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I have tried everything to get my nook to boot.
I had Cyanogen 7 on my nook for a while and decided to upgrade to one of the newer nightlies. Now all I get the cyanogen logo, then the "black screen" even when I try to go to Recovery mode. I've tried numerous times to load Monster RootPack/Clockwork just to get something to load up so I can wipe, and reload stock and start over. But nothing seems to work. I can get in via ADB, but I can't load any files, it seems my sdcard isn't loading.
I have loaded the boot.img and system.img to my sdcard. I can ADB in with my Mac Terminal, but everytime I try to load the file, I get
dd: /sdcard/boot.img: No such file or directory
is there a way i can see if the sdcard is mounted, and if its not, how do i mount it?
okay, somehow i got in cwr and restored back to 1.0.1, but now i put in a sd card with 3.2.0.1 bootable SD recovery image, and it just books stock nook, it wont boot from the sdcard. did i mess up something?
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okay, somehow i got in cwr and restored back to 1.0.1, but now i put in a sd card with 3.2.0.1 bootable SD recovery image, and it just books stock nook, it wont boot from the sdcard. did i mess up something?
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I had problem with booting from the SD til I realized that
1) WindowsXP really sucks, even with the recommended writer, handling sd cards with more than one partition (Win7 has been much better, and prompted me to get my card/sata/usb reader installed.) Often, after writing the SD card I still could not see the boot partition.
2) I borked my size agnostic image, which caused me a couple of hours of consternation.
Basically, if it wont boot from the SD card, there's something wrong with the image on the SD card. B&N made these things (As I read it) nearly unbrickable.
Hello,
Complete noob here and I am not ashamed to admit it. I did create a bootable sd card with CM7 stable on it and the card is partitioned into 4 spaces. The boot space only has a capacity of 117.63 MB, while the 4th partition named CM7 SDCARD has a whopping 28.21GB available.... 112.14MB used..... Im guessing for application. Anyways, I am trying to put books and videos on my NC and there is not enough space that is accessible. Any way to make that boot partition spave larger? Maybe move some of the extra space from the 4th partition? I have EASEUS Partition Master but I have been unable to get it to work..... Any help is greatly appreciated.
I did search for a post like this but did not find any answers which I understood.
Thanks in advance,
What is it that you are trying to do?
Homer
I am trying to put books on my sdcard that I downloaded on my computer for school. When I copy to the directory boot/myfiles/books it says that there is not enough space. So I want to enlarge the size of the boot partition
After you burn the partition image using Win32Image, the size of the boot partition is roughly 117mb. At this point use EASEUS partition to expand the boot partition to the size you want. In my 32gb SD card, I created a 16gb partition. Then I copied CM7.1 and Gapps to the partition, booted NC and CM7.1 was set up in the remaining space, with /data at 5gb and /media at 9gb.
Would you then access the files while booting from the SDcard or internal memory (eMMC)?
If you want to see them when booting from SDcard, don't put them on /boot as you have found out there is not much room. You want them on partition 4. Remember that Windows will not mount partition 4 without some heroic efforts. I use either NookColor UMS (free, see here) or WiFi Explorer Pro (paid, check either Android or Amazon Market).
If you want to see them when booting from eMMC, that is slightly more advanced. You don't have to root, but there is a file on the system on eMMC that needs to be edited to mount partition 4 rather than partition 1. It would take some time to search for it, but someone posted a guide a while back. Search for something like sharing SDcard and/or editing vold.
Homer
Ok...... So I got the boot partition resized to around 20gb and I have copied the books from my hd to the sd card E:\My Files\Books...... Problem is I now cannot acess them when I boot CM7..... Any fix to this or will I have to boot from the eMMC?
Ok....
You're making the easy stuff hard...
