Hacking Bootmii help

[FreytA]

Hello everyone!

I am new(ish) to the whole wii scene... I have a question about Bootmii. I use the installer and it installs properlly (it says it on the screen) but I cannot load up Bootmii or the HBC on boot.
I have no idea how to, i presume that I have to set the settings in the bootmii.ini file so it says "AUTOBOOT=HBC" so I did that but it just loads the system menu file?

How do i fix this

Oh yeah, it also wrote to the IOS254(?) because boot2 was not writable..

P.S, i found this in the armboot.bin file on my memory card, is it meant to look like this?

mini v0.2 (%s) loading
Initializing exceptions...
Configuring caches and MMU...
IOSflags: %08x %08x %08x
%08x %08x %08x
Interrupts initialized
crypto support initialized
NAND initialized.
Initializing IPC...
Initializing SDHC...
Mounting SD...
GameCube compatibility mode detected...
Error %d while trying to mount SD
Trying to boot:/bootmii/ppcboot.elf
/bootmii/ppcboot.elf Failed to boot PPC: %d
Continuing anyway
Going into IPC mainloop...
IPC mainloop done!
Shutting down IPC...
Shutting down interrupts...
Shutting down caches and MMU...
Vectoring to 0x%08x...
IPC: Slowqueue overrun
IPC: out queue full, PPC slow/dead/flooded
IPC: unknown SLOW SYS request %04x
IPC: unknown SLOW request %02x-%04x
IPC: unknown FAST SYS request %04x
IPC: unknown FAST request %02x-%04x
IPC: IRQ but no bell!
(null) 0123456789abcdef 0123456789ABCDEF (nil) MINI/GECKO: internal error
ELF

ahb_invalidate(%d): Invalid device
ahb_flush(%d): Invalid device
ahb_flush(%d): Flush (0x%x) did not ack!
MEM: cleaning up
MEM: unprotecting memory
MEM: mapping sections
MEM: enabling caches
MEM: enabling MMU
MEM: init done
FAT FAT32 +,;[=]"*:?| DMA timeout %08x
fail.
%s: data not a multiple of %d bytes
%s: too much data
sdhc %s: base clock frequency unknown
%s: base clock frequency out of range: %u MHz
sdmmc Invalid ELF header! 0x%02x 0x%02x 0x%02x 0x%02x
ELF has no program headers!
ELF has too many (%d) program headers!
Skipping PHDR of type %d
LOAD 0x%x @0x%08x [0x%x]
PHDR out of bounds [0x%08x...0x%08x]
ELF load done, booting PPC...
PPC booted!
Invalid entry point! 0x%08x
IPC: unknown SLOW PPC request %04X
disabling EXI now...
IRQ: unknown 0x%08x

Exception %d (%s):
Registers (%p):
R0-R3: %08x %08x %08x %08x
R4-R7: %08x %08x %08x %08x
R8-R11: %08x %08x %08x %08x
R12-R15: %08x %08x %08x %08x
SPSR: %08x
CPSR: %08x
CR: %08x
TTBR: %08x
DACR: %08x
Abort type: %s
Domain: %d
Address: 0x%08x
Code dump:
%08x: %08x %08x %08x %08x
%08x: *%08x %08x %08x %08x
RESET UNDEFINED INSTR SWI INSTR ABORT DATA ABORT RESERVED IRQ FIQ (unknown exception type) UNDEFINED Alignment Translation External abort Domain External abort on translation (first level) Permission External abort on translation (second level) IPC: unknown SLOW AES request %04x
IPC: unknown SLOW CRYPTO request %04x
ECC stats for NAND page 0x%x: %d uncorrectable, %d corrected
NAND: Spare buffer 0x%08x is not aligned, data will be corrupted
NAND: Error on wait
Error: nand_erase to page %d forbidden
Error: nand_write to page %d forbidden
NAND: previous IPC request is not done yet. IPC: unknown SLOW NAND request %04x
NAND: Error on IRQ
Got IRQ for unknown NAND req %d
booting boot2 with title %08x-%08x
patched data @%08x
Wrong number of patches (matched %d times, expected 1), panicking
boot2 is at 0x%08x
IPC: unknown SLOW BOOT2 request %04X
tried to read %d boot2 bytes (%d pages), but only %d blocks (%d pages) are valid!
boot2 page %d (NAND 0x%x) is uncorrectable
boot2 map candidate page 0x%x is uncorrectable, trying anyway
found valid boot2 blockmap at page 0x%x, submap %d, generation %d
no valid boot2 blockmap found!
invalid boot2 copy %d
boot2 blocks: %02x error while reading boot2 header invalid boot2 header size 0x%x
boot2 tmd size mismatch: expected 0x%x, got 0x%x (more than one content?)
boot2 tik size mismatch: expected 0x%x, got 0x%x
error while reading boot2 certs/tmd/ticket boot2 title key: %08x%08x%08x%08x
boot2 content size: 0x%x (padded: 0x%x)
error while reading boot2 content boot2 copy %d loaded to %p
failed to load boot2 copy 0, trying copy 1...
failed to load boot2 copy 1!
sdmmc: READ: no card inserted.
sdmmc: new card inserted but not acknowledged yet.
sdmmc: MMC_SELECT card failed with %d for %d.
sdmmc: READ: cannot select card.
sdmmc: MMC_READ_BLOCK_MULTIPLE failed for card %d with %d
abortion kthx
sdmmc: powerup failed for card %d
sdmmc: could not enable clock for card %d
sdmmc: GO_IDLE_STATE failed with %d for card %d
sdmmc: card %d failed to powerup.
sdmmc: MMC_ALL_SEND_CID failed with %d for card %d
CID: mid=%02x name='%c%c%c%c%c%c%c' prv=%d.%d psn=%02x%02x%02x%02x mdt=%d/%d
sdmmc: SD_SEND_RCA failed with %d for card %d
sdmmc: MMC_SEND_CSD failed for card %d with %d
csd: %02x sdmmc: sdhc mode, c_size=%u, card size = %uk
taac=%u nsac=%u read_bl_len=%u c_size=%u c_size_mult=%u card size=%u bytes
calculated timeout = %uns
sdmmc: MMC_SET_BLOCKLEN failed with %d for card %d
sdmmc: MMC_APP_CMD failed for card %d with %d
sdmmc: SD_APP_SET_BUS_WIDTH failed for card %d with %d
n_cards(%d) >= %d!
starlet is soo going to crash very soon...

 

[supermodchips]

Because you could not install it onto boot2 is the reason why you are not able to load it on start up.

 

[FreytA]

Because you could not install it onto boot2 is the reason why you are not able to load it on start up.

SO is there anyway to backup from a brick if i get one? (i'm confused now!)

 

[oops_ur_dead]

No, only if you install it as boot2

 

[FreytA]

No, only if you install it as boot2

oh crap! thanks a lot (i think, lol!)

I am guessing i can't/shouldn't use preloader then?

 

[supermodchips]

You can still use preloader.

 

[PBC]

I think if you have preloader you can get atleast some brick protection even if you have bootmii as an IOS and not boot2.

Make a nand backup.

If anything goes wrong I'd assume you could load preloader...use that to boot HBC. In HBC you can get to bootmii and from there load on the nand back up.

Someone correct me if that is wrong.