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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.
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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 XDA fourms, i have just today bought a nook color. I have been researching rooting it so i can read my manga and comics on it. I have decided to root it through a micro sd 4gb card so that if i want to use my nook regularly i can. now the problem is i can not understand half the things people say to do to achieve rooting my Nook color. can any one help me or redirect me to an easy place to teach me how to do this?
That's exactly how I started out. You can find instructions on the "[ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards." thread in the "Nook Color Android Development" forum. I'm no Android expert, being more a console Linux & C/Forth kind of guy, but it worked for me.
Since I spent most of my time in stock and only had a few apps I actually used on the card, I ended up rooting the stock nook with a manual nooter to install those apps in the Nook Color stock home page ... but using the SD card install for a month was quite useful in working out whether I wanted to root the stock B&N firmware or install a CM7 firmware instead.
ok so i tried to make an sd card out of my 4 gb but it didnt work so i decided to reformate it and now it only has 117 mb! wth? im so confused...
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ok so i tried to make an sd card out of my 4 gb but it didnt work so i decided to reformate it and now it only has 117 mb! wth? im so confused...
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when you write the image to the SD card the partition is 117mbs. windows can only see that partition (there is actually 4 on the card after the image is written) that's why when you hit reformat it reformatted it to 117mbs. boot your nook up into stock form with the SD card in it, then go into your settings and hit "unmount SD card" then hit "reformat". That'll get you back to 4gbs.
ok great! ill try that thank you very much! but now how do i get it rooted?
If you "want to root it through a micro sd 4gb card so that if i want to use my nook regularly i can" ... you aren't really rooting the device, you are just making an SD card that will boot up its own system and leave the stock system in the built-in flash alone. Then if the card is pulled out (or replaced with a non-bootable SD card), the bootloader skips the SD card and boots from the internal flash.
If you are using a Windows box, as nook711 explained, the regular Windows format will not change existing SD partitions, so it will just format one relatively small partition on the SD card. To reformat back to a single clean SD partition on the Windows side, google for Panasonic SDFormatter.
As far as how to get that card to work as an SD-boot card ~ its hard to say, since you didn't say what went wrong the first time you tried it: which imager program did you use? did you power the Nook down all the way before rebooting it? Did it hang, or did it fail to boot and start up as a stock Nook Color?
Unless of course I misread you: if you want to root it using a SD card in a way that allows it to also be used as a regular Nook ~ that is, the third party apps show up in what looks like a regular B&N Home page ~ that is a manual noot you want to do. The instructions for doing a manual noot are in the "[NC][1.2][1.3] ManualNooter 4.6.16" thread. However, those are instructions for a 1.2 or 1.3 version. Instead of using the manualnooter file described in the opening post, skip ahead to page 175, and look for GMPOWER's post #1745. The "LINK" downloads a manualnooter file that seems to work for a stock Nook Color 1.4.1 ~ at least, that's the one I've used and now I have what looks like a stock Nook Color, except with Crackle, Crunchyroll, YouTube, OpenIntents and DolphinMini apps showing up on the B&N home pages.
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If you "want to root it through a micro sd 4gb card so that if i want to use my nook regularly i can" ... you aren't really rooting the device, you are just making an SD card that will boot up its own system and leave the stock system in the built-in flash alone. Then if the card is pulled out (or replaced with a non-bootable SD card), the bootloader skips the SD card and boots from the internal flash
If you are using a Windows box, as nook711 explained, the regular Windows format will not change existing SD partitions, so it will just format one relatively small partition on the SD card. To reformat back to a single clean SD partition on the Windows side, google for Panasonic SDFormatter.
As far as how to get that card to work as an SD-boot card ~ its hard to say, since you didn't say what went wrong the first time you tried it.
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so what happen on my first try was i used winimage to write the genertic sd card file on to it. i than put update-cm-7.1.0-encore-signed.zip on the card. my nook was off and i turned it on. it did not boot from the sd card. i have not tried holding the n button to see if that worked yet. i do have the sd card formatted and i have already formatted the card back to 4 gb. Next i was going to do the same steps but try and hold the n button
update:so i tried the N button but it didnt boot the sd card... i just dont know what im doing wrong!?
if it did not boot from the sdcard then I would suspect that the image did not write to the sdcard correctly. the nook will automatically look at the sdcard boot first.
did you unzip the image file before writing it to the card?
did you write the image as admin in the winimage?
