Need help with bootmii install

I have an older wii that was upgraded to system menu 4.1u.

I was successfully able to install HBC.

I believe that DVDx installed properly, but I have not tested it.

I installed bootmii as boot2 and IOS.

During the install of bootmii as boot2, it put the necessary files on the SD card and said that it wrote to blocks 3 and 4.

When I boot my wii, it goes straight to the system menu (normal screen) and does not seem to load bootmii.

When I open the HBC and press the menu button, I have an option for bootmii. If I select bootmii, the screen goes blank, flickers and then goes back to HBC.

What should I do to get bootmii working properly?

Thanks.

Try uninstalling both and then just installing boot2 and see if boot2 works.
Scratch that for now.

What kind of an SD Card are you using?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/17/2009 10:59PM by Arikado.

Using a Lexar SD 2GB card. I looked at the compatibility list and it said that one was compatible.

Try uninstalling BootMii IOS and see if boot2 will work for you.

I tried just doing boot2 first. That did not work.

Then I uninstalled boot2 and reinstalled boot2 and installed ios. Neither one works.

I tried uninstalling boot2 and ios and reinstalling boot2. That does not work either.

I have not tried ios by iteself. I will try that now and let you know, but I really wanted it as boot2 so I can do backup/restores.

I removed boot2 and installed just the ios. That actually worked!!!

However, I don't have a GC controller, so I can't do anything with it.

I uninstalled ios and went to reinstall boot2 and got a system crash: Exception (DSI) Occurred! - Then it printed out a bunch of memory locations and registers.

I will try and install boot2 again after a hard reboot.

Ok. I removed boot2 and did a hard reset of the wii.

I installed boot2 again. Still does not seem to work.

One thing to mention is that the drive light does flash when booting. From what I understand, this means that bootmii is installed as boot2.

Any other suggestions?

hmmm very peculiar... first delete the folder called "bootmii" off of sd card
i would then uninstall bootmii altogether and turn off wii once done uninstalling. then i would turn it back on and run the hackmii installer.
then install bootmii as boot 2 and then turn it off again once it is done installing turn back on and see if bootmii screen pops up.
if not come back and tell us what happened.

Same results. :(

I can post a copy of the installer.log file if that is helpful. Is there any information that should be removed from it prior to posting?

Thanks.

i would remove some of the personal stuff such as special nand id and things like that but please post that it will help
PS: what are the first four (4) numbers/letters of your wii's serial number

The first four number of my serial number are: LU53

Here is my installer.log: (I blocked out the PVR# - I didn't notice anything else that looked like it might be identifiable).

