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Hi,
I've ran into a snag that I can't seem to figure out, my nookcolor boots normally but does not boot from uSD. In the past I've always been able to find answers by searching but this time, nothing I've tried has worked. I've been using phiremod on the nook for quite a while and recently updated to v6.1.
The first time I rooted the NC, I used a uSD with autonooter 3.0 and everything worked great. Flashed to phiremod 5.2 and have been using CWR off of the emmc to update versions.
Today, I decided to try a new rom and wanted to start fresh with a stock 1.1. I popped in the CWR sdcard I had from a while back and it didn't work, the NC boots normally in to phiremod.
After remaking a bootable CWR sdcard several times and failing, I thought it might be a corrupted boot partition. So I successfully reimaged the boot and system partitions via ADB and I was back to stock. I thought I was good to go except what I've got now is a stock NC that does not boot from the uSD.
I've tried 3 different perfectly good uSDcards with autonooter, monster's rootpack, CWR sdcards, nookie-froyo sdcards... nothing works. Failbooting 8 times causes the NC to reupdate itself to 1.1.
Has anybody encountered this before or some devs can shed some light why it does not boot from uSD? Any help is appreciated.
Edit: N+power causes the NC to do a Factory Reset. Done this twice already.
TC
This might work....
Look, I'm no expert at uSD's, but try this. Maybe your Nook thinks the sd card is an emmc partition. Try holding down the home button while booting? Like, hold the button and then power on. I hope it works for you. I know the pain as I have had many issues, too.
tuoc65 said:
Hi,
I've ran into a snag that I can't seem to figure out, my nookcolor boots normally but does not boot from uSD. In the past I've always been able to find answers by searching but this time, nothing I've tried has worked. I've been using phiremod on the nook for quite a while and recently updated to v6.1.
The first time I rooted the NC, I used a uSD with autonooter 3.0 and everything worked great. Flashed to phiremod 5.2 and have been using CWR off of the emmc to update versions.
Today, I decided to try a new rom and wanted to start fresh with a stock 1.1. I popped in the CWR sdcard I had from a while back and it didn't work, the NC boots normally in to phiremod.
After remaking a bootable CWR sdcard several times and failing, I thought it might be a corrupted boot partition. So I successfully reimaged the boot and system partitions via ADB and I was back to stock. I thought I was good to go except what I've got now is a stock NC that does not boot from the uSD.
I've tried 3 different perfectly good uSDcards with autonooter, monster's rootpack, CWR sdcards, nookie-froyo sdcards... nothing works. Failbooting 8 times causes the NC to reupdate itself to 1.1.
Has anybody encountered this before or some devs can shed some light why it does not boot from uSD? Any help is appreciated.
Edit: N+power causes the NC to do a Factory Reset. Done this twice already.
TC
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My guess is the SD Card is not mounted, try going into the settings and make sure the card is mounted. You may want to unmount it, and then format it. Then unmount it, remove it and then reinstall cwr onto the sd card again. If that doesn't work, try another sdcard. If that doesn't work it could be a hardware issue... it could also be an issue with your card reader, they have been known to break at inopportune times, try a different card reader.
migrax
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migrax said:
My guess is the SD Card is not mounted, try going into the settings and make sure the card is mounted. You may want to unmount it, and then format it. Then unmount it, remove it and then reinstall cwr onto the sd card again. If that doesn't work, try another sdcard. If that doesn't work it could be a hardware issue... it could also be an issue with your card reader, they have been known to break at inopportune times, try a different card reader.
migrax
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+1 to the card reader issue. I have a perfect working cm7 build on my nook now, but it took some trial and error. The card reader on my computer looked like it was working fine, but when I would put the card into the nook it wouldn't boot to it. I finally did the same steps with the same card only this time using my phone (tp2) as the card reader plugged into my computer and it worked great.
It definitely was the card reader. Tried a different one and it booted just fine..
As a SDET by profession, it makes me sad I didn't think of this.
Thanks all.
