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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
Code:
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.
Hey guys just got a nook color last night been doing some research but i made a card that I believe should have been able to boot from sd upon start up. I have not been able to get it to do this. I am not sure what needs to be done im running stock 1.2 and not feeling rooting yet just booting cm7 from the SD but if i need to root I can. Please advise i have looked around and searched and not found adequate information? Thanks
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If you follow the instructions in the forum you should have no problems. My suggestion is to try verygreens SD size agnostic setup. Follow the instructions exactly and you should have no problems.
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k that's the one i followed but do i have the card in the nook when i write the image to it? because it says after writing the image to it to place it in the computer... also do i need to hit anything specific to boot up from SD when i turn the nook on? because those are the instructions that i followed and i have had no luck
edit: also if i am writing the disc onto the SDcard while in the nook how would i go about doing so?
but do i have the card in the nook when i write the image to it? because it says after writing the image to it to place it in the computer...
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I was also confused by this...
I'm having the exact same problem, and am having no luck on here trying to read and find the answer.
I just got my Nook Saturday night from Best Buy, and updated it to stock 1.2. It's not rooted. I haven't done anything to it yet. Spent most of the day yesterday just trying to get the loader image to burn to the sd card, kept refusing to do it. I am absolutely NOT a geek, and hubby (who is) finally figured out what I did wrong when he got home last night. Apparently the program I used to unpack it, had it bloated to 4 GB, instead of about 130 mb.
Well, he tried following verygreen's instructions to put CM7 on the card (8 GB class 4) so we could use that in the Nook. Can't get the Nook to boot with the card, it just keeps booting stock. Once booted, I can see the card in it, but it is not booting from it. Also, there is no Touch the future of reading screen on this nook, there is a screen that says Read Forever, if that matters. I'd sure appreciate any insight into why it might not be recognizing that it should be booting from the card.
I was really excited to get this, it's the only decent tablet I can afford, but I'm a bit frustrated. And hubby doesn't really have the mental energy to deal with this sort of thing during the week when he comes home from work. And I really wanted to learn how to do this myself, so I can do what's needed when he isn't here...
Thanks ahead of time if you read all that and can/want to help me!!
It seems likely that the card didn't get made into a bootdisk correctly.
1) Are you using windows, mac, or linux?
2) How was the μsd card connected to your computer when making it into the boot disk?
3) When you connect the card back to the laptop in the same way, what happens? What is the card labeled?
Oh, and it says "Read Forever" in 1.2. "Touch the future of reading" is from 1.1, and also CM7.
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It seems likely that the card didn't get made into a bootdisk correctly.
1) Are you using windows, mac, or linux?
2) How was the μsd card connected to your computer when making it into the boot disk?
3) When you connect the card back to the laptop in the same way, what happens? What is the card labeled?
Oh, and it says "Read Forever" in 1.2. "Touch the future of reading" is from 1.1, and also CM7.
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Thank you for responding! I have actually fixed it finally. Seems the Microcenter card I was using must not have liked all this. So I had another card laying around, a 4 GB, no idea what brand, and tried it all again. This time it worked! So happy now, got it all going so I can play with it now!
I feel a little bit helpless at this point so bear with me. I have a rooted Droid X with a custom ROM running. A couple of days ago my sd card reader in my phone stopped working. I can no longer install any apps (like z4 to remove root). I also can't sbf back to stock because of the sd card as well. I have rsd lite and have the drivers but the program doesn't recognize my phone. Any Ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks, SincerelyFucked
Are you sure it's the phone and not the card itself?
Have you tried using another microSD card or using a card reader and hooking it up to your computer?
SBF'ing sometimes is a tricky process. For one, make sure you are running RSD as an admin. I would also find some instructions and/or videos and make sure you are doing the process correctly, mostly because I'm not sure that SBF'ing requires the sd card like you say...
I say this because I've SBF'd with no sd in the phone...
Good luck man!
Try sbf'ing with the Linux method. It is easy, and the SD card part is unimportant.
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I have a new-to-me Nook Color running the 1.4.2 firmware. I did a factory reset and set up my Barnes and Noble account. Yay me. However I can't FOR THE LIFE OF ME get it to boot off the SD card.
I've tried two 2GB cards (Samsung & SanDisk) and one 8GB SanDisk card. Also used three different card readers to burn the .IMG. What am I missing? I stick them in the Nook and the Nook just boots up as normal without hesitation. I've been rooting cell phones for years but this tablet has me stumped.
Is there another option I can use to flash CWM? Once I get it flashed I'm sure flashing the ROM is a breeze...
EDIT: After more and more digging, it might be an issue with writing to the wrong partition. How can I check to see if I'm installing to the write partition? I've formatted my cards multiple times. This is the stuff I see in a lot of answer posts:
of = /dev/disk# (good)
of = /dev/disk#p# (bad)
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have you wrote an sd card that will boot (ie. Clockwork 4 gig et al). Can you read and write to it from within stock? More data please, what were you writing to what partition?
