Could someone point me toward a guide that include the step by step instructions on how to reformat your microSD card after a CWM image has been burnt onto it to get it back to it's original size/recognizable in the Nook/PC.
This to me is the most frustrating part of loading ROMs on the Nook and I don't believe it's laid out step by step in any guides. They simply leave it at downloading a partition manager software tool, but not what do to within that tool.
Thanks!
I would actually recommend just buying a cheap card that you use just for flashing images. Rather than backing up, image burning, then reformatting your card each time you want to do something in CWM, spend the $6 online and buy a cheap 2GB card that you use only for this purpose. I know it isn't required, but I still use a bootable SD card with CWM recovery on it to flash new nightlies or really anything else.
I know this doesn't answer your question, but it is my solution to this problem.
While I agree you should consider a new card in case things ever go south, you should be able to put it into a card reader and format it with Windows. You can also wait until the NC is booted up and then insert the card and format it with the NC.
I actually do have a dedicated cheap card with CWM loaded on it. The problem I ran into this time was that someone had approached me with a stock nook wanting a ROM loaded onto it. So I needed yet another card to burn a root image onto. So I was stuck having to burn that image on an 8GB not so cheap card and then could never get it back to 8GB or recognizable in my PC/Nook by using various software packages.
It also causes all sorts of FCs when inserted into the Nook running MIUI. Once it's removed they go away.
Regardless, if anyone knows of a guide or the steps to doing so that actually works, it would be appreciated and I have to imagine I'm not the only one who runs into this extremely frustrating issue.
i could be wrong
but cant you boot into default nook, not booting off the microSD card and reformat the microSD card?
even if you rooted/formatted the built-in memory for android/cm7 over the nook color OS, you should be able to format the card.
the other question that i have the the OP
have you tried to access the card from all os (win, mac, linux) both through a usb adapter and through the nook directly connected to the pc/mac?
I have not had that issue with either a USB card reader or with the Nook. Do you have access to a camera that uses micro SDHC cards? You can usually format it there as well. After that, Windows should recognize the card in a reader and let you delete any folders the camera placed on it.
WWWestonC said:
Could someone point me toward a guide that include the step by step instructions on how to reformat your microSD card after a CWM image has been burnt onto it to get it back to it's original size/recognizable in the Nook/PC.
This to me is the most frustrating part of loading ROMs on the Nook and I don't believe it's laid out step by step in any guides. They simply leave it at downloading a partition manager software tool, but not what do to within that tool.
Thanks!
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I think we need a little more information about what you are trying to achieve?
If you are looking to get your uSD back to its "fresh off the rack from the store" state, the easiest thing to do would be to just use your NC to reformat the card from within it's "Settings" area.
But, if you have loaded CM7 (or whichever ROM) onto the eMMC of your nook, then you would need to use Android's tools to do this.
When using an imaging tool to prepare the uSD, I would recommend Image Writer for Windows to write your ROM images to the uSD. It is pretty easy to use, and way better than WinImage. Use the 0.3 (Lost) release.
In my case, I just used verygreens solution of installing CM7 to my uSD, it is a one time set up and I only have to drop new nightlies onto the /boot partition whenever I want to upgrade (which is everytime a new nightly comes out, heh). I never take my uSD out of the NC anymore.
If you are looking to repartition your uSD card to get a bigger /boot partition so you can rest assured that the bigger nightlies will fit (essential if you have alternate image and ramdisk files for the alternate boot scenario), then I would follow this post in verygreen's guide.
In response to some of the questions, I am trying to get my SD card back to off the shelf so it can be used in the Nook for storage.
I have not tried on another OS to format the card. I only have Windows XP on my laptop. I could try on my Windows 7 desktop but would be very surprised if that solves the issue. I cannot see it when it is plugged in via USB adapter to my PC.
I have MIUI 1.7.22 ROM loaded on the eMMC of my Nook and using Android's format option does not work as it is greyed out.