Linux Issue
I know this is rather an old thread, but just in case someone has this problem and is running Linux (I'm running Ubuntu) here is what happened to me. After dd'ing the CWR image several times, I could not get the NC to boot to the sd card. I tried multiple cards and multiple readers, no joy. I thought perhaps something was wrong so I looked at the card in gparted. What I found there was that there was a 1mb of unallocated partition space before the CWR partition. I used gparted to move the partition to be at 0 position and it booted up like a charm.
Don't know if I was doing something wrong the command I used was
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sudo dd if=2gb_clockwork-3.0.1.0.img of=/dev/sdd1 bs=1M
At any rate, if any other linux users run into this, that's how I fixed it.
Randy
rwreed said:
I know this is rather an old thread, but just in case someone has this problem and is running Linux (I'm running Ubuntu) here is what happened to me. After dd'ing the CWR image several times, I could not get the NC to boot to the sd card. I tried multiple cards and multiple readers, no joy. I thought perhaps something was wrong so I looked at the card in gparted. What I found there was that there was a 1mb of unallocated partition space before the CWR partition. I used gparted to move the partition to be at 0 position and it booted up like a charm.
Don't know if I was doing something wrong the command I used was
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sudo dd if=2gb_clockwork-3.0.1.0.img of=/dev/sdd1 bs=1M
At any rate, if any other linux users run into this, that's how I fixed it.
Randy
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Yeah, the problem is you put it on the first partition rather than the card itself. Note the instructions in the forum say device of card. ie: /dev/sdd
I also had an issue where I could create the SD card, and the Nook could see it, but it wouldn't boot from it. It turns out this was because I was using the internal card reader in my laptop to write the card. Once I switched to an external USB card reader, the Nook booted from the card just fine.
I've just come across the same problem.
I started two days ago with this: [ROMS]NEW! Dualboot Mirage CM7 / ICS CM9 Image for SDcard.
I liked ICS so much, I asked the developer how could I just stick with CM9?
He pointed me to this tutorial: Installing CM9 on Nook Color microSD.
It seems as though all the steps are going fine, up until step#10, where I am supposed to reboot INTO a freshly installed nightly.
I have Ubuntu 11.10 reliably running in VirtualBox. Plenty of memory and space.
I run GParted and view the partitions, and they are as expected.
I know Ubutu well enough to follow well-written directions.
The sdcard in my Nook is properly mounted - I think.
After reading this thread, I went to Amazing and bought a new SD card reader.
OH, and all this has been done on a new SD card, 8GB, class 4.
Hopefully it is due to an aging card reader. I'll get the new one in a couple of days and report back.
I really hope that's it!
OrganizedFellow said:
I've just come across the same problem.
I started two days ago with this: [ROMS]NEW! Dualboot Mirage CM7 / ICS CM9 Image for SDcard.
I liked ICS so much, I asked the developer how could I just stick with CM9?
He pointed me to this tutorial: Installing CM9 on Nook Color microSD.
It seems as though all the steps are going fine, up until step#10, where I am supposed to reboot INTO a freshly installed nightly.
I have Ubuntu 11.10 reliably running in VirtualBox. Plenty of memory and space.
I run GParted and view the partitions, and they are as expected.
I know Ubutu well enough to follow well-written directions.
The sdcard in my Nook is properly mounted - I think.
After reading this thread, I went to Amazing and bought a new SD card reader.
OH, and all this has been done on a new SD card, 8GB, class 4.
Hopefully it is due to an aging card reader. I'll get the new one in a couple of days and report back.
I really hope that's it!
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Rather than a card reader, I use Kingston uSD usb stick adapters for my uSD card writing, and they've worked flawlessly. Just an option , if your new card reader doesn't solve your problem. The adapters were "dirt cheap".
brentb636 said:
Rather than a card reader, I use Kingston uSD usb stick adapters for my uSD card writing, and they've worked flawlessly. Just an option , if your new card reader doesn't solve your problem. The adapters were "dirt cheap".
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Great idea.
They're small enough to carry worth me. Thanks.
I tried to create a CM7 bootable SD card per the thread entitled "Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards. with updater."
I used WinImage to create the supposedly bootable SD card with the installer, placed it into my Nook which was fully off, and the Nook booted as usual instead of from the SD card.
Am I missing something? How do you boot from an SD card?