When I use the uSD card to boot and it is plugged into the computer you should hear three da-da-das.
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have you wrote an sd card that will boot (ie. Clockwork 4 gig et al). Can you read and write to it from within stock? More data please, what were you writing to what partition?
When I use the uSD card to boot and it is plugged into the computer you should hear three da-da-das.
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I have never successfully created an SD card that will boot on the Nook. Outside of the Nook, I have no way of testing to see if works or not.
You asked what partition, but I only have one partition on the card. If I open up the card in Disk Manager, there's just one allotment of space. When you burn the Image, is that supposed to create a separate partition that's visible in My Computer? If so, that's not happening because all the data is in one spot on the card (from what I can tell)
You need to flash the card. I suggest starting here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
or any of the other dev threads dealing with dual boots or whatever it is you are trying to accomplish.
Does your stock nook format sd cards to write books and such? If not that would be a big clue that it is a hardware issue
n8nmad said:
You need to flash the card. I suggest starting here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
or any of the other dev threads dealing with dual boots or whatever it is you are trying to accomplish.
Does your stock nook format sd cards to write books and such? If not that would be a big clue that it is a hardware issue
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Yes, the stock Nook picks up the cards and formats them when installed. I've used these cards for all my smartphone rooting without any issues.
I've also formatted the cards and burned the CWM images using the windiskimager tool. It's just not bootable for some reason
The very first fundamentally step is to check whether it is a NOOKcolor or Nook Tablet.
votinh said:
The very first fundamentally step is to check whether it is a NOOKcolor or Nook Tablet.
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Holy balls, I feel like an idiot. I had no idea the two were so similar. I am almost certain I have the Color (going by what it says on the case) but I'll look closely when I get home
It's the Nook Tablet. Wow....just...wow
On the bright side, at least my technical experience isn't the problem. My common sense on the other hand...
I believe you still can root the NT or run the pre-alpha ROM from it.
Unsure if it's able to run from uSD yet or not.
Hi xda, my nook won't boot up at all after I tried to restore to stock from autonooter 1.01. I read as many threads as I could and tried to make a bootable sd from leapinLar's tips page. The stock recovery with cwr and without. I used winimage and win32. With winImage I get an error "reading from file". win32 seems to write the file but it doesn't boot up the nook. When I try and open the sd with windows to see if anything is on the sd it says "not formatted would you like to format it now". I downloaded file, unzipped, then wrote to sd. I must be doing something wrong creating the sd but I can't find any info as to what. Thanks for any help
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Hi xda, my nook won't boot up at all after I tried to restore to stock from autonooter 1.01. I read as many threads as I could and tried to make a bootable sd from leapinLar's tips page. The stock recovery with cwr and without. I used winimage and win32. With winImage I get an error "reading from file". win32 seems to write the file but it doesn't boot up the nook. When I try and open the sd with windows to see if anything is on the sd it says "not formatted would you like to format it now". I downloaded file, unzipped, then wrote to sd. I must be doing something wrong creating the sd but I can't find any info as to what. Thanks for any help
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Are you unzipping the right file? You said something about with stock recovery and without. Those are not image files that can be burned. When you unzip my image zip file, you should end up with a 300MB .img file. That is what you burn with win32diskimager. And take the card out of the PC and put it back in before you try to look at it. And be sure to use an external card reader, not one built into your PC.
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Thanks Leapinlar. I downloaded your nook color emmc stock recovery zip with and without the cwr. I am using external sd reader. I downloaded and tried cwm-6.0.1.2 bootable sd zip and tried that in the nook and nothing happens. Also tried the 5.5.0.4 version too. I removed the card reader and reinserted it in the pc and when I click on the drive letter it ask me if I want to format it. I used win32diskimager and it said write successful, so I put it in the nook and then plugged nook into computer with the stock usb cable and nothing happens. If I hold the power button down the pc does ding as if when you plug in an external device. I'm either trying to burn the wrong file or I'm not making the bootable. Thank you for your help.
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Thanks Leapinlar. I downloaded your nook color emmc stock recovery zip with and without the cwr. I am using external sd reader. I downloaded and tried cwm-6.0.1.2 bootable sd zip and tried that in the nook and nothing happens. Also tried the 5.5.0.4 version too. I removed the card reader and reinserted it in the pc and when I click on the drive letter it ask me if I want to format it. I used win32diskimager and it said write successful, so I put it in the nook and then plugged nook into computer with the stock usb cable and nothing happens. If I hold the power button down the pc does ding as if when you plug in an external device. I'm either trying to burn the wrong file or I'm not making the bootable. Thank you for your help.
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You don't say, but you are unzipping those image files before you burn them, right? Should be 300MB .img file. Other than that just look at my A10 tip in my tips thread and follow exactly.