HackMii v0.2 installer starting up
PVR = 000XXX00
62 titles are installed
Found IOS 61: revision: 0x131a.
Found IOS 55: revision: 0x141d.
Found IOS 53: revision: 0x141d.
Found IOS 51: revision: 0x1300.
Found IOS 50: revision: 0x1400.
Found IOS 38: revision: 0xe1a.
Found IOS 16: revision: 0x200.
Found IOS 10: revision: 0x300.
Found IOS 60: revision: 0x181e.
Found IOS 37: revision: 0xe1c.
Found IOS 36: revision: 0xc16.
Found IOS 34: revision: 0xc13.
Found IOS 28: revision: 0x50d.
Found IOS 22: revision: 0x30c.
Found IOS 14: revision: 0x107.
Found IOS 35: revision: 0xc14.
Found IOS 33: revision: 0xb12.
Found IOS 31: revision: 0xc14.
Found IOS 30: revision: 0xb00.
Found IOS 20: revision: 0x100.
Found IOS 17: revision: 0x206.
Found IOS 15: revision: 0x10a.
Found IOS 13: revision: 0x10.
Found IOS 12: revision: 0xc.
Found IOS 11: revision: 0x100.
Found IOS 21: revision: 0x20d.
Found IOS 2: revision: 0x1c1.
Found IOS 9: revision: 0x209.
Found IOS 4: revision: 0xff00.
Calling boot2_run(1, 34)
Waiting for boot2 to load ...
boot2 loaded, waiting for IOS
IOS loaded: IOS34 v12.19
IPC started (0)
parsing last generation bootmap
found valid boot2 blockmap at block 1 (pos 0x627c0), submap 0, generation 2
found valid boot2 blockmap at block 3 (pos 0xa47c0), submap 0, generation 4
found valid boot2 blockmap at block 5 (pos 0xe67c0), submap 0, generation 3
parse_blocks: found 3 valid blockmaps
found 3 valid blockmaps
using generation 4
boot2 blocks: 02 03 04 05 06
boot2bin @3,0 (blocks=2,3 - bootmii=1)
bootmii@2,3
boot2 blocks: 06 05 04 03 02
boot2bin @3,1 (blocks=6,5 - bootmii=0)
bootmii detected, parsing previous generation bootmap
found valid boot2 blockmap at block 1 (pos 0x627c0), submap 0, generation 2
found valid boot2 blockmap at block 3 (pos 0xa47c0), submap 0, generation 4
found valid boot2 blockmap at block 5 (pos 0xe67c0), submap 0, generation 3
parse_blocks: found 3 valid blockmaps
found 3 valid blockmaps
using generation 3
boot2 blocks: 00 01 02 03 04 05 06
boot2bin @5,0 (blocks=0,1 - bootmii=0)
boot2 blocks: 06 05 04 03 02 01 00
boot2bin @5,1 (blocks=6,5 - bootmii=0)
boot2 block layout: 2 2 1 1 1 0 0
Assembling boot2 in RAM
copyright size = 34
copyright text = 'Copyright 2008,2009 Team Twiizers.'
tmd ends at 0x802884ac, data starts at 0x802884e0
bootmii version = '0.9'
Ok for boot2 install
The test results are in:

Using IOS versions: Installer: 34, HBC: 61, DVDX: 36

The Homebrew Channel: Can be installed
DVDX: Can be installed
BootMii: Can be installed
A BootMii install requires a SD card

Runtime files will be written, these are required to
properly boot BootMii.

Mounting SD card...
Creating directory '/bootmii'...
Writing '/bootmii/armboot.bin'...
Writing '/bootmii/ppcboot.elf'...
Writing config file...
Skipped, file already exists

Done.

Erasing NAND block 3
Writing NAND block 3
Verifying NAND block 3 to block 0 of BootMii
Erasing NAND block 4
Writing NAND block 4
Verifying NAND block 4 to block 1 of BootMii
Calling boot2_run(1, 34)
Waiting for boot2 to load ...
boot2 loaded, waiting for IOS
IOS loaded: IOS34 v12.19
IPC started (0)

Mounting SD card...
Creating directory '/bootmii'...
Writing '/bootmii/armboot.bin'...
Writing '/bootmii/ppcboot.elf'...
Writing config file...
Skipped, file already exists

ahhh.. Here enlies the problem. Remove the folder called bootmii on your sd card. Then reinstall bootmii boot2.
To me it looks like your bootmii required files were not written correctly. Let us know the results!

Sorry, I swear I removed the directory.

I removed boot2 and rebooted.
I reinstalled boot2 and rebooted.

Still nothing.