Nothing recognizes it except for Easus Partition Manager, but I've tried everything under the sun (Deleting Partition/Wiping Partition/Assigning Drive Letter/Increasing size) and can't get it to return to a usable state.
WWWestonC said:
In response to some of the questions, I am trying to get my SD card back to off the shelf so it can be used in the Nook for storage. [snip...]
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In Android, I think you have to unmount the uSD before you can "erase" it (thus effectively re-formating it to it's maximum size).
I would do it this way if you are able to, because you are guaranteed a uSD card that Android will recognize every time. Devices that use removable cards this way know how to properly format them. Desktop OSs treat them as removable media (i.e. like disks/discs) and do not always format them properly using a a USB adapter.
When formating SD/uSD cards on your PC, your best bet is to use an actual card reader that connects to your PC via a USB cable (like the multi-card readers).
Here is a formatting tool specifically for SD/uSD cards from the SD Association website (https://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/). Instructions are at their website too.
Incidently, if you have access to a Mac system running OS X, the Disk Utility app in Applications > Utilities will also format your uSD and get it back to stock where Win machines have problems. I know this from personal experience.
Here is another thread, Read All About it: WP7 SD-card format working., with more formatting info that may or may not be helpful...
Short of a Mac system, you could install Linux (I recommend Ubuntu currently) in a VirtualBox virtual machine environment and give that a go in your Win7 environment. If you go this route, you also want to install the Extention Pack for USB 2.0 support. Then you end up with a more versatile OS for tinkering around in all within your Win7 evironment....
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A while back ago I purchased a Disc with all kinds of recovery and maintenance programs for all versions of Winders from a company called "Spotmau". One of the uitlities in BootCare is a great partitioning program called Partition Genius, that enables you to move, shrink, add/subtract partitions without having to wipe entire drive. Specifically, I am able to modify an SD Micro card without having to flip the non-removable bit.
My question is, should I just leave the new ext3 or ext4 partition as such or should I go ahead and format it in Linux? The program has the ability for this.
This is a bootup CD so you'll work in a non-winders environment but it does the trick really good.
G1, on AT&T
CyanogenMod 4.2.13
16GB Sandisk SDHC.
Just use the recovery image in my sig, no need to have a card reader or anything extra on the computer.
Filp the non-removable bit?
Non-Removable bit
I was taught that a PC will not partition an SD card or a USB flash drive because it is addressed as a removable drive. By flipping this "Non-Removable Bit", the PC, and any partitioning program will now recognize the USB or SD card as a permanent or fixed drive. I tried a program that was published by Lexmark but I didn't get any results. I did, however, accomplished to partition any USB or SD card with Partition Genius which is a bootable program.
Diode
Oh yeah, thanx for your recovery image, highly appreciate it.
L8Tr 4 Now.
no matter how many times i make the sdcard image, my nook refuses to boot off of it. Ive tried with Mac, WIndows, and Ubuntu and all failed. When i pop in the sdcard the nook just boots up normally...please someone help me. Ive been trying to get this to work since the second the first instructions were posted on nook devs
I had this problem as well. I ended up using a different USB MicroSD card reader and it worked. Try using a different MicroSD card, usually ones less than 2GB are safest, as they are not SDHC, and thus are compatible with more SD card readers...
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I had this problem as well. I ended up using a different USB MicroSD card reader and it worked. Try using a different MicroSD card, usually ones less than 2GB are safest, as they are not SDHC, and thus are compatible with more SD card readers...
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that might explain it lol..i've been using the 16gb that came with my galaxy s and using my phone as the sdreader
has one had success flashing the image through their phones or the nook itself?
Did you make the carding using winimage yet? For me, that was the method that worked the most consistently.
To check it, pop the card in your reader and see if there is a single ~40mb partition named nooter. That pretty much says the card is what it is supposed to be.
Unplug the nook, power it off by holding the power button until it turns off. put the card into the nook, plug it into your computer. In a little time, you should notice it saying about a new device connected, or some complaining about not being able to find the drivers. Let it go for about a minute after that and then remove the card and reboot the nook.