You want a large partition that is accessible by CM7 running off the SD and your windows PC. Like Homer said, it is nigh impossible to get windows to mount secondary partitions off of an SD card reader. What he forgot is that CM7 allows you to access partitions 3 and 4 over USB. CM7 can access the boot partition but most apps won't look there and it won't be accessible over USB.
I would recommend that you restart from scratch. Allow verygreens installer to set up the default partitions. Plug your device into your PC and transfer your pdfs to partition 4 that-a-ways. That way you won't have to remove the sd card anytime you want to access your pdf folder.
Even when you plug the CM7 booted NC into your PC, you still need to mount the /sdcard partition to Windows. I find it is easiest to use NookColorUMS on the NC to mount that partition, see above. Otherwise, when you plug into the Windows machine you only get /boot mounted.
Homer
Homer_S_xda said:
Even when you plug the CM7 booted NC into your PC, you still need to mount the /sdcard partition to Windows. I find it is easiest to use NookColorUMS on the NC to mount that partition, see above. Otherwise, when you plug into the Windows machine you only get /boot mounted.
Homer
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Hmm, when I plugged a nook running CM7 from SD card, I get access to /media and /sdcard. I had to move the gapps.zip from /sdcard to /boot manually using a file explorer.
I'm offering an apology to gall and Homer first so pls don't jump on me.
You guys harden a simple issue and confusing the OP.
To OP,
I assume you got a 32GB uSD card, using verygreen's image. You got 117MB on boot.
LEAVE the boot partition ALONE. The only thing you should put there are the ROM (CM7 zip file) and the GApp zip file. NOTHING ELSE. Your music/ebook/video, etc. should NEVER go there. You will place them in the left-over storage created by CM7, normally called CM7SDCARD.
How do you access CM7SDCARD so that you can transfer files over?
The only way is
+ NC on
+ connecting NC to PC (windows)
+ look at the NC notification bar, usb icon should be displayed
+ tap on it, enable usb mass storage (connect to PC for file transferring....)
+ Windows PC should by now recognized the CM7SDCARD and ready for use.
That's the ONLY WAY and the correct way.
If you use that bootable CM7 uSD and plug directly into PC, you only see the boot partition which only 117MB. Again, the boot partition is NOT meant for personal stuff.
What may confuse some people is that when they plug the device into PC then it does not by default auto-mount so you don't get a drive in the PC until you use the USB notification and turn on USB storage.
For non-techie users I normally install the automount USB app from JRTStudio so the drive pops up straight away on the PC and there is no confusion over this point.
The other good reason for using the USB (or alternatively wireless connections like ES File Explorer) is that it reduces taking the SD card in and out and any risk of damaging the socket.
My apologies, I never checked out the USB notification. I sort of ignored it. It seems a handy implementation of the basic functionality of NooKColorUMS.
What is MyNOOKColor though? CM7 SDcard is the one I typically use. Nevermind: it is the eMMC. I never bothered with that one since going to SDcard boot.
Homer
Hi,
First off if this is answered I am sorry.
I did a lot of searching and was unable to see the answer to this...
I am running CM7.1 off uSD. Install went well, and have no issues. That being said, I am unable to find out where on the card to sideload books. I have booted into CM7.1, turned on USB storage, and have 2 drives appear in win: MYNOOK and CM7 SDCARD. I used the size agnostic image, and it appears that there is only the single partition on the card, and in file explorer, it shows the correct card size for memory, but only the single partition.
The only folders appearing on the card are:
.android_secure
Android
LOST.DIR
I tried to manually copy the books, media, etc. folders into a My Files folder on this drive, without success.
There is no other partition to repartition (shouldn't have to do that with size agnostic?). I have no problem loading books into the MYNOOK book folder, which I assume is the internal device memory.
Here is my question. How/where do I sideload books to use the storage on the uSD card? Do I have to create the folders somewhere? If so where?
My goal is to utilize the storage available on the card, but be able to read the titles in the stock software. Is it possible to do this without rooting, or do I need to root for any reason to access the right folders on the card for storage?