After writing the image to the sdcard remove it from your computer and then plug it back in the computer, if it wrote correctly it should now say "boot"
"my nook was off and i turned it on. it did not boot from the sd card"
It only boots if it is turned on from a powerdown. If it just went to sleep to save the battery, and a quick tap of the power button can wake it up, its not powered down, its only sleeping.
When its awake, hold the power button, wait for the "do you want to turn it off completely" dialog, keep holding the power button, and it will turn off. That is a complete power down. Then put in the bootable SD-card, and hold the power button until it turns on ~ it ought to boot off the card instead of off the Nook internal flash.
Like any Android device, it will take a while to go from the boot screen to the home screen on the first power-up, but you'll see the skaterboy droid in a couple of minutes and know that its grinding through the process of setting up the CM7 system.
And regarding the CM7 update file ~ looking in my PC file system, that's the same CM7 update file I used.
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After writing the image to the sdcard remove it from your computer and then plug it back in the computer, if it wrote correctly it should now say "boot"
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it does say "boot" but it still does not work
BruceMcF said:
"my nook was off and i turned it on. it did not boot from the sd card"
It only boots if it is turned on from a powerdown. If it just went to sleep to save the battery, and a quick tap of the power button can wake it up, its not powered down, its only sleeping.
When its awake, hold the power button, wait for the "do you want to turn it off completely" dialog, keep holding the power button, and it will turn off. That is a complete power down. Then put in the bootable SD-card, and hold the power button until it turns on ~ it ought to boot off the card instead of off the Nook internal flash.
Like any Android device, it will take a while to go from the boot screen to the home screen on the first power-up, but you'll see the skaterboy droid in a couple of minutes and know that its grinding through the process of setting up the CM7 system.
And regarding the CM7 update file ~ looking in my PC file system, that's the same CM7 update file I used.
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Yes i did shut it off and than turned it on but is still does not work?
i have also been looking at video on youtube. but every single one tells me something different. so far the one i found that seems to be the closest to what im trying to do is this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4nenR-mNo0 but even so i feel like the more i watch the more confused i get
There are only three things that come to my mind:
(1) What is the make and class of the microSD card? That's not from personal experience, but it shows up in multiple HowTo guides, both here and on other sites. I used a Kingston Class 4 8gb microSD card, but the preference seems to be for SanDisk Class 4.
(2) A generic image is likely to work best if its written onto a "like new" fully formatted SD card ~ I have seen a few YouTube clips of various rooting efforts where formatting it with the Panasonic SDFormatter Windows executable succeeded after the prior effort had failed.
Edit: the YouTube clip you posted is the first one where I saw advice to use the Panasonic SDFormatter. However, other than that, I mostly followed the xda How-To.
I'd note that even though the the CrashTechDummies YouTube clip is from April, 2011, they are using a HowTo guide for a image that is older than the "size-agnostic" image in the "Size-agnostic" How To guide, so they have to do several things by hand that are handled automatically by the "Size-agnostic" image.
(3) What is your hardware for writing SD images? USB-port card writers sometimes need to be safe-unmounted with the USB unmount tool before popped out. I've run into that before in a different context.
If its not one of those, then I got nothing, sorry. The part between copying the CM7 file onto the generic image and seeing the CM7 droid skaterboy "just worked" for me.
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There are only three things that come to my mind:
(1) What is the make and class of the microSD card? That's not from personal experience, but it shows up in multiple HowTo guides, both here and on other sites. I used a Kingston Class 4 8gb microSD card, but the preference seems to be for SanDisk Class 4.
(2) A generic image is likely to work best if its written onto a "like new" fully formatted SD card ~ I have seen a few YouTube clips of various rooting efforts where formatting it with the Panasonic SDFormatter Windows executable succeeded after the prior effort had failed.
(3) What is your hardware for writing SD images? USB-port card writers sometimes need to be safe-unmounted with the USB unmount tool before popped out. I've run into that before in a different context.