Is there such a thing as a boot choice menu like on my PC or is the default always to boot from the SD card?
Does the Nook have to be rooted for this to work?
Thanks
ETA: My PC shows the uSD card as nearly full, but my Nook shows the SD card as nearly empty (1.74 out of 1.84 GB available).
When you bought your Nook, did it have a blue sticker on the box? And does internal storage show 1GB or 5GB for you?
Also, you did drop an update CM7 zip file onto the imaged uSD before you tried booting off it right?
angomy said:
When you bought your Nook, did it have a blue sticker on the box? And does internal storage show 1GB or 5GB for you?
Also, you did drop an update CM7 zip file onto the imaged uSD before you tried booting off it right?
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No blue sticker was on the box. The internal storage shows 5GB.
Yes, I had a CM7 zip file on the imaged card. (The latest encore nightly)
Interestingly, my PC shows the uSD (2 GB) as nearly full. The Nook shows it as nearly empty (1.74 out of 1.84 available).
JowBe said:
No blue sticker was on the box. The internal storage shows 5GB.
Yes, I had a CM7 zip file on the imaged card. (The latest encore nightly)
Interestingly, my PC shows the uSD (2 GB) as nearly full. The Nook shows it as nearly empty (1.74 out of 1.84 available).
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When you burned the installer img, did you run WinImage as administrator? Also, when you put it in your reader it comes up as boot (drive letter in Windows, with files like uImage, uRamdisk, mlo, u-boot.bin, right?
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When you burned the installer img, did you run WinImage as administrator? Also, when you put it in your reader it comes up as boot (drive letter in Windows, with files like uImage, uRamdisk, mlo, u-boot.bin, right?
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Yes, I ran WinImage as administrator. And yes, it shows up in Windows explorer as boot and yes those files are there.
Could it be because my Nook operates in "factory mode," in order to skip initial registration?
You should run it and register it and setup wifi and everything first. Get the stock software working fine and dandy (its not half bad actually). Then, checkout this guide for installing CM7 onto an SD card:
http://clubnook.com/forum/showthread.php?953-Rooting-Instructions
It has worked for some rooting rookies so far and includes both windows and mac guides specific to SD cards.
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Could it be because my Nook operates in "factory mode," in order to skip initial registration?
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I'm not sure, because I ran through initial registration on stock prior to running CM7 off SD --- I used the same image (verygreen's agnostic at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957) as you did without a hitch.
If you decide to run CM7 off internal sometime you're going to need to register the nook anyway.
You could try an alternate bootable SD (e.g., using an image from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13283643&postcount=34) to eliminate one of the two: a) your nook having issues booting from SD or b) your SD install is not set up correctly.
An update: I decided to try to create a bootable SD from another bootable image (MonsterRootPack with CWR). This time the nook wouldn't even turn on. I'm going to try to create a third bootable SD as angomy has suggested to see what happens.
I need to add that when I removed the uSD card, it booted normally.
Also, when I create the bootable SD with winimage, I get a dialog box that tells me that the format of the SD card is not right and asks me if I want to resize the image. But this happened on both the images. I don't know if this has anything to do with it.
angomy said:
You could try an alternate bootable SD (e.g., using an image from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13283643&postcount=34) to eliminate one of the two: a) your nook having issues booting from SD or b) your SD install is not set up correctly.
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Ok, I tried the CWR image in the link you gave. Same problem - no-go. Just sits there dead. I remove the uSD and it boots normally.
FWIW you do not have to boot into stock B&N at all before you setup and install to CM7 SD card. One of my NCs has never ever booted into stock ROM at all, I installed CM7 onto SD card and running off that from the moment it was unboxed.
The NC will always boot off the SD card first, so if it's booting off eMMC instead then there must be something wrong with the img that you wrote to your SD card.
Make sure that you have a freshly formatted SD card, preferably one with good small random block r/w speeds (eg Sandisk class 4 8G). Follow the instructions in verygreen's "Size Agnostic..." OP to the letter. Re-download all the files as you may have a corrupted one. Make sure to check MD5 this time. Try using Win32diskimager instead, the 0.1 version works better.
