Is there anyway of changing Bootmii from boot1 to boot2?
cus I have it installed as IOS and it doesnt give me the option to install it to boot2

I mean isnt it pointless installing it in IOS?, cus if u bricked the wii u cant get back into the homebrew channel to boot up bootmii, where as in boot2 it boots straight away?

On my wii, in the hackmii installer..it says 'The installed boot1 version prevents a boot2 install (-2)' so is there a way to delete the boot1 version to install the boot2 version?



edit#..nevermind....just found something about having a preloader first.......is it worth having this preloader and could it brick the wii?

 

boot1 and boot2 are not the same thing. The Wii has a multi-step boot chain, and boot1 is run before boot2 is. It will be impossible to change boot1, unless SHA-1 gets completely broken.

Preloader and BootMii, like other things that touch the NAND, can brick your Wii. You are unlikely to get bricked unless you're an idiot that runs said homebrew during a thunderstorm. Preloader is the second-to-best brick preventer, behind BootMii. As mentioned above, you can use Preloaderto go into the Homebrew Channel and run BootMii/IOS.

 

BootMii is not installed in boot1. If you read that more carefully, its talking about the "installed boot1 version" meaning your version of boot1 does not allow changes to boot2. Not that BootMii is INSTALLED in boot1 (which it cannot be).

 

You CAN, but it will tell you it is too dangerous to continue and to press A+B+X+Y if you want to continue with the risk anyways. It has been tested to still work fine, but it's still probably not the best solution you can do if you can get to it at all. Generally if you have a brick in such a way that preloader and the HBC still work, you can most likely still fix it without having to resort to a NAND restore through the IOS version anyways. Restoring your NAND through the IOS version should only be a last resort to fix something, but it does give you that one last option when all else fails.

 

The last post is from 2009. I don't think this needed revisiting. :/

 

Dude, you're responding to a post that's 8 years old. Don't.

 

You cant just "install it to boot1", boot1 (and boot0) are burned on a ROM chip, so it means you cant write data to them.
But boot2 isnt a ROM, so thats why you can install bootmii to it.
The boot1 has a flaw/exploit that allows us to get unsigned code execution early at boot by installing a custom boot2 (or something like that), and the newer wiis that were menufactured after mid-2008 (like yours), have a newer version of boot1 that doesnt have this flaw, so the bootmii installer detects it and makes you install bootmii to an available ios (and without brick protection, because the ios's are in the NAND).
So tl;dr, no, you cant.
Hope that helps and have a nice day..!