: harningt

harningt — Mon, 25 May 2009 03:00:35 +0000

Thought I’d post my status: The report-tool issued earlier didn’t work, however a boot2 install of this worked w/o a hitch and as well a NAND backup (w/ no bad blocks!) looking forward to WiiMote support + more tools + (if no wiimote support) a nicer mechanism for the non-wii-hackers to use it w/ perhaps a timeout mechanism to zoom onto normal behavior.

By: donsch

donsch — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:34:32 +0000

I have 3 SD cards to test with and all 3 give differnt results. The 1gb MAX Trans Mem (one side SD the other side USB) is my util/test card and it works fine but has about a 15 second delay as others have mentioned.

My 2gb ativa 60x card flat does not work. After installing bootmii I never progress past a black screen with this card installed. If I press the 1 or 2 button at the right time I will get the Health and Safety screen. Once booted, this 2gb card is my over all best performer in the wii, homebrew is faster, and loading wiiware from the SD works great (yes, I’m on menu 4.0 with everything working), just doesn’t work with bootmii.

My 3rd SD card is an 8gb Sansdisk which pops the bootmii menu nearly instantly, very fast, but freezes on that screen. I think through all my testing it is possible I corrupted this card, so I’ll reformt and try again to see if results change.

I would suspect my bootmii install was corrupt except that it works with my 1gb card. The fact that my main card, the one that stays in the wii, will not boot after installing bootmii concerns me the most. It would be best if I could uninstall bootmii for my wife’s sake. I am happy to have had a chance to test bootmii, it has incredible potential.

By: emailtoid.net/i/69fad7a4/

emailtoid.net/i/69fad7a4/ — Sat, 23 May 2009 05:00:53 +0000

@107: You may have figured this out by now, but the Wiimote doesn’t currently work with BootMii. As an alternative you can use the power/reset buttons to change to different things on the menu if you don’t have/don’t want to hook a GCN controller up. It’s possible it could work in the future, but it sounds like it would be a lot of work so I wouldn’t expect it just yet.

By: marcusw@cox.net

marcusw@cox.net — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:34:43 +0000

Sorry to double post, but…
Regarding comment 106, I did a bit more testing and found that it isn’t a crazy thing with the last way the hbc was loaded (it seemed improbable from the start), but actually has to do with whether the wii starts from a hard reset last time it was shut down (hold power button for 4 seconds) or from a normal power-down (turning it off by briefly pressing the power button or using the bower button on the wiimote). The latter works, the former doesn’t.

BTW, I’m the same person as the person who posted comment 106, but I’ve changed my name to something a bit more meaningful.

By: emailtoid.net/i/4df95b17/…

emailtoid.net/i/4df95b17/… — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:19:14 +0000

Hey, I think I found a bug:
If you go anywhere in the bootmii menu (main menu, or any submenu) and then shut down the power of the wii (by holding the power button down for 4 seconds), then the homebrew channel will not boot from the bootmii menu, even if I power down the wii and boot again from a cold start. All it does when I try to load the hbc is show a distorted version of the hbc “Loading” screen and then freezes. The only way I have found to fix it is to go to the wii menu and click on the homebrew channel and load it that way. Then, if I boot to bootmii and select the hbc channel, it works fine (until I turn the power off at the bootmii menu, then the bug is back). I think that this is very detrimental to the anti-brick capabilities of bootmii, because it means that you can’t reliably start the hbc (and hence the anytitle deleter) without using the system menu (unless you are very careful not to power down the wii from the bootmii menu until you unbrick your wii).
I have also noticed that the wiimote will not work in the bootmii menu, so I have to use the Eject/Power/Reset buttons or a gcn controller instead. If I press a button, it flashes the lights at me for a while, but doesn’t connect. I was wondering if this was intentional?
I have v4.0u and I installed hbc/dvdx/bootmii with the hackmii installer. I haven’t messed with any wads or done anything stupid, like installed a bunch of stupid channels (the only unofficial one I have is the hbc :p).

Thank you for this awesome stuff!

By: Deozaan

Deozaan — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:09:04 +0000

Sorry to double-post. I forgot to mention that it isn’t clear in the readme (or anywhere) that you can press the Power button on the Wii to cycle through the menu options and the Reset button to perform the selected action. That would be nice information to know.

Otherwise you will turn on your wii and be unable to control it with the Wiimote, remember something about using a GameCube controller to navigate the menu, plug in the GCN controller and be unable to do anything, and think your Wii is broken forever.

Thanks again!