It should work. Good luck.
ebubar said:
You should run it and register it and setup wifi and everything first. Get the stock software working fine and dandy (its not half bad actually). Then, checkout this guide for installing CM7 onto an SD card:
http://clubnook.com/forum/showthread.php?953-Rooting-Instructions
It has worked for some rooting rookies so far and includes both windows and mac guides specific to SD cards.
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Thanks for the link. I have given this some thought, and it doesn't seem reasonable that booting from an SD card should depend upon the state of registration of the device because the whole idea of booting from an SD card means that the content of the SD card is loaded in the place of the stock software.
robot8 said:
FWIW you do not have to boot into stock B&N at all before you setup and install to CM7 SD card. One of my NCs has never ever booted into stock ROM at all, I installed CM7 onto SD card and running off that from the moment it was unboxed.
The NC will always boot off the SD card first, so if it's booting off eMMC instead then there must be something wrong with the img that you wrote to your SD card.
Make sure that you have a freshly formatted SD card, preferably one with good small random block r/w speeds (eg Sandisk class 4 8G). Follow the instructions in verygreen's "Size Agnostic..." OP to the letter. Re-download all the files as you may have a corrupted one. Make sure to check MD5 this time. Try using Win32diskimager instead, the 0.1 version works better.
It should work. Good luck.
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Thanks. Yes, I just replied to another poster that I didn't think that the state of registration of the device should matter since the whole purpose of a bootable SD card is to load the contents of the SD in place of the stock.
I have followed the instructions in verygreen's thread to the letter - several times. Also, I have tried to make other bootable SDs without success. But that's a good idea about trying Win32diskimager. Also, I will try a Sandisk class 4 card SD as soon as I can get to a store.
I do have a question. When I format the SD card what "allocation unit size" should I be using? (formatting through Windows) The default is 32 kb.
PROBLEM SOLVED!
Thanks to everyone for trying to help me figure this out. The winning idea belongs to robot8.
When I switched from using WinImage to using Win32diskimager, it worked immediately. I am now running CM7 on my Nook Color! Took forever and a day to boot though.
Congrats!
Re: allocation unit size, do you mean cluster size? Depends on how big the FAT32 partition is --- larger clusters used means more actual space used but too large a size can reduce access speed. Generally Windows defaults to suggested 4k for up to 8GB, 8GB-16GB = 8k, 16-32GB = 16k, and 32+ = 32kb.
Also the first boot is the longest --- shouldn't take as long after that. Welcome to CM7 - I don't regret installing it over stock after waffling for weeks on whether or not I'd use stock at some point -- CM7 is just too much faster with too many more options and tweaks for my impatience to deal with stock Froyo.
THANK YOU OP!
I had the same issue, tried 20x various ways, 2 different computers, 2 different SD readers, and it was WinImage that wasnt working correctly. Win32DiskImager solved it.
Thanks.
JowBe said:
PROBLEM SOLVED!
Thanks to everyone for trying to help me figure this out. The winning idea belongs to robot8.
When I switched from using WinImage to using Win32diskimager, it worked immediately. I am now running CM7 on my Nook Color! Took forever and a day to boot though.
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Thanks so much! This finally got it to work for me too. Loving my new Android tablet
FWIW, WinImage does not work. Maybe it used to work, but it does not now. I posted about this a few days ago here.
Hello, Just got a refurbished NC with version 1.2 (read forever). Works great from stock system, but I'm trying to install CM7 on SanDisk 8gb card via post directions on:
[ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards
I've tried the 2 latest stable updates 7.1.0 and 7.0.3 and everything seems to install fine with the last lines saying "all steps complete...flushing caches...shutting down"
When I restart, it goes to the last 20 or so lines of the install and shuts down again (same messages at the end...all steps etc) I've redownloaded both the green 1.3 installer image and the stable roms. When I tried a "nightly" the install stopped on a line saying "looking for file starting with update..." or something like that and it sat there until I held the power button for a looong time.
I did try searching for a solution but couldn't find one like this problem. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or not doing? Thanks
One thought...the 8gb card doesn't show what class... it only says Sandisk Micro HC
Are you certain you are dropping the CM7 files on the root of the boot partition on the SD?
