I'm a little late to the party (6 years late to be exact) but I hope I will still find someone who knows anything about this firmware...
I have just tried to install it on a 350D, firmware 1.0.3 that was modified for full-spectrum and that I'm using for astrophoto with the hope that I can use its intervalometer.
I failed to have the firmware installed. No, the camera isn't bricked, it works just as well as before, but the firmware hack didn't "catch"
Here's what happens:
1. I have a CF card (an old one, 64MB "MrFlash" brand that I've been using for other firmware updates etc) that was freshly formatted to FAT16, blank otherwise, added to its root bootflg2.fir from post #342 on this thread.
2. Inserted the card into the 350D, went to the firmware menu, verified once more that I have 1.0.3, pressed "set" then selected OK to upgrade firmware
3. camera went on to display "CF card containing firmware is required to update" as expected
4. blue light flashes briefly. All good.
5. blue light flashes briefly. All good.
6 Nothing happens for a very, very long time. No LEDs are on.
7. After waiting for about 10 minutes, still nothing happens. Turned camera off, took battery out then back in, turn camera on. All works well. Firmware still shows 1.0.3, not sure if it should have changed or not...
8. Tried to boot from a card that I had previously made bootable with a hex editor, and has autoexec.bin on it. Camera displays "CF Err" on small LCD. Tried another random CF card, works well. Info menu doesn't have anything new.
9. Restarted process at 2, attempted 2 more times to have the firmware flashed (formatting the CF card each time and re-writing bootflg2.fir to it each time. The exact same thing happens.
10. Attempted the process again using the original scanled.fir from 2009 instead. This time, the blue LED flashes briefly, then the red LED briefly, then again nothing happens with the camera displaying "CF card containing firmware is required to update" for a long time with no LEDs on. Turn camera off, remove and reinsert battery, turn camera on, everything works, nothing is changed.
So it seems that toggling the boot flag on this camera fails. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.