The logo on the screen "Read Forever" should say "Bootup Forever".
I followed the steps over on http://nookdevs.com/NookTouch_Rooting. The last steps I performed were coping over the uRamdisk, unmounting everything, removing the SD card and rebooting the Nook.
I hold down the power button for about 10 seconds, the screen flashes and I get the Read Forever startup screen. After 10 minutes that is still where I am at.
What are my next steps? I made a backup of the uRamdisk file so I can try booting with the SD card in and putting the old file back? I also did the full dd backup.
I put the sd card back in, rebooted, went to the boot partition and copied the uRamdisk over a second time. This time it has worked.
I setup my memory card through WinImage to install size agnostic 1.3. I put CM7 Nightly #177 on my Boot partition of memory card and then put memory card in Nook and it installed and shutdown when completed. I turn on my Nook and it begins with the Read Forever Logo and boots off emmc... It doesn't even try to boot of the Memory card.... I noticed this after I updated my stock Nook on the emmc to B&N 1.3??? Any Ideas why my nook wont boot up Cyanogenmod boot able card? Before B&N 1.3 I would see the Cyanogenmod Logo and I could hold the home key to boot up the boot menu and select either memory card or Stock... But I can't get it too from the memory card? Any Ideas?
Thanks In Advance,
Jer
Any Ideas or Suggestions... What if I copied the u-boot.bin from the boot of the sdcard to the emmc... maybe then I could get it to boot into the cyanogenmod boot and choose the sd to boot.... I don't understand it booted up on the sd card to install the nightly(for the first time that is) and then it just doesn't boot again... it just goes directly to the stock... I know the memory slot works because I used a different memory card and it installed the nightly.... I even tried a different nightly and it install just fine but it wont boot from the memory card again.???
Power the NC off, remove the uSD, insert it back in the NC again, power on.
Try a couple times.
If still having problem, do a fresh clean install again.
Tried what you said... it still shows "Read Forever" instantly after turning it on... no cyanogenmod logo... so it is obviously not even trying to load the SD card. When you say fresh clean install, on what do I do it on... A new memory card and install the latest nightly or Factory reset on stock nook?
votinh said:
Power the NC off, remove the uSD, insert it back in the NC again, power on.
Try a couple times.
If still having problem, do a fresh clean install again.
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Press and hold the N button, then press the power button. Hold them until the green Cyangenmod logo shows AND "booting into recovery" shows up. Then release both.
It will explode CM7 the display will dim (around a 1 minute).
Watch the backlight and when it goes off, reboot the same way. It will flash the green Cyangenmod and the display will go back off (normal.)
Reboot again the same way and then instant you see the green Cyanogenmod logo release both buttons and let it boot up. It will take about 30 seconds for the CMy guy to show up and about a minute total to get to the main screen.
The problem still remains... I don't get to see the Cyanogenmod Logo... It shows the Read Forever logo and boots into Nook stock??? Its like I don't have a memory card in there.... When In stock nook it show the memory card logo in the bottom left and I can click on it it displays the files on it ... u-boot.bin file and all the others.... I just don't understand why it wont boot when turned on.
I wonder if it has anything to do with that I had Clockwork Mod on my emmc and I used the Clockwork Mod remover to get it back to stock recovery??? Maybe this messed up the boot sequence??? It s weird though when I put Cynogenmod on the memorycard the first time... it boots up the card correctly and begins the Linux Penguin install... So obvious it boots from the memory card.... I don't know what to do.
Help!!!
Just curious, but did you try to read the card in the card reader?
If you wrote it in Windows, you might have to check via disk management that a boot partition was made.
winimage sucks. Many, including myself, have had the same issue. Use win32diskimager instead. That's what worked for me.
Thank you Thank you
Win32Diskimager was the key... and too easy to use.... Thank you so much.... It took so long to find out the answer... Thanks to all that tried to help!!!
After several agonizing hours of writing image, formatting, reading, and panicking, I have finally installed CM7 via verygreen's method.
Thanks for the tip about win32diskimager. this made all the difference!
amp3d said:
After several agonizing hours of writing image, formatting, reading, and panicking, I have finally installed CM7 via verygreen's method.
Thanks for the tip about win32diskimager. this made all the difference!
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Check your stock Nook. Did you end up with Clockwork Recovery on it?
how do i check?
as far as i know, there wasnt a CWM on verygreen's method, was there?
When I wrote the image using WinImage, the NC always booted up stock. nothing out of the ordinary.