Here is the new installer.log file:

HackMii v0.2 installer starting up
PVR = 000XXX00
62 titles are installed
Found IOS 61: revision: 0x131a.
Found IOS 55: revision: 0x141d.
Found IOS 53: revision: 0x141d.
Found IOS 51: revision: 0x1300.
Found IOS 50: revision: 0x1400.
Found IOS 38: revision: 0xe1a.
Found IOS 16: revision: 0x200.
Found IOS 10: revision: 0x300.
Found IOS 60: revision: 0x181e.
Found IOS 37: revision: 0xe1c.
Found IOS 36: revision: 0xc16.
Found IOS 34: revision: 0xc13.
Found IOS 28: revision: 0x50d.
Found IOS 22: revision: 0x30c.
Found IOS 14: revision: 0x107.
Found IOS 35: revision: 0xc14.
Found IOS 33: revision: 0xb12.
Found IOS 31: revision: 0xc14.
Found IOS 30: revision: 0xb00.
Found IOS 20: revision: 0x100.
Found IOS 17: revision: 0x206.
Found IOS 15: revision: 0x10a.
Found IOS 13: revision: 0x10.
Found IOS 12: revision: 0xc.
Found IOS 11: revision: 0x100.
Found IOS 21: revision: 0x20d.
Found IOS 2: revision: 0x1c1.
Found IOS 9: revision: 0x209.
Found IOS 4: revision: 0xff00.
Calling boot2_run(1, 34)
Waiting for boot2 to load ...
boot2 loaded, waiting for IOS
IOS loaded: IOS34 v12.19
IPC started (0)
parsing last generation bootmap
found valid boot2 blockmap at block 1 (pos 0x627c0), submap 0, generation 2
found valid boot2 blockmap at block 5 (pos 0xe67c0), submap 0, generation 3
parse_blocks: found 2 valid blockmaps
found 2 valid blockmaps
using generation 3
boot2 blocks: 00 01 02 03 04 05 06
boot2bin @5,0 (blocks=0,1 - bootmii=0)
bootmii@-1,-1
boot2 blocks: 06 05 04 03 02 01 00
boot2bin @5,1 (blocks=6,5 - bootmii=0)
boot2 block layout: 2 2 1 1 1 0 0
Assembling boot2 in RAM
copyright size = 34
copyright text = 'Copyright 2008,2009 Team Twiizers.'
tmd ends at 0x802884ac, data starts at 0x802884e0
bootmii version = '0.9'
Ok for boot2 install
The test results are in:

 Using IOS versions: Installer: 34, HBC: 61, DVDX: 36

The Homebrew Channel: Can be installed
DVDX: Can be installed
BootMii: Can be installed
A BootMii install requires a SD card.

Runtime files will be written, these are required to
properly boot BootMii.

Mounting SD card...
Creating directory '/bootmii'...
Writing '/bootmii/armboot.bin'...
Writing '/bootmii/ppcboot.elf'...
Writing config file...

Done.

Erasing NAND block 3
Writing NAND block 3
Verifying NAND block 3 to block 0 of BootMii
Erasing NAND block 4
Writing NAND block 4
Verifying NAND block 4 to block 1 of BootMii
Calling boot2_run(1, 34)
Waiting for boot2 to load ...
boot2 loaded, waiting for IOS
IOS loaded: IOS34 v12.19
IPC started (0)

So when you turn on the wii it will just boot the regular system menu? Well..... Unfortunately I believe you will have to backup all of the contents on the sd card to your computer and then format the sd card (probably to FAT 16) then retry the install.
Hope this works!!!

Correct. I don't have anything on the SD except for a few HB apps and the bootmii stuff, so that is not a problem. The card was formatted as FAT32 when I started, but I will try as FAT16. I will post the results when I get them.

Thanks for the help so far.

No problem just trying to help

I reformatted the SD card as FAT16.

I copied over the following:

boot.elf
private (entire directory)
apps/homebrew_browser
apps/mplayer_ce

I removed boot2 and rebooted the wii.
I installed boot2 and after writing to NAND and reporting Success, the wii locked up.
I rebooted the wii. After power on the disk try light flashes a few times (indicating that boot2 is installed).
However, it just goes to the saftey warning and then system menu.

The installer.log file show as being 3KB in size, but when I open it, it is empty.

I will try the process again...

Here is the latest...

I reformatted the SD card as FAT16.

