Hacking Updated A9LH, but still have to boot with SD Card

[Agent Moose]

So it's been many months since I've updated anything on my 3DS, and I decided to do so today.
I followed the 3ds.guide: https://3ds.guide/updating-a9lh

It updated my Luma (which I was far behind on) and seems to updated A9LH because nothing went wrong, my console still boots up like normal with the SD card in.

But when I got to Section 4 "CTR NAND Luma Update", I followed it exactly. I even see the arm9loaderhax.bin on my CTR NAND, but when I boot the console with no SD card, it just shuts off like it used to on the old A9LH.

Any clue why it won't let me boot into sysnand without my SD card?

 

[x65943]

I know it's kind of a stupid suggestion, but how sure are you that you haven't been inadvertently booting emunand with luma all this time (instead of sysnand)?

 

[Agent Moose]

...Well then.

I didn't think about my emunand
I do use emunand, but I figured that if there was no SD card, it would automatically just boot sysnand, since it can't detect an emunand. I guess that is not the case?

 

[x65943]

...Well then.

I didn't think about my emunand
I do use emunand, but I figured that if there was no SD card, it would automatically just boot sysnand, since it can't detect an emunand. I guess that is not the case?

What I meant is, is your sysnand bricked? Can you boot sysnand with the sd in?

 

[Hyoretsu]

You gotta open FBI and copy your arm9loaderhax.bin to your CTRNAND's root.

 

[Agent Moose]

Ahh, yes, I can boot my sysnand with the SD card in.

 

[Hyoretsu]

Ahh, yes, I can boot my sysnand with the SD card in.

Just do what I said. You need to do that in order to boot it without your microSD.

 

[x65943]

It definitely seems like your a9lh did not get updated for whatever reason. I don't know why.

 

[Hyoretsu]

It definitely seems like your a9lh did not get updated for whatever reason. I don't know why.

I'm telling you, you have to copy arm9loaderhax.bin to your CTRNAND. I even updated my guide with steps on doing so.

 

[x65943]

I'm telling you, you have to copy arm9loaderhax.bin to your CTRNAND. I even updated my guide with steps on doing so.

He wasn't following your guide, read what he said in the OP "I followed [Plailect's guide] exactly. I even see the arm9loaderhax.bin on my CTR NAND, but when I boot the console with no SD card, it just shuts off like it used to on the old A9LH."

 

[Hyoretsu]

He wasn't following your guide, read what he said in the OP "I followed [Plailect's guide] exactly. I even see the arm9loaderhax.bin on my CTR NAND, but when I boot the console with no SD card, it just shuts off like it used to on the old A9LH."

That can also happen with other CFWs that don't support arm9loaderhax.bin in CTRNAND.

 

[x65943]

That can also happen with other CFWs that don't support arm9loaderhax.bin in CTRNAND.

But he's using luma and updated his a9lh to support ctrnand booting. It's a strange problem.

 

[Cuphat]

...Well then.

I didn't think about my emunand
I do use emunand, but I figured that if there was no SD card, it would automatically just boot sysnand, since it can't detect an emunand. I guess that is not the case?

Were you on EmuNAND when you used FBI to copy arm9loaderhax.bin to CTRNAND? If so, it's on your EmuNAND'S CTRNAND and not being very useful.

 

[Agent Moose]

Found out the problem. I feel extremely stupid right now.

So what happened, Yes, I did copy the arm9loadhax.bin to CTR NAND on my EMUNAND. Not sysnand. I didn't think that one through at all, but all is working now!

Thanks for the help though! So yeah, make sure if you use emunand to copy that file to the sysnand CTR Nand because you know, it must read from sysnand since the SD card isn't in...