| 22 Apr 2026 |
 matthewcroughan - nix.how | I will install it just for a laugh | 20:33:17 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | it is just gathering dust | 20:33:23 |
 Puna | i don't, ppc32 is not my focus | 20:33:31 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | Ah right, sorry I mistook you for the author | 20:33:47 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | didn't realise it was marie | 20:33:50 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | I'm sure they'll see the message eventually :D | 20:34:00 |
| 23 Apr 2026 |
 Marie | https://codeberg.org/marie/nixos-wii-u | 07:11:43 |
| Marie | it's not as polished as i wanted it to be, some patches are still not upstreamed iirc | 07:12:01 |
| Marie | haven't worked on it for a while | 07:12:10 |
| Marie | need to find some time to work on it again, it was really fun | 07:12:48 |
| Marie | feel free to ping me if you have questions or need help getting it to run | 07:13:37 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | Oh yeah so my question was, how do you get it to load the kernel | 11:56:39 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | There's no u-boot, so what is used instead? | 11:56:58 |
| Puna | petitboot | 11:57:39 |
| Puna | https://linux-wiiu.org/install#booting
- Linux will load into “Petitboot”, the linux-wiiu bootloader. Give it a moment and your USB, SD card etc. should appear with the name of the distribution.
| 12:01:03 |
| Marie | you can use petitboot, but the project has its own loader which can chainload petitboot, but booting the kernel directly worked better for me | 12:38:19 |
| Marie | my project supports both | 12:38:26 |
| Marie | kind of | 12:38:28 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | @marie:marie.cologne can you continue to load the IOS of the Wii U? | 13:42:31 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | Like a dual boot? | 13:42:37 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | I would be interested in using nixos modules to configure the IOS | 13:43:56 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | Like nix-darwin or nix-on-droid | 13:44:31 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | For this you would write activation scripts that manipulate the data on the IOS partition, if that's still available that is | 13:44:59 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | I've always been interested in homebrew software too | 13:45:08 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | Even better if you can execute something from within Linux to boot into the IOS like kexec | 13:46:02 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | Then you have turned the Linux side into a glorified bootloader for the IOS | 13:46:13 |
| Marie | yes | 15:52:24 |
| Marie | you just chainload the whole thing from aroma | 15:52:33 |
| Marie | good luck, but probably not | 15:53:16 |
| Marie | also, activation scripts 👎️ | 15:53:28 |