If it still boots normally with the card your just made, try using another card and see if that works. Also, if you have access to a mac, before you make the card with winimage (on the windows machine), use Disk utility to partition the card with 1 partition, free space.
It sounds kinda quirky, but it is how I got it to work.
I had to try 4 different computers before I found one that would work with either Winimage or Cygwin. Just keep trying different things and you'll eventually get it.
I originally tried using the Nook Color itself as the SD card reader, which did not work. Since the only USB card reader I had handy was not SDHC, I went down to a 2GB SD card, and it worked.
Help - Trouble w/Winimage
I'm using 64bit Vista and can open Winimage but when I try to install the 40Mb img file to the SD Card, all I get on the card is four files totaling about 11 Mb.
Could someone please post instruction for making an uSD image of Nooter 0.2
Thanks in advance
bobdude5 said:
that might explain it lol..i've been using the 16gb that came with my galaxy s and using my phone as the sdreader
has one had success flashing the image through their phones or the nook itself?
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[mbm] initially had trouble as well since he was using his Nook as a card reader. Generally only dedicated card readers will reliably work. I'll go add that to the wiki page.
pokey9000 said:
[mbm] initially had trouble as well since he was using his Nook as a card reader. Generally only dedicated card readers will reliably work. I'll go add that to the wiki page.
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did he end up using a card reader or did he get it to work?
My mistake was
Pokey9000 pointed out that I was making a simple mistake that stopped my card from working:
make sure your are writing to the whole disk, not a partition.
of = /dev/disk# (good)
of = /dev/disk#p# (bad)
I was adding the partition number to the end of my device string.
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did he end up using a card reader or did he get it to work?
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IIRC he switched to his laptop's SD reader with an adapter and got it working.
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IIRC he switched to his laptop's SD reader with an adapter and got it working.
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i just tried a 2gb sdcard..didnt work.. so its the reader. I hope a usb adapter will work
bobdude5 said:
i just tried a 2gb sdcard..didnt work.. so its the reader. I hope a usb adapter will work
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via the laptop SDcard slot, the image doesn't work, and I used a USB SDcard reader, it worked.
+1 request for help
docfreed said:
I'm using 64bit Vista and can open Winimage but when I try to install the 40Mb img file to the SD Card, all I get on the card is four files totaling about 11 Mb.
Could someone please post instruction for making an uSD image of Nooter 0.2
Thanks in advance
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+1 - despite searching and multiple efforts, I still am unable to get a useful microSD card to root the NC
docfreed said:
I'm using 64bit Vista and can open Winimage but when I try to install the 40Mb img file to the SD Card, all I get on the card is four files totaling about 11 Mb.
Could someone please post instruction for making an uSD image of Nooter 0.2
Thanks in advance
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drbowden said:
+1 - despite searching and multiple efforts, I still am unable to get a useful microSD card to root the NC
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That's OK!
After doing the winimage the microSD will have a 40MB partition with about 30MB free space and only about 7.5MB of files. It should work!
Finally Successful!
Finally got it done! Now on to loading useful apps and see how the NOOK holds up to work!
So excited to try and...
Grrr. both my sandisk and generic mini card readers suddenly all decide to fail/stop working and only found one of my 2gb sd cards after my move haha...
Murphy's law, such as life is..
-CC
Heya guys, Android n00b, but old time iphoney.
I to am having the same problem. I have been writing sd cards off multiple machines, bought more sd cards, etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! tx
Details:
Linux Mint 8 - Main
Windows 7 - tried and no success in results
Nook Color - Running firmware 1.0.1
8GB PNY HC uSD - image written sucessfully - Failed to boot in NC
2GB Sandisk uSD - image written sucessfully - Failed to boot in NC
1GB Kingston uSD - image written sucessfully - Failed to boot in NC
Latest nooter tried - auto-nooter-2.12.18.img - writes sucessfully - shows 2 partitions (NooterFiles,AutoNooter2)
Install notes:
I follow the directions to the letter. I have set up android sdk, and the other files needed from when this first became available. (I know they're not needed at the moment, but giving a history)
The image writes successfully. If I re-insert the card into my pc, then it reads as un-recognized. However, taking a leap of faith I put the card into the powered down NC. Plug in the usb cord, and it reboots just as normal.