THANK YOU ALL!!
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I tried to manually copy the books, media, etc. folders into a My Files folder on this drive, without success.
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In what way was it not successful? Did the files copy and just can't find them with a reader? If so which reader?
The book I transferred over was not found in the stock software when I opened my library. Is there somewhere specific I am supposed to place it on the card for the Nook to see it? Thanks!
For the stock reader, I think you must use the 1gb area of the internal memory drive, which shows up as a separate drive on your PC when you plug it into the computer. When you are in CM7 and connect to the pc, cancel when it tries to install a device for the NC. Check the notifications on the NC, you need to click a button to enable copying files from your pc, and take care to properly safely remove/eject before disabling that and disconnecting the cable from your pc. Better to get a separate reader and install it from the market (e.g., Cool Reader). You can also install the Nook app from the market, but then books need to go within (possibly in a specific subdir) of the "Nook" folder on SDCARD.
So there is no way to use the card memory to store books if I want to use the stock reader??
Should there have been a "NOOK" folder created on the SD card as part of the CM7 process? Is that a file that the user needs to create? If so, does it go in the same partition as the CM7, as that is the only partition my machine is able to see?
thanks again
Hopefully you'll get more input on this, but I think the point of keeping the Nook stock available (aside from not voiding your warranty) relates to use of B&N books. However you can eject your CM sd card and use another sd card if you want more space for user media for use with the stock app. I thought the media drive was the 1gb area, but now I'm not so sure because on mine the MYNOOK disk is much smaller.
When you are in the stock firmware... you are seeing the boot partition of the uSD...
You can write the boot partition... resize it... then run the installer...
I have done it in the past... set up a 2GB boot partition... then setup the ROM on uSD. You then have a 2GB partition you can use when in stock.
Thanks for the info. I am a bit confused by your suggestion, can you please offer a bit more?
By writing the boot partition, then resizing it, does that mean I can resize now, after I have already set everything up? If so, what do you mean by the installer? Or do you mean I have to wipe the card and start over? If that is the case (start over) do you mean wipe the card, create a small partition for the boot to install on? Would that requre the use of an image that is not size agnostic?
Either way, how do I get the file structure in place on the non boot partition for the nook to see files that are saved there?
Thanks again for any help you can provide!
I have never had luck resizing it after it has been booted in the Nook and all the partitions created...
I have written the size agnostic image to the card... resized the only partition created at that point... then put the ROM on it and booted it in the nook so the installer script (size agnostic recovery) can do the partitioning and install the ROM.
For the question of getting the file structure... I'd have to ask how you wrote the files on the uSD... were you CM or stock?
I had always planned on running cm from the card, so when I wrote the files to the card, I was stock.
If I follow what you are saying, then steps for me to try at this point would be:
1. Reformat card
2. Write the disk image to the card
3. Shrink the single partition on the card (where the image is)
4. Add the CM ROM to same partition as the image
5. Install card and boot device
If this sounds right, I have 2 questions.
What size should the partition be for the image and CM ROM, maybe 2GB?
Will the Nook "see" the non-CM partition and create the file structure for saving files on the 2nd partition at some point? In my searches I saw that in early versions, there was a requirement that the 4th partition on the card be expanded to use for storage, won't I only have 2 at this point?
Thanks again so much for the help!
When you write the image to the card... it will only be about 114 MB.... you will probably want to increase the size to avoid any possible size issues later (with ROM's getting larger)
If you plan to use the stock nook ROM as well as CM7... you will probably want 2 GB boot partition... otherwise if you plan to only run CM7 you probably only want about 250 MB.
You can modify vold.fstab on the stock ROM to use partition 4 of the SD for its SD use... then you could avoid the 2 GB boot partition.
What happens when you use VG's SASD... the boot image is about 114 MB... when you boot it in the nook it creates partitions 2, 3 and 4... 2 and 3 are ext3 partitions, partition 4 is fat... partition 4 is the one set for sdcard in the ROM booted from SD...
