i see ... although there would be no point of uninstalling... unless it is necessary or installing a new version of bootmi
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To all who have problems with bootmii.ini, the configuration file for BootMii, I have found something (a bug?) that might be interesting.
First, a little explanation on ASCII control characters for the noobs:
ASCII control characters are special, unprintable characters, like for example "TAB" or "NEW LINE". There are 32 of them in total, but only two of them are of interest when dealing with the "bug" in BootMii: "CARRIAGE RETURN" (short: CR, in hex: 0x0D) and "LINE FEED" (short: LF, in hex: 0x0A)
In Unix-type environments, lines of text files usually end with LF (0x0A) only, while in Windows environments, lines are usually ended with CRLF (0x0D0A). This often causes texts from other environments to be incorrectly rendered or interpreted.
The BootMii problem might be a variant on that problem, as the presence of CRLF caused the file to be ignored. Also, the last character of the file must apparently be LF, because otherwise, the file was still ignored.
So if you have a problem with the bootmii.ini file, open it in a hex editor, remove all 0x0D characters, and ensure that the file is ended with a single 0x0A character. That fixed it for me, and I played around with it a little, my findings are consistent with the type of possible "bug" I explained.
First, a little explanation on ASCII control characters for the noobs:
ASCII control characters are special, unprintable characters, like for example "TAB" or "NEW LINE". There are 32 of them in total, but only two of them are of interest when dealing with the "bug" in BootMii: "CARRIAGE RETURN" (short: CR, in hex: 0x0D) and "LINE FEED" (short: LF, in hex: 0x0A)
In Unix-type environments, lines of text files usually end with LF (0x0A) only, while in Windows environments, lines are usually ended with CRLF (0x0D0A). This often causes texts from other environments to be incorrectly rendered or interpreted.
The BootMii problem might be a variant on that problem, as the presence of CRLF caused the file to be ignored. Also, the last character of the file must apparently be LF, because otherwise, the file was still ignored.
So if you have a problem with the bootmii.ini file, open it in a hex editor, remove all 0x0D characters, and ensure that the file is ended with a single 0x0A character. That fixed it for me, and I played around with it a little, my findings are consistent with the type of possible "bug" I explained.
Typically I guess I'm the first to run in to a major problem.
Ran bootmii and it said I could install the hbc and dvdx but only one version of bootmii (I have a launch wii, but I guess when I sent it to nintendo they updated it). I installed those 2, and bootmii as IOS.
It wiped my SD card! Now its full of random files (I guess something to do with bootmii?) - all my apps and everything are gone.
I thought it only wiped your SD when it backs up the nand?
EDIT: Just accessed the SD card through bootmii, and the apps folder and everything else is still there, but on the homebrew channel all I get is bubbles.
It seems it cant access my SDHC card, where the old HBC could fine?
Anybody have a similar issue?
Ran bootmii and it said I could install the hbc and dvdx but only one version of bootmii (I have a launch wii, but I guess when I sent it to nintendo they updated it). I installed those 2, and bootmii as IOS.
It wiped my SD card! Now its full of random files (I guess something to do with bootmii?) - all my apps and everything are gone.
I thought it only wiped your SD when it backs up the nand?
EDIT: Just accessed the SD card through bootmii, and the apps folder and everything else is still there, but on the homebrew channel all I get is bubbles.
It seems it cant access my SDHC card, where the old HBC could fine?
Anybody have a similar issue?
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guy above me, shut the hell up and help instead of asking for stickies about it lol
and, not to be ignorant by not reading the whole 2X pages (managed 9 then stopped lol), but what is a factory bad block? managed to pick up on 11 of those when backing up my NAND... XD
but when it verifies it seems to have made those blocks green, is it writing over with good blocks or what? XD not a NAND expert so i dont know sorry.
and also, why the hell would you have already backed up your NAND 3 times? lol as long as you have one good dump you can leave it at that right?
EDIT: sorry, i meant guy above me but someone posted before i got a chance to XD in fact, looking at it, theres a whole new page from the guy i was complaining at lmao
and, not to be ignorant by not reading the whole 2X pages (managed 9 then stopped lol), but what is a factory bad block? managed to pick up on 11 of those when backing up my NAND... XD
but when it verifies it seems to have made those blocks green, is it writing over with good blocks or what? XD not a NAND expert so i dont know sorry.
and also, why the hell would you have already backed up your NAND 3 times? lol as long as you have one good dump you can leave it at that right?
EDIT: sorry, i meant guy above me but someone posted before i got a chance to XD in fact, looking at it, theres a whole new page from the guy i was complaining at lmao
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Stroganoff said:
thanks, i'll try both the options, and report back tomorrow (i'm going to bed now...)
it is indeed a very odd issue... in windows he keeps on asking to format the sd card when i try to read it after the nand dump... tried formatting to fat and fat32 in windows and doing a dump afterwards... never had any problems with the card :s
Thanks knowthing, swarmster and --=ZerO=-- for your explanations.
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Or you can use a text editor with Windows/linux conversion support. (the open source Notepad++ for example, or any other supporting linux text format)mydarxide said:
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