BootMii won’t boot in boot2

[lean pond]

title. my config files are right because i can boot into bootmii ios no problem, but boot2 just dosen’t show up on startup and it just goes to the h&s screen. whats the big deal?

ive tried:

• reinstalling bootmii/boot2
• resetting the config
• reformatting the SD card
  to no avail

[cinder fern]

Your Wii isn't old enough

[lean pond]

how come i was able to install it..

[cinder fern]

[lean pond]

the blue flash occurs right after startup so thats especially infuriating

[hasty flare]

just use priiloader

[steady onyx]

did you set autoboot in bootmii.ini?

if you don't know, send the config file here

[lean pond]

yes:

[uneven aurora]

supposed to happen

[steady onyx]

try adding a hashtag to the start of the autoboot line

[lean pond]

yeah.. i know

[lean pond]

no dice

[steady onyx]

did anything change?

try doing the same to the boot delay line

or change the boot delay to a higher number, like 60

[lean pond]

nothing seems to be working

might as well just stick with priiloader and bootmii ios, it serves fundamentally the same purpose

[steady onyx]

does bootmii load with the sd card removed

[lean pond]

the blue flash right after startup does

[gilded hawk]

bootmii can do more than priiloader

when on boot2

[steady onyx]

what region is your wii?

[lean pond]

america.. so, NTSC

[steady onyx]

what video cables do you use?

[lean pond]

composite

[kindred rampart]

Does this even matter

[steady onyx]

it could

most cheap wii2hdmi adapters only work in progressive mode

[timber onyx]

maube try changing the bootmii setting to progressive

or you already tried that

[steady onyx]

composite cables don't support progressive

component and hdmi do

[signal cipher]

Maybe you did something wrong while hacking your wii or its just happen so that one of the block that bootmii boot2 use is a bad one (its normal due to the wii old age)

[steady onyx]

what are you talking about

[signal cipher]

You know when you backup you nand with bootmii… sometimes you get those black squares thing well those are call bad block

[steady onyx]

what you described isn't possible.

[signal cipher]

And why is that

[steady onyx]

bootmii boot2 installs to boot2. if boot2 is corrupt, the wii doesn't boot

[cinder fern]

Doesn't mean anything(?)

[signal cipher]

Hmmm yeah did not think about that

[signal cipher]

It does… it mean the block is unusable…

[steady onyx]

yeah. your wii loses 1kb of storage

doesn't really cause problems

[signal cipher]

0.125mb

[cinder fern]

(well yeah not affecting boot2)

[signal cipher]

Hey im just trying to help ok?

[steady onyx]

that's fine, but stick to helping with more basic problems until you understand the wii better. if you want to help here, i'd recommend reading through wiibrew to get more in-depth knowledge

[signal cipher]

. . . I know how the wii work…. I just try to help by theorizing… but did not realize that my theory did not make sense… everyone make mistake

[steady onyx]

dawg this isn't support

[cinder fern]

anyways

[cinder fern]

@steady onyx you didn't respond to their message

[steady onyx]

yeah cause that was my last idea

but with composite cables being used, the video output settings can't be an issue

@lean pond how did you reinstall bootmii?

https://wii.hacks.guide/hackmii is the method that should be used

[lean pond]

wilbrand, which is pretty much the same method on paper

[steady onyx]

yeah

give hackmii a go anyway

it won't hurt anything

[lean pond]

bet

gonna uninstall IOS and boot2, shutdown, and install them again

[steady onyx]

sounds good

[lean pond]

okay it still dosen’t work, im at a loss

[signal cipher]

Try rehacking your wii… idk..

[lean pond]

dawg…

[lean pond]

regardless, priiloader w/ bootmii ios serve basically the same functionality, and if i truly need boot2… ill just maybe figure it out sometime

[steady onyx]

you know bootmii.ini?

try changing it to this:

# Video mode, possible settings:
# NTSC, PAL50, PAL60, PROGRESSIVE
VIDEO=NTSC

# Autoboot, possible settings:
# SYSMENU, HBC
AUTOBOOT=HBC

# Autoboot delay, in seconds:
# Default is 5
BOOTDELAY=60```

just a last-ditch attempt