This is why you can modify stock vold.fstab to point to partition 4... then both ROM's will be putting stuff on the same partition for "SD Card"
I think I follow that, but my issue is that currently I am unable to see partition 2,3 or 4 which I think is part of my problem.
When I set up the card, I used the SASD method, and all I can see in both win explorer and partition software is the single partition on the card. Should there also be partitions 2,3, and 4? Do I have to do something to make those partitions viewable?
I am not comfortable enough with my skill level to attempt to modify the stock vold.fstab file on the device, and was hopeful that by properly setting up the card, I would be able to keep stock as is, and use the card to multipurpose, ie run cm7 on part and use the remaining space on card to store books to be read in stock firmware. I am still hoping to do that....thanks
As far as only seeing partition 1.... that is a limitation of Windows.
By following the advice pertaining to starting over and increasing the size of the Boot partition immediately after writing the image... before doing anything else... you can provide more space for the stock ROM to use on the SD... it will use partiton 1 (the boot partition) without the other modifications to vold.fstab
ok, confused again
If I start over, write image, then resize that partition with the image, am I going to use the "rest" of the card, NOT in that partition to use with storage? OR am I going to resize the partition with the image to be big enough to use as the partition to put books on?
If it is the former, don't I again run into the problem of how to find the other partitions, or will I create them when resize the first partition after writing the image?
Thank you!
You will only ever see the first partition of the sd card when booting from the stock OS. Also with the card inserted in a usb flash card reader on Windows you can only mount the first partition as a drive letter. But you can see and resize partitions with contiguous unallocated space using MiniTools Partition Wizard.
OK thats good to know. Do you know if the SASD install should have created other partitions when I installed to the card? The reason I ask is that even in Partition Wizard, I am still only able to see the 1 large partition with everything in it.
If I start over again, will I need to use the wizard to create partitions first, then write the image to the resized 2 GB first partition, or should I write image to card, resize the first partition? If the latter, will resizing the first partition autmatically force the other partitions to be seen? I am not sure of this option, as I can't see where in the process the other partitions are created? Is this part of the process when CM7 boots?
Thanks!
Write the image. Safely remove from pc. Reinsert to pc. Use minitool partition to resize the (only, at that point) partition to the size you want. Use Apply in minitool software. Quit minitool and resume with the card setup.
does the minitool at that point (resizing) create the other partitions, or will the card setup do that? Do I have to do anything else to the other partitions to make them visable to the stock nook so that they can be used to access books while in stock os?
The card setup will create the other partitions. The stock os is never going to see anything but the 1st partition. You would need a terminal emulator or rooted file explorer installed in the stock os in order to mount another partition.
If that is the case, that stock os will never see anything other than the 1st partition, then there really is no way to accomplish what I am trying to do, correct?
In other words, put CM7 on the card, then when I want to use stock, boot into stock and have the reader find books saved on the card?
Hi everyone!
I just got CM7 (latest stable release) installed on on external sdhc card. I have wifi issues with CM7 (and looking around the forums tells me that CM7 can be finicky with certain routers) so I would love to be able to use Nook's stock ROM (4.1.4) when I am having issues.
But, when I am on NC ROM, I don't see anything except the small boot partition on the SD and when I am on CM7, I don't get access to this boot partition. I am wondering if there is a way to either create another partition or make the currently existing partitions accessible on both ROMS so that I can share data between them.
I am a n00b without any Android experience so thanks in advance for your patient responses.
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Hi everyone!
I just got CM7 (latest stable release) installed on on external sdhc card. I have wifi issues with CM7 (and looking around the forums tells me that CM7 can be finicky with certain routers) so I would love to be able to use Nook's stock ROM (4.1.4) when I am having issues.
