Almost thought I had it

[zeenon]

Guys, I thought I was going everything correctly but I'm stuck now.

Unboxed a new unpatched switch with OFW 4.1.0. I know it's a bit overkill but make a card with hekate and backed up the NAND.

Reformatted the card with SX OS and followed the instructions. Did a NAND backup first, then told it to do a EnuNAND (successful on both). When I rebooted it said enunand disabled (which is odd because I thought on reboot it should be enabled), but I pressed the CFW button. Now if I boot holding +/press power (with the jig/dongle) I see the SX OS splash screen then a white nintendo logo but that is about it, I never get to the main SX OS screen.

Holding the power down for 20 secs and I can reboot to the OFW.

Help? I guess I could reformat the SD and start from the beginning?

Z

 

[imprezgc8]

Sounds like you have everything right. What is your SD card formatted? It sounds like it might be exFAT and out of the box the Switch does not support exFAT.

For emunand, make sure it says enabled if you want to boot to emunand. Otherwise it will boot to your sysnand, but with CFW.

 

[zeenon]

You are spot on! Card is formatted with exfat.

So, do I need to do another NAND backup on fat32? I’m guessing no. I used the NAND backup function of sx os to do a nand backup on exfat.

So I guess reformat with FAT32, copy the boot and license over, follow the directions for emunand again this time with a fat32 card?

 

[imprezgc8]

Backup should be fine. You can make another if you want just to be safe though. Yes, you would need to reformat as fat32 at least initially.

You can follow this guide to update offline and add exFAT support, but can keep the same FW or you can go up to 6.2 right now. 7.0 is not support yet. Doing it that way will preserve your fuses so you can downgrade back to 4.1 if you really needed to.

It honestly recommended to keep fat32 as the Switch does not handle exFAT very well and can cause corruption. Just look into using the SX Installer with usb to get around the 4gb file limit with fat32.

If you want to still use exFAT and emunand that's fine, but it will be some more work. You would need to format fat32 - create emunand on 4.1 - follow that guide to update your emunand to 6.2 (I'd suggest SD Files) - back up the SD - reformat exFAT - copy files back and then try to boot to emunand again and hope nothing got corrupted.

 

[zeenon]

So if I stick with fat32, how to a break down a 10gb rom down to 4gb?

NVM. Read the FAQ