If its not one of those, then I got nothing, sorry. The part between copying the CM7 file onto the generic image and seeing the CM7 droid skaterboy "just worked" for me.
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ok i reformatted it with Panasonic reformat and i am using a 4 gbsandisk micro sd and it has a 2 with a circle around it
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i have also been looking at video on youtube. but every single one tells me something different. so far the one i found that seems to be the closest to what im trying to do is this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4nenR-mNo0 but even so i feel like the more i watch the more confused i get
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there's lots of ways to get to the end result, don't get confused we will help you through the process.
Now that being said:
This was my process
* reformat your SD card again using the stock nook
* download "windisk32 image writer" (easier I think then winimage)
* download "verygreens, genenric 1.3image.zip"
* unzip the image.zip to your desktop (using 7zip)
* open windisk32, click the blue folder and find the image file on your desktop for generic 1.3
* select your corresponding drive to your sdcard hit write
*when finished remove sdcard and reinsert it into computer
* download (cm7.1 or cm7.2)
* open up " my computer" on windows
* drag "cm7.1 or 7.2" to the corresponding drive for sdcard (should say boot)
* when finished right click hit eject when safe to do so remove sdcard
* insert sdcard into fully powered down nook
* turn nook on (after a few it should go to a little Linux penguin) and install scripts should be running
* when it's done it'll power off
* wait a few minutes and turn the nook on, should boot into cm7 but first you should see the android riding a skateboard.
*while that's working download the gapps file
after you set up cm7 for the first time, shut it down.
* remove sdcard and reinsert it into your computer
* open up "my computer" and drag the gapps file to the sdcard drive
* when finished hit eject and reinsert the card into the nook and while holding the "n" power up the nook (should see the little Linux penguin again)
* when its finished it should power down againbthen just turn it on and set up Google
hope this helps
** again this is just what works for me and I have successfully done several different nook for friends, family and myself.
uh is there any way you could supply some links ? i mean i think i have alot of these things but iv been gathering it from doing reaserch so i justwant to make sure i have the right files
Tom32090 said:
uh is there any way you could supply some links ? i mean i think i have alot of these things but iv been gathering it from doing reaserch so i justwant to make sure i have the right files
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verygreens image:
forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12240928&postcount=1
windisk32:
www.askvg.com/win32-disk-imager-write-any-bootable-image-to-usb-drive-in-windows/
7zip:
download.cnet.com/7-Zip/3000-2250_4-10045185.html
nook711 said:
there's lots of ways to get to the end result, don't get confused we will help you through the process.
Now that being said:
This was my process
x reformat your SD card again using the stock nook
x download "windisk32 image writer" (easier I think then winimage)
xdownload "verygreens, genenric 1.3image.zip"
xunzip the image.zip to your desktop (using 7zip)
xopen windisk32, click the blue folder and find the image file on your desktop for generic 1.3
xselect your corresponding drive to your sdcard hit write
xwhen finished remove sdcard and reinsert it into computer
x download (cm7.1 or cm7.2)
x open up " my computer" on windows
xdrag "cm7.1 or 7.2" to the corresponding drive for sdcard (should say boot)
xwhen finished right click hit eject when safe to do so remove sdcard
xinsert sdcard into fully powered down nook
xturn nook on (after a few it should go to a little Linux penguin) and install scripts should be running
x when it's done it'll power off
* wait a few minutes and turn the nook on, should boot into cm7 but first you should see the android riding a skateboard.
*while that's working download the gapps file
after you set up cm7 for the first time, shut it down.
* remove sdcard and reinsert it into your computer
* open up "my computer" and drag the gapps file to the sdcard drive
* when finished hit eject and reinsert the card into the nook and while holding the "n" power up the nook (should see the little Linux penguin again)
* when its finished it should power down againbthen just turn it on and set up Google
hope this helps
** again this is just what works for me and I have successfully done several different nook for friends, family and myself.