Now after it boots. I swipe to open, and it goes into usb mode. Now my computer can see the 2 partitions listed through the nc.
Upon investigation I found that the partitions were not bootable. Aha! So I tried making them bootable. No success.
I'm at a loss, any help/points in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
so i either don't fully understand how images work in the SDCard itself (not on the nook), or i did something wrong and don't know how to fix the card, but at any rate, i managed to burn a 128meg image onto my 8gig sd card, didn't like the image, and now can't figure out how to get the card back to a regular 8gig card!
would love some direction. tried to search but must not be using right keywords.
didn't see any kind of format or clear option in the winimg program we're using.
thanks!
byproxy said:
so i either don't fully understand how images work in the SDCard itself (not on the nook), or i did something wrong and don't know how to fix the card, but at any rate, i managed to burn a 128meg image onto my 8gig sd card, didn't like the image, and now can't figure out how to get the card back to a regular 8gig card!
would love some direction. tried to search but must not be using right keywords.
didn't see any kind of format or clear option in the winimg program we're using.
thanks!
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On your Nook I believe you can go to Settings, Device Info, Mount the SD card if it's not mounted and then format it. It'll erase it and you'll have a blank SD card. If you're going to put a different image on the card I don't know if you even need to bother formatting, but I' not sure about that stuff.
does the nook format work differently than a computer format? because i burned a 128meg image onto an 8gig card and now even a computer format won't get the whole 8gigs back... just the 128 megs. it's like it's got invisible partitions on it or something.
Partition
Try EASEUS Partition Manager to change the partition size/format card.
byproxy said:
so i either don't fully understand how images work in the SDCard itself (not on the nook), or i did something wrong and don't know how to fix the card, but at any rate, i managed to burn a 128meg image onto my 8gig sd card, didn't like the image, and now can't figure out how to get the card back to a regular 8gig card!
would love some direction. tried to search but must not be using right keywords.
didn't see any kind of format or clear option in the winimg program we're using.
thanks!
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byproxy... here is the easy way...
1) Go and download "EASEUS Partition Master 7.0.1 Home Edition" --- just google it (the home edition is free and downloadable)
2) Put your microSD card into a card reader and plug into your computer
3) install EASEUS onto your computer and run the app
4) Once app is started, located your microSD card amongst the list of drives listed
5) select each one of the partitions on the SD card, and delete them individually
6) Once all partitions are deleted, make sure that you are still selecting the microSD card, and select the option to create partition (it may just say create)
7) Make sure you select FAT 32
8) Then select FORMAT
9) Lastly, click on APPLY and it will do all the things above. So in short you select all the actions that you want... and only in step 9 will it execute all those actions.
Please make sure that any changes you make are to the SD card and not any of your other drives. Last thing I would want is for you to accidentally format your Computer, NAS, or your non-SD card. =)
Enjoy...
sweet. exactly what i was looking for. thanks gents!!!
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byproxy... here is the easy way...
Enjoy...
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OK, but isn't it easier just to do it in the Nook or am I missing something here?
...worst case there's a low level SD card formatter from Panasonic (IIRC might be Toshiba) that will do a complete low level format and has recovered uSDs for people using them with Nintendo DS dev carts...
A Google search should turn it up, or a thread on a DS site which might have a link to it. It'll be a little windows program...
(I believe that windows and most devices just do sort of a quick format of the uSD, and so can't recover from some problems like re-partitioning of the card... so monkeying around with a partition editor and assigning the card to be one big partition then re-fromatting under windows or some other device MIGHT work as well...)