When I wrote it with Win32, it immediately loaded the installer.
but now after turning the device off, taking out the sd, booting stock, and powering off to put the sd card in, cm7 can't seem to get a wifi connection... hope to find the answer soon
So yeah, the Nook and my SD card were plugged in and I ran unooter on the drive for the nook instead of the SD card. Needless to say, it borked my Nook. It boots up fine but as soon as the OS loads it tells me the nook needs to be reset and if the problem persists to contact customer service. I think it's pretty obvious that I resized the partion on my nook so that it's too small to even operate correctly. Any ideas? Plugging the nook into my computer no longer activates it as a drive. Thanks guys.
If you can still boot, couldn't you burn the clockwork image to an SD card and do a factory reset from CWM?
If that doesn't work, you could get the zips that repartition the internal memory that are found on ths site. I don't think I can post a link yet, but just search the forum for internal memory partition and follow the directions.
At worst, you could also try the three finger reset (hold down power, both volumes, and n button for ten seconds or so until the nook turns off and restarts, and then repress as it begins to reload a total of eight times in a row.) the nook will reset to factory stock upon the eighth consecutive restart.
Of course the easiest would probably be to restore a CWM backup, but I would think you would have tried that if you could.
I don't know much about autonooter, but I am willing to bet one of those would definitely work. as long as the boot process is starting you can preempt it and then have tons of options.
I had a nook simple touch and decided to root it etc.
I originally used the touchnooter from the following lifehacker post:
lifehacker -/5889158/turn-a-99-nook-into-a-fully-fledged-android-tablet-in-four-easy-steps
It all went fine but then if froze on the 'your nook is starting up' screen.
but I realised that my nook was on FW 1.2.1 so I factory reset it.
it still hangs on the same screen.
then i tried rooting it using the nook manager method on this site:
babblingengineer /how-to/how-i-turned-my-nook-into-an-e-reader-monster/
this all seemed to go fine but alas still stuck on the same screen!
So I factory reset it again!
and lo and behold still stuck on the same screen!
I am sorta at my wits ends so any help would be much appreciated!
sorry about the URLs but forum rules wont let me post them!
stubblepoo said:
I had a nook simple touch and decided to root it etc.
I originally used the touchnooter from the following lifehacker post:
lifehacker -/5889158/turn-a-99-nook-into-a-fully-fledged-android-tablet-in-four-easy-steps
It all went fine but then if froze on the 'your nook is starting up' screen.
but I realised that my nook was on FW 1.2.1 so I factory reset it.
it still hangs on the same screen.
then i tried rooting it using the nook manager method on this site:
babblingengineer /how-to/how-i-turned-my-nook-into-an-e-reader-monster/
this all seemed to go fine but alas still stuck on the same screen!
So I factory reset it again!
and lo and behold still stuck on the same screen!
I am sorta at my wits ends so any help would be much appreciated!
sorry about the URLs but forum rules wont let me post them!
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I'm still new at this (I had the same problem as you last night, actually).
I forgot that the SD card was still in the NST. The NST boots off the SD card first (compared to the interal file system) if the SD card contains a bootable image. If you take the SD out, it will boot on the internal file system and not the SD card. My problem was I had a faulty boot image on my SD card and so it was hanging on the boot because of that.
So I would take out the SD card and then hold the power button down until it reboots. Then immediately press the bottom two buttons on the front at the same time until it asks you to factory wipe, which is sounds like you have done before. I did this and it started up again, just like new.
Although you said that you used NookManager, which asks you to take out your SD card before it reboots, right? So maybe my help is of no use.
Right, the SD card was out and I tried the factory reset again anyway.
Still no luck.
cheers for your help though.
Anyone else have any ideas?
My son's rooted Nook with glowlight froze up, just unresponsive.
I had made backups of his nook using roadkills disk image a while ago.
I first made sure his nook is fully charged, then decided I needed to restore.
So I put the noogie sd card in his nook, plugged the nook into my laptop, used minitool partition wizard to delete all partitions, and then used roadkills disk image to write the backup image onto his nook.
Now the nook won't move off the Rooted Forever screen.
We have held down the power button, release, press again repeatedly - all to no avail.
I have also tried to hold down the bottom page turn L & R buttons to get back to factory reset - again no response.
the nook is remaining at the Rooted Forever screen.
Any suggestions?
and yes, I did remove the noogie disk before trying to restart the nook.
ok, I think I have found the issue. I re-inserted the noogie disk, and was able to restore a different backup and that worked.
Must have been something wrong with the first backup. Thankfully I had more than one backup.
Whew!