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Ok so i have gotten up to the part where it shutdown and i have no restarted it yet. I downloaded the gapps and now i have another question. if i want to open up the memory on the sd card that isnt being used willl it mess anything up? the video talks about using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2 and i just dont want to mess up anything iv already down
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Ok so i have gotten up to the part where it shutdown and i have no restarted it yet. I downloaded the gapps and now i have another question. if i want to open up the memory on the sd card that isnt being used willl it mess anything up? the video talks about using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2 and i just dont want to mess up anything iv already down
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the unseen portion of the sdcard in windows will be seen in your nook
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the unseen portion of the sdcard in windows will be seen in your nook
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ok so if i want to put thing on the card how would i do it? would my computer pick up the unused memory?
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ok so if i want to put thing on the card how would i do it? would my computer pick up the unused memory?
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you can use the nook as a mass USB storage device. while on the nook plug the cord into your nook and then the USB side into your computer. the computer should pick it up as USB mass storage and show 2 drives, 1 for nook color and the other for sdcard. once connected you can put whatever you want on it.
I'm trying to root my NST 1.1.2 with the latest touchnooter (touchnooter-2-1-31.img)
I am on a mac and I know how to use the terminal with dd to write the image to the microsd card. However everytime I try to boot my NST with the microsd it just goes to the regular B&N boot screen like normal. Then when it's all loaded it tells me the SD card is damaged and I need to format it.
Has anyone else had this problem? I tried searching around but can't seem to find anything similar.
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I know how to use the terminal with dd to write the image to the microsd card.
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Read SD (using dd on mac) and compare with original (touchnooter-2-1-31.img)
If it’s the same – try another SD card.
How are you using dd? Are you writing directly to the card, or to the first partition of the card?
I figured out that the card was /dev/disk1s1 by using "df"
Then I run "diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1s1"
Then I run "sudo dd if=nooter.img of=/dev/disk1s1"
After that I get some numbers telling me the ins and outs. If I pull the card out and put it back into my mac it says it can't read it at all, is that bad?
I think you have to write it to /dev/disk1 , but I'm not sure, I never worked with a Mac.
In Linux the card would be sdx, and if there is a partition on it it would be sdx1. But it is necessary to write directly to the card and not to the first partition.
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I think you have to write it to /dev/disk1 , but I'm not sure, I never worked with a Mac.
In Linux the card would be sdx, and if there is a partition on it it would be sdx1. But it is necessary to write directly to the card and not to the first partition.
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Thank you! I think this is exactly where I went wrong. Trying again now.
Slivvy said:
I try to boot my NST with the microsd it just goes to the regular B&N boot screen like normal. Then when it's all loaded it tells me the SD card is damaged and I need to format it.
Has anyone else had this problem? I tried searching around but can't seem to find anything similar.
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Although I have Win XP I had this problem when doing 2 mistakes :
1. I didn't format the SD card before placing the nooters/CWM on the card. I use "SDformatter" for that.
2. The second mistake was not reading properly what was written in the message after formatting = SAFELY REMOVE THE DEVICE. I didn't remove it & I was burning the image straight on the formatted SD card, so that didn't help either.
But after formatting SD card, removing it and then burning the image, I never had that problem again.
Yikes! Last night I was moving some files via adb wireless into the root directory of my nst (bad move for a newbie).
Now my nook will not power back on or anything. I've taken the battery out and plugged it back in. Nothing.
The screen is stuck on "Your NOOK has turned off completely" message.
No matter how long I hold the power button, nothing happens.
Have I bricked my device?:crying:
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Have I bricked my device?
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Well, yes, but it's not a big deal. It's fixable.
You need something on an SD card, Noogie, Clockwork Recovery, one of the Nooters.
I'd use Noogie on an SD card and copy your backup to the internal SD card.
You do have a backup?
Renate NST said:
Well, yes, but it's not a big deal. It's fixable.
You need something on an SD card, Noogie, Clockwork Recovery, one of the Nooters.
I'd use Noogie on an SD card and copy your backup to the internal SD card.
You do have a backup?
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I know that I did a backup last November, but I can't remember what it would be called.
Is it an image file?
Renate NST said:
Well, yes, but it's not a big deal. It's fixable.
You need something on an SD card, Noogie, Clockwork Recovery, one of the Nooters.
I'd use Noogie on an SD card and copy your backup to the internal SD card.
You do have a backup?
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I found a file called "SalsichaNooter.img" and wrote it to my sd card via winimage32.