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leapinlar said:
You don't say, but you are unzipping those image files before you burn them, right? Should be 300MB .img file. Other than that just look at my A10 tip in my tips thread and follow exactly.
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Yes I did unzip the image file before I burned it. I ended up finding a cwr zip that was for a 4 gig card, probably an older way of doing it, and that worked for some reason. I did use your stock 1.4.3 zip though and all seems well. Your tips page is great, thank you, you're very helpful now I can play around and brick it again with some other stuff.
Hey guys.
I am somewhat a noob. I bought a brand new 8gb nook color from wallmart on black friday. I heard about how you can put CM onto the sd card and boot from that without altering the device itself. I have tried for HOURS to do this. I have looked up COUNTLESS walk throughs and done everything they say, done alternations, and used different cards ranging from 2gb sandisk (class 1?) to 32 gb sandisk this is a class 4. I've used winimage and burned the image to the card, then dragged over cyanogenmod and done this task in countless different ways. Every time I shut down the nook, put in the card, then re-boot, the nook does NOT boot from the card. It boots normal, then I can actually browse the card after it boots up. I have done it EXACTLY how it says here and read tutorials so its not a question of whether or not I have followed standard proceedure. My firmware version is 1.4.3. Ive searched online to this and to no avail. My sister bought the exact same one at the exact same time and it does not boot the sd either. I have done about 8 straight hours of research on this guys, so I'm no pro but I have a basic understanding of how it works now. My questions are this:
1: Did Barns and Noble put restrictions on the newest nook color or on the newest software version? And if so is there a way around this?
and
2: If NOT, is there an alternate way/installation onto the card that I can do (such as an image pre loaded with CM etc.) that I might be able to try instead of the conventional way?
Thanks guys! Sorry for the uber long post : S
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Hey guys.
I am somewhat a noob. I bought a brand new 8gb nook color from wallmart on black friday. I heard about how you can put CM onto the sd card and boot from that without altering the device itself. I have tried for HOURS to do this. I have looked up COUNTLESS walk throughs and done everything they say, done alternations, and used different cards ranging from 2gb sandisk (class 1?) to 32 gb sandisk this is a class 4. I've used winimage and burned the image to the card, then dragged over cyanogenmod and done this task in countless different ways. Every time I shut down the nook, put in the card, then re-boot, the nook does NOT boot from the card. It boots normal, then I can actually browse the card after it boots up. I have done it EXACTLY how it says here and read tutorials so its not a question of whether or not I have followed standard proceedure. My firmware version is 1.4.3. Ive searched online to this and to no avail. My sister bought the exact same one at the exact same time and it does not boot the sd either. I have done about 8 straight hours of research on this guys, so I'm no pro but I have a basic understanding of how it works now. My questions are this:
1: Did Barns and Noble put restrictions on the newest nook color or on the newest software version? And if so is there a way around this?
and
2: If NOT, is there an alternate way/installation onto the card that I can do (such as an image pre loaded with CM etc.) that I might be able to try instead of the conventional way?
Thanks guys! Sorry for the uber long post : S
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No nothing was done by B&N. It is how you are burning the card. It will not boot in the nook unless burned perfectly. Look at my tips thread linked in my signature and read items A9 and A10.
There not any easy was not to use a bootable recovery card. Just keep trying, using different software, different cards, different PC s, different card readers.
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Hey guys.
I am somewhat a noob. I bought a brand new 8gb nook color from wallmart on black friday. I heard about how you can put CM onto the sd card and boot from that without altering the device itself. I have tried for HOURS to do this. I have looked up COUNTLESS walk throughs and done everything they say, done alternations, and used different cards ranging from 2gb sandisk (class 1?) to 32 gb sandisk this is a class 4. I've used winimage and burned the image to the card, then dragged over cyanogenmod and done this task in countless different ways. Every time I shut down the nook, put in the card, then re-boot, the nook does NOT boot from the card. It boots normal, then I can actually browse the card after it boots up. I have done it EXACTLY how it says here and read tutorials so its not a question of whether or not I have followed standard proceedure. My firmware version is 1.4.3. Ive searched online to this and to no avail. My sister bought the exact same one at the exact same time and it does not boot the sd either. I have done about 8 straight hours of research on this guys, so I'm no pro but I have a basic understanding of how it works now. My questions are this:
1: Did Barns and Noble put restrictions on the newest nook color or on the newest software version? And if so is there a way around this?
and
2: If NOT, is there an alternate way/installation onto the card that I can do (such as an image pre loaded with CM etc.) that I might be able to try instead of the conventional way?
Thanks guys! Sorry for the uber long post : S
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Use win32diskimager instead and use an external card writer. The image is approximately 300mb with the Rev5 file. Then copy the CM10 and 2021011 GApps zips to SD card. Insert in Nook Color. Wait for setup to finish and shut down. Start Nook. Enjoy.