I copied over the following:

boot.elf
private (entire directory)
apps/homebrew_browser
apps/mplayer_ce

I removed boot2 and rebooted the wii.
I installed boot2 and rebooted the wii. (No lockups this time.)
On power-on, the drive flashes a few times and the safety warning comes on.
Press A and then system menu comes up.

Here is the installer.log file:

HackMii v0.2 installer starting up
PVR = 000XXX00
62 titles are installed
Found IOS 61: revision: 0x131a.
Found IOS 55: revision: 0x141d.
Found IOS 53: revision: 0x141d.
Found IOS 51: revision: 0x1300.
Found IOS 50: revision: 0x1400.
Found IOS 38: revision: 0xe1a.
Found IOS 16: revision: 0x200.
Found IOS 10: revision: 0x300.
Found IOS 60: revision: 0x181e.
Found IOS 37: revision: 0xe1c.
Found IOS 36: revision: 0xc16.
Found IOS 34: revision: 0xc13.
Found IOS 28: revision: 0x50d.
Found IOS 22: revision: 0x30c.
Found IOS 14: revision: 0x107.
Found IOS 35: revision: 0xc14.
Found IOS 33: revision: 0xb12.
Found IOS 31: revision: 0xc14.
Found IOS 30: revision: 0xb00.
Found IOS 20: revision: 0x100.
Found IOS 17: revision: 0x206.
Found IOS 15: revision: 0x10a.
Found IOS 13: revision: 0x10.
Found IOS 12: revision: 0xc.
Found IOS 11: revision: 0x100.
Found IOS 21: revision: 0x20d.
Found IOS 2: revision: 0x1c1.
Found IOS 9: revision: 0x209.
Found IOS 4: revision: 0xff00.
Calling boot2_run(1, 34)
Waiting for boot2 to load ...
boot2 loaded, waiting for IOS
IOS loaded: IOS34 v12.19
IPC started (0)
parsing last generation bootmap
found valid boot2 blockmap at block 1 (pos 0x627c0), submap 0, generation 2
found valid boot2 blockmap at block 5 (pos 0xe67c0), submap 0, generation 3
parse_blocks: found 2 valid blockmaps
found 2 valid blockmaps
using generation 3
boot2 blocks: 00 01 02 03 04 05 06
boot2bin @5,0 (blocks=0,1 - bootmii=0)
bootmii@-1,-1
boot2 blocks: 06 05 04 03 02 01 00
boot2bin @5,1 (blocks=6,5 - bootmii=0)
boot2 block layout: 2 2 1 1 1 0 0
Assembling boot2 in RAM
copyright size = 34
copyright text = 'Copyright 2008,2009 Team Twiizers.'
tmd ends at 0x802884ac, data starts at 0x802884e0
bootmii version = '0.9'
Ok for boot2 install
The test results are in:

 Using IOS versions: Installer: 34, HBC: 61, DVDX: 36

The Homebrew Channel: Can be installed
DVDX: Can be installed
BootMii: Can be installed
A BootMii install requires a SD card.

Runtime files will be written, these are required to
properly boot BootMii.

Mounting SD card...
Creating directory '/bootmii'...
Writing '/bootmii/armboot.bin'...
Writing '/bootmii/ppcboot.elf'...
Writing config file...

Done.

Erasing NAND block 3
Writing NAND block 3
Verifying NAND block 3 to block 0 of BootMii
Erasing NAND block 4
Writing NAND block 4
Verifying NAND block 4 to block 1 of BootMii
Calling boot2_run(1, 34)
Waiting for boot2 to load ...
boot2 loaded, waiting for IOS
IOS loaded: IOS34 v12.19
IPC started (0)

Sounds like your SD Card isn't compatible with BootMii. Try copying over the bootmii folder from the SD Card you're using now to a different SD Card. Insert the new SD Card in your Wii and see if bootmii boot2 works.

yeah sounds to me like it is your sd card. sorry. sometimes the list is wrong i guess.