But, when I am on NC ROM, I don't see anything except the small boot partition on the SD and when I am on CM7, I don't get access to this boot partition. I am wondering if there is a way to either create another partition or make the currently existing partitions accessible on both ROMS so that I can share data between them.
I am a n00b without any Android experience so thanks in advance for your patient responses.
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Look in my signature for a link to my tips thread. I explain there how to make the SD media partition available to both ROMs (item B3).
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Look in my signature for a link to my tips thread. I explain there how to make the SD media partition available to both ROMs (item B3).
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*That's* the one I wanted to point them to.
leapinlar said:
Look in my signature for a link to my tips thread. I explain there how to make the SD media partition available to both ROMs (item B3).
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Thanks.
Do you mean step #3 in Section B? I could edit it without running your script too, can't I?
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Thanks.
Do you mean step #3 in Section B? I could edit it without running your script too, can't I?
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If whatever you have on emmc is rooted, you can manually edit it. If you have unrooted stock, then you need to flash the zip since without root you cannot edit those files manually. And I did mean item B3. Each item is a different topic, they are not steps. One topic does not depend on another. Just do B3 and no others if you want.
Yes, item B3. My mistake...
I should be able to do flash the zip from my current CM7 SD card's boot partition, shouldn't I?
So I put the update-stockemmc-vold-fstab-modified-for-partition4.zip file in the boot partition of the SD card, rebooted to Recovery mode and then booted to NC's stock ROM. NC is still using the tiny boot partition on the SD card as my external storage instead of the much larger CM7 partition. This was the same partition that was under 'My Files / Memory card' before I flashed so nothing has changed. I did this twice to double-check.
Am I doing this wrong?
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Yes, item B3. My mistake...
I should be able to do flash the zip from my current CM7 SD card's boot partition, shouldn't I?
So I put the update-stockemmc-vold-fstab-modified-for-partition4.zip file in the boot partition of the SD card, rebooted to Recovery mode and then booted to NC's stock ROM. NC is still using the tiny boot partition on the SD card as my external storage instead of the much larger CM7 partition. This was the same partition that was under 'My Files / Memory card' before I flashed so nothing has changed. I did this twice to double-check.
Am I doing this wrong?
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Yes you are doing it wrong. You need to flash that file with a CWM card, not put in the boot partition of your SD. And since you did that, you need to re-flash your latest ROM on SD to correct your mistake. (I will edit my instructions to make it a little clearer that you use CWM to flash that file.)
I got NC stock ROM to see my SD card partition by following item A10. That is most excellent and thanks again!
Unfortunately, I no longer see the boot partition when I attach NC to my computer whether NC is running off stock ROM or CM7. My guess is that this is due to my failed attempt to flash from my CM7 SD card yesterday. Am I right?
I thought I could reverse that by copying the update-stockemmc-vold-fstab-return-to-stock.zip file to CM7's boot (and then booting to the recovery mode) but that seemed to have nothing.
If I understand your previous message correctly, I should re-do my entire SD card but... I have already spent a few hours downloading and customizing the Android apps. Is there a way to preserve all that before Win32diskimager destroys the contents of the SD card?
Is there a way to manually mount the /etc folder from a unix prompt and alter the file?
Does it even matter if I don't see boot while I attach NC to a computer? Are there any caveats to 'let it be'?
Questions, questions and more questions...
That leads me to the obvious question, is there a book that explains Android to someone who is not interested in programming it but wants to understand the architecture and design of the OS (and custom ROMs)?
Thanks for being patient with all these n00b questions.
andrandom said:
I got NC stock ROM to see my SD card partition by following item A10. That is most excellent and thanks again!
Unfortunately, I no longer see the boot partition when I attach NC to my computer whether NC is running off stock ROM or CM7. My guess is that this is due to my failed attempt to flash from my CM7 SD card yesterday. Am I right?