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oops, I see post #5 has the re-partitioning solution as well... another way to do it would be to backup an image of the card BEFORE burning something like autonooter on it then restore that original image to card once finished with whatever you were trying out... it's what I did when I tried autonooter w/my old 128MB card, in linux in my case a
dd if=/path/to/sd/card of=./somefilename
dd if=./autonooter.img of=/path/to/sd/card
then later
dd if=./somefilename of=/path/to/sd/card
sd card path under linux is likely to be /dev/memc<device ref characters?>
You should also be able to do this under windows with the utility recommended for windows users to use with the autonooter image, as I'm guessing that it's just a GUI wrapper and a windows compiled version of the dd utility...
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Varying opinions
BarryR1 said:
OK, but isn't it easier just to do it in the Nook or am I missing something here?
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Some believe that there are issues with formatting on Nook... depending which ROM you are running. The surefire and safe way, is to do it from a PC.
Nook should format, but may not partition correctly.
hvuong2 said:
Some believe that there are issues with formatting on Nook... depending which ROM you are running. The surefire and safe way, is to do it from a PC.
Nook should format, but may not partition correctly.
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No, the Nook will format the *device* and not a partition, so it always works. But you don't want to do it if you've installed NC or HC to eMMC.
If you're using Stock rooted, just boot without the card in the device, put it in, format. Done.
Or if you're on a real os just format the device... mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX
I formatted and re-imaged my nook today from 1.0.1 Rooted to stock.
I then manually updated to 2.1 for flash capability.
Now I want my Root back.
For some reason the NOOK won't boot off of the SD Card anymore, it just ignores it until it's booted and I can see the files on the SD card.
I've imaged my SD Card with multiple versions of CWM, shut off my nook, inserted the SD card and plugged in a USB cable to initiate the process.
Is it possible that it requires the "Nook" USB cable to start the boot off of SD Card process or will the cable for my Droid Incredible work as well?
It's the only thing i can think of at this point that is causing the problem.
I won't get my nook cable till tomorrow so i can't test it.
Thanks,
Turmith
You don't need the cable to boot off the sd card, all the cable does is turn the thing on.
You are probably not flashing your card right, it's not simply a matter of copying files over, there is data that needs to be put on the card that isn't part of the files you can see.
If you are using an old nooter or autonooter card, it's probably corrupted or something. You don't want to use those old rooting processes anyhow.
The rooting process is also different now than in previous releases. You should do some reading on how to make a bootable cwm card and what the new rooting process for 1.2 is.
Thanks,
I believe you are right, the sd card isn't being flashed correctly.
I tried following the instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027
Still got the issue where the nook would completely ignore the sdcard yet read it once it was booted.
So i tried formatting the sdcard with my Droid Incredible, then flashed it using windiskimger using the instructions provided in the link above.
Now when i try to boot off the card i get a blank black screen(never gets to "Read Forever" screen.
I have to remove SD Card, hold power button in(10 sec), release and then hold Power button in again(10 Sec) to get the nook to boot back into 1.2
I'm considering doing the 8 failed boot thing and seeing if it will restore 1.0.0 or something at this point.
Any suggestions?
Well that's progress ;-) at least it's trying to boot from the sd card now even if it's not succeeding.
are you using your droid as a uSD adapter for your computer, or do you have a dedicated uSD reader? that might be your problem. I'd try using a separate card reader.
You can get something like this basically anywhere for under $10. Try target/walmart/kmart/staples or like i said basically anywhere ;-)
I don't use windows for flashing but i've noticed some people saying they have luck with some programs for flashing more than others, try reading around, maybe you'll find an alternative to windiskimager that works better for you.
P.S. Formatting before flashing doesn't do anything at all. The flash should erase anything on the card and replace it exactly with the contents of the image you are flashing, regardless of whether it's freshly formatted or filled with 10 years of irreplaceable photographs
I'm not so sure it's the sdcard reader(which is internal to my Dell Laptop)
I switched from a 8gb sd card to a 2gb sd card(to make sure the SD card wasn't causing a problem) and pulled down a SD version of Nookie Froyo 2gb(to make sure CWM wasn't the issue either) just to see if i could get the thing to boot.
Same thing as occurred again.
It's become apparent that Winimage is either not doing it's job or I've somehow miss-configured the thing to not work correctly.