Am I on the right path?
If so,what should I do with it?
That's to say, you don't have a full backup?
The important thing is to always make sure you have a copy of the stuff on the mmcblk0p2 (/rom) partition.
That has all the stuff that is unique to your Nook.
There is also a backup copy on mmcblk0p3 under rombackup.zip
There's a lot of ways to get out of this situation.
I mentioned the Nooters for completeness.
I've never used one and I don't know a lot about them.
My preference would be for putting Noogie on an SD card,
looking at the internal SD card boot partition over USB and copying what's broken from the software update for 1.1.2
Renate NST said:
That's to say, you don't have a full backup?
The important thing is to always make sure you have a copy of the stuff on the mmcblk0p2 (/rom) partition.
That has all the stuff that is unique to your Nook.
There is also a backup copy on mmcblk0p3 under rombackup.zip
There's a lot of ways to get out of this situation.
I mentioned the Nooters for completeness.
I've never used one and I don't know a lot about them.
My preference would be for putting Noogie on an SD card,
looking at the internal SD card boot partition over USB and copying what's broken from the software update for 1.1.2
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I just found my backup!!! It's called "nook_touch_backup.img" and is about 1.82 GB.
If my Nook won't power up at all, is it possible to restore this image to the internal memory?
Also, when I plug in my Nook via USB nothing shows up in my device manager.
centralpark said:
If my Nook won't power up at all, is it possible to restore this image to the internal memory?
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Yes, if it is your backup.
Put Noogie on an SD card, use Win32DiskImager to copy the image to the internal memory.
Renate NST said:
Yes, if it is your backup.
Put Noogie on an SD card, use Win32DiskImager to copy the image to the internal memory.
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My Nook will not turn on even after putting Noogie on my external SD card and then placing it back in my Nook.
Also, my Nook no longer shows up in my device manager :crying:
centralpark said:
Also, my Nook no longer shows up in my device manager
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Well, the Nook is a composite USB device.
It shows up under "Android Phone" or whatever.
It also shows up under USB Mass Storage devices.
It should get a drive letter.
If it doesn't, go to Disk Management and futz and give it one.
Then use Win32DiskImager to write your backup to it.
Renate NST said:
Well, the Nook is a composite USB device.
It shows up under "Android Phone" or whatever.
It also shows up under USB Mass Storage devices.
It should get a drive letter.
If it doesn't, go to Disk Management and futz and give it one.
Then use Win32DiskImager to write your backup to it.
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For some reason, my nook will not show up in "Device Manager" or "Disk Management" on any computer that I have.
It is stuck on the "turned off completely" screen.
No matter what I try, even though the green led light comes on when I plug it in via usb cable, it simply won't power up. The screen won't flicker...nothing.
I presume that you've tried all sorts of long pushes on the power button, 30 seconds?
You may be in that state where it needs the battery disconnect and reconnected.
Some have had luck with waiting until it discharges itself dead-dead.
OTOH, some got in this situation from doing that.
Renate NST said:
I presume that you've tried all sorts of long pushes on the power button, 30 seconds?
You may be in that state where it needs the battery disconnect and reconnected.
Some have had luck with waiting until it discharges itself dead-dead.
OTOH, some got in this situation from doing that.
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I've tried multiple long pushes of power button etc.
Should the screen go totally blank when it's dead-dead?
I think somehow I deleted important files from the root directory last night using adb.
Removing the battery for 20 minutes made no difference.
Thanks so much for all your help.
Are you trying to get to "Rooted Forever" with noogie?
Renate NST said:
Are you trying to get to "Rooted Forever" with noogie?
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I'm trying to get anything to work
Neither flashing noogie or clockworkmod to my external sdcard via win32diskimager caused my nook to come back to life.
I do know that my battery is good since last night it had over 90%.
No matter what I've tried, nothing causes my nook to show up in my device manager.
I only briefly see a message about "OMAP 3630" failed to install drivers.
The OMAP 3630 popups when it tries to boot off the USB.
That means that something that you have has a good mlo and u-boot.bin in the boot partition.
Whatever is after that is broken.
I would guess that your SD card is not written correctly.
It's a VFAT, look what's on there.
