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2026-09-05T04:50:30Z
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Tech64DD: improve formatting and add seealso link
2026-07-29T23:29:25Z
<p>improve formatting and add seealso link</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''BootMii''' is a piece of software developed by fail0verflow, intended as a boot2 replacement. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">After initializing </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hardware</del>, BootMii <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">will attempt </del>to load [[MINI]] from <code>bootmii/armboot.bin</code> <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on </del>a FAT partition on an SD Card<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Should that fail </del>(no SD Card connected, no FAT, file doesn't exist, read failure, etc), it will load [[Nintendo]]'s boot2 and proceed to let the system boot normally<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. BootMii is often used by [[Wii-Linux]] users, as MINI is the only firmware that Linux will run under, and BootMii is the primary (but not only) way to load it.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{seealso|[https://wiibrew.org/wiki/BootMii WiiBrew page about BootMii]}}</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Boot sequence ==</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Initialize the hardware</ins></div></td></tr>
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Techflash: Add basic BootMii page
2026-07-29T21:15:06Z
<p>Add basic BootMii page</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''BootMii''' is a piece of software developed by fail0verflow, intended as a boot2 replacement. After initializing the hardware, BootMii will attempt to load [[MINI]] from <code>bootmii/armboot.bin</code> on a FAT partition on an SD Card. Should that fail (no SD Card connected, no FAT, file doesn't exist, read failure, etc), it will load [[Nintendo]]'s boot2 and proceed to let the system boot normally. BootMii is often used by [[Wii-Linux]] users, as MINI is the only firmware that Linux will run under, and BootMii is the primary (but not only) way to load it.</div>
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