I thought I could reverse that by copying the update-stockemmc-vold-fstab-return-to-stock.zip file to CM7's boot (and then booting to the recovery mode) but that seemed to have nothing.
If I understand your previous message correctly, I should re-do my entire SD card but... I have already spent a few hours downloading and customizing the Android apps. Is there a way to preserve all that before Win32diskimager destroys the contents of the SD card?
Is there a way to manually mount the /etc folder from a unix prompt and alter the file?
Does it even matter if I don't see boot while I attach NC to a computer? Are there any caveats to 'let it be'?
Questions, questions and more questions...
That leads me to the obvious question, is there a book that explains Android to someone who is not interested in programming it but wants to understand the architecture and design of the OS (and custom ROMs)?
Thanks for being patient with all these n00b questions.
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You do not need or want to re-set up the whole SD installation. Just put the same CM7 zip file back in the boot partition and boot to SD recovery. It will put the correct vold.fstab back on the SD. You will not lose any settings or apps you have already set up. (And putting the return to stock zip there was also the wrong thing to do. The vold.fstab for stock and CM7 are different. But don't worry, it will fix that too.)
You are not supposed to see the boot partition on the PC when you plug the nook in with the cable. You are only supposed to see 'emmc' and 'sdcard'. Under the original setup, your stock system thought the boot partition was 'sdcard' and that was why you saw it on your PC. Since you modified stock to see partition 4 as 'sdcard', partition 4 is what the PC sees, not the boot partition.
Most people have to physically take the card out of the nook and put it in the PC to see the boot partition on the PC. If you don't want to do that, use my script in item B4. But since you are on CM7, you will not be adding many things to the boot partition to install with SD recovery in the future. So it is probably best to leave things be.
And I don't know of any books to help you.
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That is excellent news!
A bit of playing around with Astro tells me that I was wrong about seeing the 'CM7 SDCARD' partition when I was on CM7 ROM. I am only seeing the boot. Anyway, I am going to flash the CM7 ROM again and I am hoping it would fix everything.
Also, yes, I can see the boot partition when I put the SD card directly on my computer but I was also able to see it when I hooked up the NC to my computer via USB before I did my unintended tweaks but... I'll survive.
I'll be back after I flash. (Famous last words??)
Mission accomplished!
Thanks again for all your help.
For future reference after you alter stock's fstab... all you have to do is:
mkdir /sdcard/boot (only have to do this one time)
mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /sdcard/boot (do this every time you want to put something on the boot partition)
put anything you want on boot partition in /sdcard/boot
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For future reference after you alter stock's fstab... all you have to do is:
mkdir /sdcard/boot (only have to do this one time)
mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /sdcard/boot (do this every time you want to put something on the boot partition)
put anything you want on boot partition in /sdcard/boot
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Yes, there is one big advantage to using that method. I think it allows the boot partition to be seen not only on the nook, but also on the PC when you plug in the usb.
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Yes, there is one big advantage to using that method. I think it allows the boot partition to be seen not only on the nook, but also on the PC when you plug in the usb.
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We could probably come up with a symlink to /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 to /sdcard/boot and avoid having to mount it everytime as well.
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We could probably come up with a symlink to /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 to /sdcard/boot and avoid having to mount it everytime as well.
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Thank you Dizz, your suggestion got me to thinking and I was able to come up with an init.d bash script that does the trick. I just temporarily mounted sdcard and created the sdcard/boot directory and the mounted the boot partition to it, then unmounted sdcard so it could be mounted again by the system later in the boot sequence.
The only problem is now sdcard will not mount on the PC using UMS mass storage. Must be because of having a second mount within the mount. But it does mount with MTP. But that may be acceptable. I will test some more, including using Goo Manager tomorrow.
