Hacking bootmii nand backup failing

[LxTrix]

I am working on a 3.1u wii and after installing the homebrew channel and bootmii i tried to do a nand backup but it keeps failing. Any ideas to fix this? It's not a lu64 so it should work

 

[linuxares]

more details please.

 

[$uPeRJjS&#0]

NAND backups aren't exactly 512mb and its around 700mb for me..... You should get a larger SD card around 2gb....


What are the error codes you are getting?

 

[Dan_Aykroyd]

The size of the backup is 528 MB

 

[$uPeRJjS&#0]

The size of the backup is 528 MB

It varies..... My back up is 700mb and my friends i 628mb its how much you have installed on your wii.... With the extra megabytes..... Bootmii and preloader is also included in the backup..... and other prgrams installed....

 

[djda]

The size of the backup is 528 MB

It varies..... My back up is 700mb and my friends i 628mb its how much you have installed on your wii.... With the extra megabytes..... Bootmii and preloader is also included in the backup..... and other prgrams installed....

Im really confused by above poster either everything i have known and been led to believe is a lie or hes poorly mistaken. all my nand backups have been 528 MBS and what really confuses me is how can you back up something that is 528 mbs (THE SIZE OF THE WIIS NAND ) and get out something larger than that like 700 MBS

Thats like saying you backed up your 1 TB HD and you had 1.5 TB of data on it.

 

[$uPeRJjS&#0]

I'll giv you proof: it was 700mb 2months but its now 540mb which means i am right it varies from people, you were saying that the size of a backup is 528mb but its not always exact.....



Is there even an answer why it varies?

 

[Jman69]

I'll giv you proof: it was 700mb 2months but its now 540mb which means i am right it varies from people, you were saying that the size of a backup is 528mb but its not always exact.....



Is there even an answer why it varies?

It doesn't vary. The size of every Wii NAND memory is 512Mb. There is some additional information included in each bootmii dump which ALWAYS brings the size to 528Mb.

In your screenshot you are forgetting that 1Mb = 1024Kb not 1000kb. Therefore the size of your dump is 540673/1024 = 528Mb. Always

 

[CursaKuma]

Ouuch

damn jman your sexy

But anyway back to the main question. LxTrix.. possible to get more info?

 

[Deleted-119707]

did you install bootmii as ios or boot2?

 

[supagusti]

It doesn't vary. The size of every Wii NAND memory is 512Mb. There is some additional information included in each bootmii dump which ALWAYS brings the size to 528Mb.

In your screenshot you are forgetting that 1Mb = 1024Kb not 1000kb. Therefore the size of your dump is 540673/1024 = 528Mb. Always

you're damn right - it can not vary. From where should the additional bits come from? Nirvana ?
If your NAND.BIN isn't exactly 553.649.152 Bytes big, it's defective.

 

[9th_Sage]

If the backup keeps failing (getting back to the question at hand) try a different SD card, or reformat the card you are using. I had that problem recently, and reformatting fixed it. Apparently there were some errors on the card.

 

[Lexip;]

Copy everything off the card
Reformat
Copy over only the bootmii folder
Backup NAND

 

[djda]

I'll giv you proof: it was 700mb 2months but its now 540mb which means i am right it varies from people, you were saying that the size of a backup is 528mb but its not always exact.....



Is there even an answer why it varies?

It doesn't vary. The size of every Wii NAND memory is 512Mb. There is some additional information included in each bootmii dump which ALWAYS brings the size to 528Mb.

In your screenshot you are forgetting that 1Mb = 1024Kb not 1000kb. Therefore the size of your dump is 540673/1024 = 528Mb. Always

LMAO wow thats just great.

And topic at hand after formatting boot the hack mii installer and re prepare your sd card for BootMii and then try it again

 

[LxTrix]

This isn't my wii in the sig its a 3.1u. Bootmii is installed as boot2. After reformatting my 2gb to fat32 i put the files back on the card. Weird thing is it says its going to overwrite existing nand but there wasn't one. Everything went okay no error messages and then when i put the card into my computer these is no nand.bin file.

 

[G0dLiKe]

Have you tried another SD Card? Maybe this helps...

 

[LxTrix]

After formatting to fat and removing boot.elf it worked.