You seem to describe doing it right but we need step-by-step how you get it done in order to maybe figure out where the culprit is.
I would suggest RECREATE the bootable uSD first.
Note: redownload the image file if needed.
Thanks for replying. Here's what I've done:
formatted 8gb micro via windows 7
downloaded image installer 1.3 via xda
downloaded winimage
restored sd card from image (generic...)
I saw boot disk w/4 files
downloaded latest stable cm7 and copied directly (zipped)to boot partition on sd
inserted sd in NC
it loaded and started updating for about 60 secs like mentioned above
it automatically shut down
When I restart NC, there is a quick white screen it goes to loading and redoes the last 20-30 lines of update and shuts down again. The lines go by so quick I can't read it (or more accurately remember them)
I've redownloaded both install image and stable updates with same results. When I tried downloading a niightly, the installer stopped midway with last line saying something like...looking for file starting with update...
Any help is appreciated
I have the same device as you (refurb NC 1.2 from the recent dailysteals sale) and did the exact things that you did except use win32diskimager instead of winimage, and it installed the cm7 nightly 240 without any issues. It's only afterward that I ran into trouble, trying to install gapps (read about it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1332441)
same device, same procedure, different results.
You might want to re-download cm7 zip file... you can use 7-zip or winrar to "Test archive" to see if it is corrupt before copying it to the boot partition of the uSD.
Like jh mentioned, I would give win32diskimager a try, there were many reported of winimage didn't work well.
Search for the win32diskimager, older version is better for some reason, 0.15 or something. If you can't find, let me know, I'll host the file.
Again, redownload all files, make sure no hiccup in the middle of downloading process.
What you did was correct, just to let you know.
Work-around works---next question
update!
I took out the micro 2gb sandisk from my phone and tried it again doing the normal install. It works! So, next question. Can I make an image of the 2gb sd and restore it on the 8gb sd and via some procedure maximize the rest of the sd?
Any ideas why 8gb didn't work in first place? I had done a full format via windows explorer before trying the first time. Even tried formatting via NC and still no luck. The 8gb was being used in my rooted Eris phone with no problems.
By any chance you got the counterfeit one? the 8GB
not counterfeit...I think...because when fully formatted it was 7.4+ gb
Found another 8gb sandisk micro and used it. Worked perfectly. I should have tried that first and saved a whole lot of time and energy! Thanks to all that chimed in with suggestions.
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Found another 8gb sandisk micro and used it. Worked perfectly. I should have tried that first and saved a whole lot of time and energy! Thanks to all that chimed in with suggestions.
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You have to use at least a class 4 card and that still works pretty pokey. I have my nook overclocked and running on internal and it is almost as fast as a stock Atrix
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Hi,
Having a with a Nook where it will not complete boot of CM7 which is installed on an SD card. Instead it boots into the Nook Color software.
I hold down the power button till I see the green Cyanogenmod logo with the Loading text, which I think means it is booting from the SD card (I can get it to boot into CM recover), then the screen goes blank and something goes wrong and the boot process continous with the 'n' screen and eventually loads the Nook boot animation and ends with the Nook software loaded. The nook software seems to be running fine except I can't get the SD card to boot all the way.
I've tried 2 known good SD cards, which boot without problems on my second nook, so I know it is not the SD card. I suspect something got corrupted with the boot process files, so I have been trying to find a way to overwrite the existing files with a virgin copy.
1) Can't get ADB running, I suspect the ADB route is only possible if I have the nook booting in a rooted CM7 in the first place (if some one could confirm that would help)
2) I have tried the x8 boot fail reset as well as the erase and deregister option in the nook software with no change in the above behaviour.
3) My last hope is to do an update back to stock using the recovery mode of the SD card. I can copy an updater file to the small partition of the SD card that is visible on Windows. I found a 1.2 stock updater, but it is ~200MB which is too big to fit on the SD card. If someone could point me to a smaller updater or a sd image with CWM and >200MB space that would be very helpful. TY!
What exactly are you trying to do? If you are just trying to set up dual-boot of CM off of your SD card, you don't need to do anything to the stock B&N internal install. I've had good luck using the procedure in the [ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards thread.