Winimage seems to only be writing one partition to the sdcard. In addition the Nook won't even attempt to boot off the sd card unless it's been formatted by either the nook or my droid prior to imaging. To me this indicates winimage isn't actually writing a image as much as it is copying files(and only the 1st partition at that).
Next step is to Uninstall Winimage, removing an left over configuration files and re-installing. If that doesn't work I'm going to try switching computers.
If that doesn't work then i'm going to look for a new Imaging program.
If anyone has any insight, it'd be welcome.
Well I can officially state my opinion that WinImage sucks...
I downloaded WinDiskImage and within 5 minutes I had my Nook 2.1 Rooted.
Thanks for your help.
I have a new 1.2.0 nook color that is preventing me from booting from sd. Tried multiple manual nooter images. The symptom I face is the system does not boot atall, no display, nothing when I have the microsd that is a boot image in the slot. If I take out the microsd, after a few attempts it powers on. With the sd in place, it just does not power up. Tried pressing power, connecting to pc, connecting to power from the wall, all behave the same. It looks like Barnes and Noble went out of their way to block using nook to its full potential . Anyone work around this issue? I have read some of the other posts already, but it seems this problem is happening with only the most recent versions out there.
I can use the same micro sd fine with regular files. if there is a bootable image it stops booting. It looks like the firmware is checking the sd and if there is a boot image there, just suspending the device. Any help will be appreciated. I want to keep the original os on the nook, but need the flexibility of having another android install on a sd.
Maybe an obvious question, have you tried the latest clockworkmod recovery (3.0.2.8) as a bootable image on your sd card? I would first try if you can boot into recovery from the sd card before adding manual nooter into the mix. Manual Nooter is *not* a bootable image.
If all of this is old news for you, ignore my post.
Good luck with your new Nook Color.
Tried multiple versions including 3.0.2.8.
On your recommendation, tried just a bootable disk. That did not work either. I just cannot turn it on. No display at all.. I can only boot it up again if I remove the micro sd card. I tried the 8 gb image first then trying 1 gb image file nookdev-clockwork-0.7 on an 8 gb card then copying the uImage and uRamdisk files. Any problems with this approach? I am fairly new to nook/android, but tech savvy..
Have you tried different models/sizes of uSD cards? How about trying different software, card readers, or PCs to write the IMGs to the cards? At the bare minimum those should be attempted before blaming the Nook.
here is why I thought it may be a nook issue. I may be wrong, but here is the logic. I created the boot disk with win32diskimager-RELEASE-0.3-r27-binary. I can put the same card into the nook when it is already booted and can read these files. When i do this, the nook is creating the standard folders in addition to these files. So I am assuming that the card, writing software, etc may not be the issue since the nook is able to read. Is this assumption wrong? I don't have other size cards handy. I will order some and try in a few days. Meanwhile, if anyone else is facing this issue, please weigh in. Experts, please suggest if I can try something else.
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On your recommendation, tried just a bootable disk. That did not work either. I just cannot turn it on. No display at all.. I can only boot it up again if I remove the micro sd card. I tried the 8 gb image first then trying 1 gb image file nookdev-clockwork-0.7 on an 8 gb card then copying the uImage and uRamdisk files. Any problems with this approach? I am fairly new to nook/android, but tech savvy..
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There is an image for a bootable SD with CWM and the correct uImage and uRamdisk files (thanks to DizzyDen). That may be your problem. The SC card you created while it has the correct file structure may not have the correct boot information.
Yeah it's been my experience that the NC is more particular about what it will boot off of vs. what it will read from in normal use. Plenty of posts about this but in general you'll find most Sandisks just work so if you pick one up or borrow a card, try to get a Sandisk just to be on the safe side. Since no one else seems to be having the problem, I suspect it's probably just a card the NC doesn't like or a mostly good card with a bad sector in the wrong place.
Thanks a lot! I used the 2gb image and was able to do it with a 2gb card and 2gb_clockwork-3.0.2.8.rar file.