Hacking BootMii

[Cooler89]

Mine is 528 as well my backup

 

[Satangel]

I'll wait till some updates appear.
I've got preloader anyway atm

 

[Cooler89]

Nvm, you do need the folder called bootmii if you have installed as IOS

 

[pika9323]

Bootmii is awesome.
I got a Nand Backup with zero (!!!!) Bad Blocks WOOT!! =)

 

[FGOD]

the bootmii folder is to boot into bootmii... so once removed from the sd you cannot boot into bootmii untill you place the folder back into the sd card...

anybody has any idea on how to get the sd card be read on pc after the format/backup with the bootmii nand dumper? i cannot back it up to pc as the sd card cannot be read on pc :s

 

[tenpmetabg]

nvm

 

[kedest]

the bootmii folder is to boot into bootmii... so once removed from the sd you cannot boot into bootmii untill you place the folder back into the sd card...

anybody has any idea on how to get the sd card be read on pc after the format/backup with the bootmii nand dumper? i cannot back it up to pc as the sd card cannot be read on pc :s

bootmii will format the card to fat32. your computer should be able to read that just fine

 

[jonas18z]

How do you backup the nand backup SD card to computer?

1.copy all files?
2. make a iso with ultra iso or similar?
3. not possible?

 

[kedest]

How do you backup the nand backup SD card to computer?

1.copy all files?
2. make a iso with ultra iso or similar?
3. not possible?

it creates 1 big nand.bin file. you can just copy that

 

[Stroganoff]

anybody has any idea on how to get the sd card be read on pc after the format/backup with the bootmii nand dumper? i cannot back it up to pc as the sd card cannot be read on pc :s

That's odd. Does the SD partition appear in Disk Management? (start -> run -> compmgmt.msc -> disk management)
Also try to access it with a Linux LiveCD (e.g. Knoppix).

 

[--=ZerO=--]

nvm

yeah...don't know. but with BootMii it's just much more comfortable to do so...

just restore a backup... Made Backups of 3.2 and 4.0 now. Now i can
switch between them in about 5 min... I find this much comfortable and great.

 

[TrickyTony]

Vidboy, dont stress the haters.... Thanks for trying to help people. You are looking to help and thats all that matters....

Last thing can this be installed as BOTH boot2, and an ios like one wont overwrite/overpower the other?

Thanks for the support mate, but i dont knoe if you can install boot2 as a wad. I think if a Ninty Copyrighted file so i think i cant post it.

How did you make more than 1 backup... different SD cards?

 

[tenpmetabg]

nvm

yeah...don't know. but with BootMii it's just much more comfortable to do so...

just restore a backup... Made Backups of 3.2 and 4.0 now. Now i can
switch between them in about 5 min... I find this much comfortable and great.

I have read that writing-erasing NAND too much can be damageable... mind it !

 

[MikeyTaylorGaming]

lol how do u uninstall preloader on 4.o rather hve bootmii lol
just keep it. god, two protections are better than one (although not in condoms(dont forget that kids

))

QUOTE(Joesalad21 @ May 13 2009, 07:52 PM) You may want to see this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBZPl-ZtSaU

Nice. I've been meaning to delete my system menu in celebration of BootMii's release but was waiting to see if it worked for others before doing so. Awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am2sN3ghd5M...feature=related

lmao watched that with my girl a few days ago in english. that guy is huge XD love it when he's dancin with those glow sticks in a club and drugged up accidentally, makes me laugh every time lol

 

[pack21]

hello,

i want to buy a wii,

To run the bootmii did i must have a chip?

What is the best chip: Wiikey or Wiikey2 or D2Pro? or considere another chip?

Please help me, i'am blindness in this!

thanks by advance

 

[FenrirWolf]

nvm

yeah...don't know. but with BootMii it's just much more comfortable to do so...

just restore a backup... Made Backups of 3.2 and 4.0 now. Now i can
switch between them in about 5 min... I find this much comfortable and great.