Are you sure the initial CM install on your SD card went well? It's known to be very particular (see top of that thread) about what SD cards work. The first few times I tried, I didn't realize there were error when CM was initially extracted which led to similar failures. From what you've described, the SD setup is failing. Normally, you don't need to worry too much about what's on the internal emmc setup of the Nook Color.
bobstro said:
What exactly are you trying to do? If you are just trying to set up dual-boot of CM off of your SD card, you don't need to do anything to the stock B&N internal install. I've had good luck using the procedure in the [ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards thread.
Are you sure the initial CM install on your SD card went well? It's known to be very particular (see top of that thread) about what SD cards work. The first few times I tried, I didn't realize there were error when CM was initially extracted which led to similar failures. From what you've described, the SD setup is failing. Normally, you don't need to worry too much about what's on the internal emmc setup of the Nook Color.
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Hi bobsto, some background. I've been using CM7 on a microSD for several weeks now. I dual boot between Nook SW and CM7 that way. I've been using the link you posted above to create the SD cards and so far I have not had to touch the eMMC files at all.
Then a friend messed around with the Nook I gave them with CM7 on an SD card. I don't what the friend did, but when I got the Nook back it would not boot into CM7. I pulled my SD card from my working Nook and it wouldn't work either. So I'm guessing someone screwed with the Nook internal files. So I am trying the factory restore of the Nook SW to see if that will fix the problem and allow me to load CM7 from the SD card again. Interestingly Nookie will boot from SD and CM7 won't. Still trying stuff to see what will fix the problem. Suggestions are welcome.
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Hi bobsto, some background. I've been using CM7 on a microSD for several weeks now. I dual boot between Nook SW and CM7 that way. I've been using the link you posted above to create the SD cards and so far I have not had to touch the eMMC files at all.
Then a friend messed around with the Nook I gave them with CM7 on an SD card. I don't what the friend did, but when I got the Nook back it would not boot into CM7. I pulled my SD card from my working Nook and it wouldn't work either. So I'm guessing someone screwed with the Nook internal files. So I am trying the factory restore of the Nook SW to see if that will fix the problem and allow me to load CM7 from the SD card again. Interestingly Nookie will boot from SD and CM7 won't. Still trying stuff to see what will fix the problem. Suggestions are welcome.
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Gosh, I wish someone could figure this out.
I restored original stock after a full CM7 root and it went fine but I can NOT get a dual boot sd card to work.
It seems to install but when I reboot it shows CM7 screen briefly then always boots to Nook OS.
Tried many many different cards and image writers and CM7's and even a card from my other Nook which I know works.
It will not boot into the CM7 from the SDcard.
Any help?
grohval said:
Gosh, I wish someone could figure this out.
I restored original stock after a full CM7 root and it went fine but I can NOT get a dual boot sd card to work.
It seems to install but when I reboot it shows CM7 screen briefly then always boots to Nook OS.
Tried many many different cards and image writers and CM7's and even a card from my other Nook which I know works.
It will not boot into the CM7 from the SDcard.
Any help?
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Try this for CM7 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1022786
Nookie also works - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922324
Not sure what is going on, but it worked for me.
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Try this for CM7 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1022786
Nookie also works - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922324
Not sure what is going on, but it worked for me.
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Thanks, the first worked like a charm!
I made a 32gb CM7 sdcard.
Still wish I could have got the size-agnostic card to work, it bugs me when I can't figure stuff out.
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Still wish I could have got the size-agnostic card to work, it bugs me when I can't figure stuff out.
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I'm in the same boat, but after 1 day of research and trial and error I'm happy it works. Maybe someone smarter will see this and know the answer and solve my problem curiousity.
Trying to prepare 32gb card for nook cm7
Using verigreen's size agnostic img
Wrote it to the card using win image writer
dropped cm7 and gapps
on boot it recognizes card, makes partitions, inflats stuff everything looks ok
on reboot it does NOT boot from sd
instead goes to nook default
exact same stuff on 8gb card works fine
what gives?
