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Need Help with SD Card booting...

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

Sigh... I ran unooter on my nook color's drive instead of my sd card. Derp.

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.

[Q] Nook Color Perma-Bricked???

Ok. The other day I was trying to run cm7.2 off the sdcard with cm10 nightlies on the emmc. I burned the image through winimage and then powered down my nook color, as standard instructions go. Put in the sdcard, the penguin came on with the text, and then it did the shutdown it normally does. The nook was fully charged, and when I held down the power button, nothing happened. I took out the sdcard after it did not turn and tried to turn it on booting from the emmc. Nothing. It has been like this for days. I have tried everything from plugging it into the computer and a/c power source, letting the nook die and then fully charge, and use a bootable CWR sdcard. No response at all from my Nook Color. I'm scared that it is bricked and wondering if there is anything I can do before I try to get a replacement from B&N.

It is very difficult to brick a Nook Color. Usually when the Nook acts like that it means you corrupted the boot files on emmc. It will not power on unless there are good boot files there. But it should have booted with the CWM card in it. Try making my CWM card from my NC tips thread linked in my signature and booting with that. See item A10. And of course make sure it is charged when you do. If it does, flash a new ROM on emmc and it will replace those corrupt files. If flashing a new ROM does not revive it, look at my partition repair thread also linked in my signature.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on Hybrid SD

In the end, the NOOK would not boot off of any bootable SD card, leading me to think this was a hardware failure. I just ordered an out-of-warranty NOOK Color from B&N for $65. Thanks for helping me anyway.

nvm my nook just started working today before i was about to pay for a replacement. weird!

[Q] NST won't reboot from "rooted forever"

HI, i try changing partition size with out lack and now my nook wont reboot.
I inserted de SD with noogie and got to "rooted forever" screen saw my partitions and all.... but removing the SD and now the nook can't get restarted...
any idea how to solve this¿¿
thanks

Hold down the power button for 20 seconds.
If that doesn't work you probably killed something in the boot partition.
Go back to noogie again and fix it.

Renate NST said:
Hold down the power button for 20 seconds.
If that doesn't work you probably killed something in the boot partition.
Go back to noogie again and fix it.
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thanks..
what do you mean go back to noogie to fix...? noogie only gets me to the reooted forever screen.
BTW i haven't toched anything on the nook.
EDIT: with the noogie SD in, the nooks reboots just fine... the problem comes with out the sd

Well, why did you start with the noogie in the first place?
To root, presumably.
Did you replace any files or run any super-nooter-thingie?
Look at the mounted drive under noogie and see what is there.

[Q] trouble installing cm s0.2 on Nook color

I had previously installed cm 10.2 on my nook. When its battery ran down completely and I restarted I lost the android system.
I have tried to re-install cm 10 on this same unit via the sd card, but although the cyanomod loader is there, the system doen't start up. Rather the nook blinks and then boots the Nook system.
I need suggestions.

So you had 10.2 on the SD card. Through cyanoboot can you enter recovery? (hold the n button to get into the menu.)
txkatylarry said:
I had previously installed cm 10.2 on my nook. When its battery ran down completely and I restarted I lost the android system.
I have tried to re-install cm 10 on this same unit via the sd card, but although the cyanomod loader is there, the system doen't start up. Rather the nook blinks and then boots the Nook system.
I need suggestions.
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Can't get cm 10.2 to run on Nook color
wmuflyer said:
So you had 10.2 on the SD card. Through cyanoboot can you enter recovery? (hold the n button to get into the menu.)
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I should have been more specific. I tried to get it to run on the original sd card, but in my attempts that card became unusual. I bought a 4gb,Kingston and have been trying to get that card to run. But the nook insists on booting into the Nook system. Again when I use SDFormat and then win32diskmanager to write generic sdcard v1.3 cm7-9-10 img to the sd card everything seems good. Then put the gapps and cm10 zip files on the card along with uAltimg and uAltram. With the card in the Nook, I restart and the penguin appears and the loading proceeds to shutdown. On restart no cyanomod circle or boot into cyanomod. Any suggestions appreciated. This is very frustrating since I succeeded previously.