Hacking nintendont FS error 12?

[Linkinwormm]

So i tried to use nintendont again on my wii u without much success

I partitioned my drive with a 20GB fat32 space, put the loader and games in there as USB:/games/gameID/game.iso

but then when i run nintendont it always gets to "checking FS error 12 shutting down"

any idea whats going on? i have the HDD in the top port on the back. it is a usb 3.0 drive, but that shouldn't matter given the extra pins are not connected hence it runs as a 2.0 speed device.

 

[Deleted member 342493]

You need to post this on Nintendont thread, not here.

 

[markehmus]

first partition? primary? 64 or 32 cluster size? incompatible drive?

 

[Linkinwormm]

first partition? primary? 64 or 32 cluster size? incompatible drive?

second partition, its a WD passport so i dont want to mess up partition 1, 64k clusters

edit, i did try with a 2GB usb which worked, thats primarty and active, maybe it has to be active?

 

[markehmus]

second partition, its a WD passport so i dont want to mess up partition 1, 64k clusters

edit, i did try with a 2GB usb which worked, thats primarty and active, maybe it has to be active?

i believe most homebrew requires fat32 /primary/1st partition

On USB, only the first partition of Port0 is mounted. It can be FAT32 with 32k/cluster or less. 512 or 4k drives are supported.

 

[Linkinwormm]

i believe most homebrew requires fat32 /primary/1st partition

HBC reads the partition fine, thats what i have nintendont on....

 

[markehmus]

HBC reads the partition fine, thats what i have nintendont on....

yep , but just because HBC see's the partition , doesnt mean all homebrew will

 

[master801]

HBC reads the partition fine, thats what i have nintendont on....

Your hard-drive needs to be active, first-partition, fat32, and cluster-size 32k. Note, HBC can read fat32, and ntfs fine. However gamecube legacy software, is special, and requires these specifications.

 

[rooskie54]

HBC can read fat32, and ntfs fine.

Since when can the Homebrew Channel read NTFS drives?

 

[master801]

Since when can the Homebrew Channel read NTFS drives?

Since I did it, and said so.

 

[Cyan]

So many wrong things in this thread.

DIOS MIOS: First partition on the drive, Primary, FAT32, 32k/cluster, 512 bytes per sector only
Nintendont : First partition on the drive, Primary, FAT32, 64k/cluster, 512,1024,2048,4096 bytes per sector

Things to note:
Primary: "Primary" doesn't mean "First". Primary is a partition state (it's either Primary or Logical)
First: The very first partition on your drive. Not the partition letter on Windows, but the physical position of the partition on your drive.
Active: NOT NEEDED ! please stop telling users to set the active flag for DIOS MIOS or Nintendont. Active has nothing to do with compatibility, it's a Computer's BIOS flag. Well you can set the flag if you want, but it will not have any effect on Wii, no homebrew are using this flag.

 

[rooskie54]

Since I did it, and said so.

Alright, jerk.

It's not mentioned in the changelog: http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Channel#Changelog
And I get code dumps when I try it.

 

[master801]

Alright, jerk.

It's not mentioned in the changelog: http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Channel#Changelog
And I get code dumps when I try it.

Wah? Are you going to test it or something?

 

[Linkinwormm]

So many wrong things in this thread.

DIOS MIOS: First partition on the drive, Primary, FAT32, 32k/cluster, 512 bytes per sector only
Nintendont : First partition on the drive, Primary, FAT32, 64k/cluster, 512,1024,2048,4096 bytes per sector

Things to note:
Primary: "Primary" doesn't mean "First". Primary is a partition state (it's either Primary or Logical)
First: The very first partition on your drive. Not the partition letter on Windows, but the physical position of the partition on your drive.
Active: NOT NEEDED ! please stop telling users to set the active flag for DIOS MIOS or Nintendont. Active has nothing to do with compatibility, it's a Computer's BIOS flag. Well you can set the flag if you want, but it will not have any effect on Wii, no homebrew are using this flag.

yea i wasnt sure about the active, since as you said its a bios flag and wii u shouldnt care about that. but when i load the app, it does read the games on the second fat 32 partition, surely it shoudn't be reading it at all?

 

[Cyan]

Your first partition is maybe not primary?
I think DIOS MIOS mount the first FAT partition from the primary list.
if you have Extended[logical/logical]/Primary FAT/ Primary NTFS, then DIOS MIOS should work (I didn't test, but it should mount the first primary FAT)