I have two nooks at this point
both may have cwm recovery - i dont know how to check
(I know how to use nook, update it etc, but not sure about this cwr thingy)
one has cm7.1 on emmc
other has nook 1.2 rom on emmc
in both of them if i insert 8/16/32gb card
1) if sd card has fresh verygreen image with update...zip and gapps..zip installer kicks in and preps sd card
2) once i reboot, it ---- does NOT ---- boot from sd card anymore
All I want is bootable sd card with cm7.1 on it so that I can give it to a friend of mine
what am I doing wrong
is there a way to force nook to boot from sd card?
I think if it finds cwr on emmc and cwr on sd, it boots from emmc or something
I use win32diskimager which I think gives more reliable results.
Also you must mount the card in a PC for writing the image using a real USB / SD adapter. Using a card media slot on the PC or using another device like a phone to mount the card are known to give problems.
mrkkk said:
I have two nooks at this point
both may have cwm recovery - i dont know how to check
(I know how to use nook, update it etc, but not sure about this cwr thingy)
one has cm7.1 on emmc
other has nook 1.2 rom on emmc
in both of them if i insert 8/16/32gb card
1) if sd card has fresh verygreen image with update...zip and gapps..zip installer kicks in and preps sd card
2) once i reboot, it ---- does NOT ---- boot from sd card anymore
All I want is bootable sd card with cm7.1 on it so that I can give it to a friend of mine
what am I doing wrong
is there a way to force nook to boot from sd card?
I think if it finds cwr on emmc and cwr on sd, it boots from emmc or something
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Only put the CM7 zip file on it for the first boot.
use easeus partition software to extend the size of the boot partition to 200 MB after you flash the card with verygreens installer, but before you put cm7 and gapps on there.
I bet you it fails to write the kernel during the install because there is insufficient space - try it again without resizing and pay attention to the readout when it scrolls down the screen, you'll see.
cm7.1 + gapps is almost your whole boot partition, for me it leaves only half a megabyte of free space - that's not enough to unpack and install what's needed.
DizzyDen said:
Only put the CM7 zip file on it for the first boot.
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hmm, that did it
mrkkk said:
hmm, that did it
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LOL
Sorry for the OP but also happy for you that your NC is up and running.
I keep saying many times, do it one at a time.
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Sorry to bring this thread back but I'm having the same problem using verygreen's tutorial on my NC 1.3. However after booting the NC I get the "cyanogen mod loading..." screen shortly followed by a blank screen (Nook doesn't turn off, though). If I remove the SD card the nook starts up as it normally would.
Followed the advice of these other members (extended partition size to 16gb/16gb, haven't installed gapps either) but I still can't get it to work.
I'm using the latest nightly release of CM7 following the link on verygreen's tutorial released on 11/23. Should I use a stable version instead?
Thanks...
emak212 said:
Followed the advice of these other members (extended partition size to 16gb/16gb, haven't installed gapps either) but I still can't get it to work.
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There's where you made your mistake. The recommendations of the others on the forum were probably to expand the partition created by verygreen's image to something like 200MB or 250MB. The scripts in the image create and format 3 other partitions in addition to the one created by verygreen's image. When you expanded it to the full size of the SD card there was no room to create the additional partitions.
I would suggest you re-apply verygreen's image, expand it to 250MB and try again.
- Aerlock
Touchscreen Problems
Hello,
I have tried doing this several times, and I get no response from the touchscreen. Everything else works perfectly, but the touchscreen won't respond.
Please help.
Update on Touchscreen Issue
CM7 works fine off the 8GB. Is there something different you have to do to get the 32 to work?
Touchscreen Issue Explained
upthepool said:
Hello,
I have tried doing this several times, and I get no response from the touchscreen. Everything else works perfectly, but the touchscreen won't respond.
Please help.
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From: Eyeballer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227
****BRAND NEW NOOK COLORS (Dec 2011+/Jan 2012+ are now shipping with a different touchscreen/digitizer (same as used in the nook tablet). As of now this driver is not included in CM7, you are welcome to try to flash CM7, if your touchscreen is unresponsive, restore to stock or flash CM9. CM9 will work as the driver is included.***
It appears that 7.1 works, as well as the most recent nightly from Nov.