I have read that writing-erasing NAND too much can be damageable... mind it !

Is this confirmed? I've dumped my NAND 3 times now.

 

[KTroopA]

create a file on your SD card in /bootmii/bootmii.ini (or open it if it's already there) and type this:
AUTOBOOT=SYSMENU

if you want it to boot to HBC just replace SYSMENU with HBC.
Next time you turn on your wii, it'll show BootMii, then after 5 seconds it will automagicallly start the system menu

If you want to stop it from autobooting, just use the GC controller directional keys.
I don't know about having both bootmii and preloader.

i have this in my boot.ini file

VIDEO=NTSC
AUTOBOOT=SYSMENU

but when bootmii loads up it just sits on the meu screen - it doesnt go thru to the wii system menu. do u need to delete the comments from the file, or am i missing spaces. tried everything. it just sits there on the bootmii screen. please help

 

[--=ZerO=--]

nvm

yeah...don't know. but with BootMii it's just much more comfortable to do so...

just restore a backup... Made Backups of 3.2 and 4.0 now. Now i can
switch between them in about 5 min... I find this much comfortable and great.



I have read that writing-erasing NAND too much can be damageable... mind it !



Well... your right somehow... A NAND Cell/Block can take about 2.000.000 write/delete cycles before it will
be destroyed... (This does mean you could overwrite your NAND 10 times a day for 547 years before your NAND would be damaged) In tests some NAND Devices got damaged after 16.000.000 write/delete cycles...
Every NAND Device has some extra Blocks to "replace" bad blocks... After all the life span of an hdd is less then NAND.
And it's normal to have some bad blocks. every, or almost every, NAND device or hdd comes with bad blocks from the factory.
it's immpossible to avoid. Nothing is perfect.


QUOTE(FenrirWolf @ May 14 2009, 09:05 PM) QUOTE(tenpmetabg @ May 14 2009, 11:52 AM)

I have read that writing-erasing NAND too much can be damageable... mind it !

Is this confirmed? I've dumped my NAND 3 times now.

 

[Sir_Voe]

create a file on your SD card in /bootmii/bootmii.ini (or open it if it's already there) and type this:
AUTOBOOT=SYSMENU

if you want it to boot to HBC just replace SYSMENU with HBC.
Next time you turn on your wii, it'll show BootMii, then after 5 seconds it will automagicallly start the system menu

If you want to stop it from autobooting, just use the GC controller directional keys.
I don't know about having both bootmii and preloader.

i have this in my boot.ini file

VIDEO=NTSC
AUTOBOOT=SYSMENU

but when bootmii loads up it just sits on the meu screen - it doesnt go thru to the wii system menu. do u need to delete the comments from the file, or am i missing spaces. tried everything. it just sits there on the bootmii screen. please help

Yeah, I had to delete the comments to get it to autoboot properly. Strangely enough though, this morning when I powered on my Wii it once again didn't follow the .ini commands. I opened it up and some of the comments had returned. Not sure what's going on with that.

 

[KTroopA]

create a file on your SD card in /bootmii/bootmii.ini (or open it if it's already there) and type this:
AUTOBOOT=SYSMENU

if you want it to boot to HBC just replace SYSMENU with HBC.
Next time you turn on your wii, it'll show BootMii, then after 5 seconds it will automagicallly start the system menu

If you want to stop it from autobooting, just use the GC controller directional keys.
I don't know about having both bootmii and preloader.

i have this in my boot.ini file

VIDEO=NTSC
AUTOBOOT=SYSMENU

but when bootmii loads up it just sits on the meu screen - it doesnt go thru to the wii system menu. do u need to delete the comments from the file, or am i missing spaces. tried everything. it just sits there on the bootmii screen. please help

Yeah, I had to delete the comments to get it to autoboot properly. Strangely enough though, this morning when I powered on my Wii it once again didn't follow the .ini commands. I opened it up and some of the comments had returned. Not sure what's going on with that.

ive doubled checked the file and its def correct - but not working

what gives...