Is it the first (and only presumably) partition?
Is it marked active and bootable?
Progress
Renate NST said:
The OMAP 3630 popups when it tries to boot off the USB.
That means that something that you have has a good mlo and u-boot.bin in the boot partition.
Whatever is after that is broken.
I would guess that your SD card is not written correctly.
It's a VFAT, look what's on there.
Is it the first (and only presumably) partition?
Is it marked active and bootable?
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Hip hip hurray!! Finally, I got sd_2gb_clockwork-rc2.zip to create a bootable sdcard.
I was then able to boot into cwm.
However, my card did not have enough space to put my noot_touch_backup file onto the card.
Also, the internal nook drive still is not showing up on my windows computers.
My card has about 1.74 gb left of free space.
Do you have any ideas on where to go from here?
Oh my goodness!!
I used win32diskimager to restore my nook_touch_backup file to my sdcard...then i rebooted and my old system is back up and running!!
I have no idea why, but I'm scared to turn my nook off again.
ok , i was have the same problem "kinda" , well follow my instruction hope it works with u
connect ur nook with ur computer for 15 mints .... or more .... between that there's a screen will show to u that ur nook cant power on ..... also ....tell me what led show to u "green or orange"
try and replay me
best regards
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centralpark said:
Hip hip hurray!! Finally, I got sd_2gb_clockwork-rc2.zip to create a bootable sdcard.
I was then able to boot into cwm.
However, my card did not have enough space to put my noot_touch_backup file onto the card.
Also, the internal nook drive still is not showing up on my windows computers.
My card has about 1.74 gb left of free space.
Do you have any ideas on where to go from here?
Oh my goodness!!
I used win32diskimager to restore my nook_touch_backup file to my sdcard...then i rebooted and my old system is back up and running!!
I have no idea why, but I'm scared to turn my nook off again.
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good to hear .... but i was have the same problem "kinda" .... anyway
congratulations
Thank You
Renate NST said:
The OMAP 3630 popups when it tries to boot off the USB.
That means that something that you have has a good mlo and u-boot.bin in the boot partition.
Whatever is after that is broken.
I would guess that your SD card is not written correctly.
It's a VFAT, look what's on there.
Is it the first (and only presumably) partition?
Is it marked active and bootable?
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Thank you for taking the time to point me in the right direction today! I truly appreciate it!! :victory:
[Q] [Urgent] NST, when sdcard put inside for rooting, says "SD card unrecognised."
Hello everyone.
So I am trying to format my new Nook Simple Touch.
Software Version : 1.2.1
Model number : BNRV300
When I put the burn the .img file (NookManager) in the SD Card [8 GB, class unknown, but it is one of the best I could get, Kingston]
and put it in the Nook Simple Touch, It says "SD Card is unrecognised. Must format". After I format it, it puts a LOST.DIR(from what I remember) folder, and My Files folder and such, and the img file is removed.
If I switch off the Nook, and do the same process with the .img file burned, it doesn't load with the sd card and on startup gives up the same message.
The problem is not with the SD card, I checked with 2.
I really need help. Anyone?
Much Thanks
Another note..
I read that the Nook Simple Touch allows internet search through the search option.
But I tried with mine, and I do not know why, but it does not work.
I have tried with all of the terms but it never works, and the shop links keep popping up.
Anybody have any idea why?
PS: I tried all ways to type a url.
Thanks
Solved!
Hey guys
I got no replies, probably because nobody ever encountered such problem.
Anyhow, I solved this.
It was due to stupidity of mine.
I had this software called ISO2DISK and thought it could be used to burn img files in a flash disk.
It didn't work. xD
So, I thought the problem was with me using my mobile phone as the SD card reader. I am not sure if that was the problem.
So, I bought a new SD Card Reader (cost me just $1) and I used WinDisk this time.
And it worked!
I am now backing up my nook.
I hope this works...and I don't brick it
Perhaps they just disagreed with labelling the thread "urgent". Your nook wasn't bricked or anything.
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Yeah
Yeah, I guess.
Sorry for that.
You'll also get this error if you only put your NST to sleep instead of powering it down then inserting the SD. Once it was powered down, I inserted the SD card and it booted up just fine.