EDIT (6-21): Goo Manager works. But I think I have figured out why sdcard is not mounting in UMS. Once it is mounted in my script and the boot partition mounted under it, it cannot be unmounted. And since it cannot be unmounted, it cannot be mounted later by the system as vold. If it cannot be mounted as vold, it does not show in UMS. For now I think I will leave it as I have it in Rev 2 of my script (symlinking to the root directory with full r/w permissions). If people want to see the boot partition on the PC, just use my modified for CM9 NookColorUMS available in my tips thread.
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Help!
When CM7 is running, my computer is no longer mounting any of the partitions when I connect NC to my computer via the USB cable.
If the NC stock ROM is running, my computer mounts all three partitions (MyNook..., boot and CM7SDcard) but calibre is not recognizing the external partitions for transfers.
Further, when I boot to my NC stock ROM, I am no longer seeing my SD card's contents in the NC's library.
This may have something to do with the fact that NC stock ROM seemed to have updated itself to 4.1.3.
Should I re-run the scripts again or am I missing something else?
When it was updated to 1.4.3, you lost the emmc mods. Just re-flash my zip with the CWM SD. You may have lost CWM on emmc too.
On CM7, you have to select the turn on storage button after you plug it in. It is not automatic like stock. Pull up the notification area and touch the turn on button.
Darn, I forgot about that 'USB' option under notifications. Enabling it allows me to find the partitions. I will run your scripts again when I find a spare mUSB card.
Thanks again for your help!
My wife's touch was booting fine into either stock or android but now when it boots there is no option to go to android, it just boots up to the mostly stock nook. The only clue android is still there is button saver which is still there but that's all that shows along with the µsd card.
Again, the touch will not give me dual boot options any more, just the nook.
Any clues or would I have to redo everything?
Thanks
The only real "dual boot" is the selection between normal boot and recovery and you're probably not talking about that.
With a normal boot, it will try to start a launcher.
If you haven't clicked the invisible box yet saying "Remember my preference" it will ask you whether you want to run "Home" or "Launcher".
Once you accidentally or intentionally click that box it won't ask you anymore.
There are tools to fix this or you can do it the lower level way.
The file /data/system/packages.xml holds many things, including this preference.
Find a section like this:
Code:
<preferred-activities>
<item name= ...
...
</item>
</preferred-activities>
And delete the whole thing.
Thanks for the help Renate.
I've hooked the nook to the computer and 2 files come up, one the cards' content and the other, only 4 files, which is the nook rom?
I have data files showing but no system nor packages.xml files. I have no problems editing xml or many other type files but obviously I'm not looking in the right place. Could you show me the way please?
Thank you
The standard USB mounts on the Nook won't get you where you want.
You need to be using ADB or else have noogie running off a card.
You need access to the /data partition where the /data/system/packages.xml is.
I think this was set up with noogie. I can't find a 'data' partition. On the sd card there is no adb and only 2 data files neither of which contain what I need. Something along the way seem to have been lost.
Where might those tools be that you mentioned, perhaps they would work?
Thanks for the help,
Okay, I was a little slow on the uptake. I created a noogie.img card, put it into the nook, plugged into computer usb, waited for it to boot which it did. After booting up I did not see any different partitions. I still only saw the 4 nook files and the contents of the sd card which are the noogie files.
I'll redo the noogie.img after getting a fresh copy but will it work?
Edit: I mounted a fresh copy of noogie.img and it still doesn't work. I can't see the partitions. Not sure if this is relevant or not but when I boot up with the noogie card in as soon as I unlock it I get a pop up saying the card needs formatting and either format or cancel. Of course I hit cancel but should it be doing that?
2nd Edit: I used a different image writer, win32diskimager, and now it boots to a Rooted Forever screen. The only folder/partition showing on the computer is boot: with .pgm and .bin etc files, no other partitions show up.
What else can I do?
Sorry, if you are running noogie and using Windows you can easily only access the VFAT partitions.
Running Linux or installing some EXT2 extensions you should be able to make it work.
If you are rooted, you should be able to use ADB.
If you run Clockwork Recovery you should be able to use ADB.