Boot to sd without usb ?

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sailerph

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Stock 1.42 internal and cm7 on sd card. In order to boot to the sd card, I must have the power cord connected . Is there a way around this ? This is a 16 gb tablet. Thanks
 

Solar.Plexus

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Stock 1.42 internal and cm7 on sd card. In order to boot to the sd card, I must have the power cord connected . Is there a way around this ? This is a 16 gb tablet. Thanks
At this time, the community has not figured out a way around this. Fortunately, I am one of the lucky ones that always boots from SD just fine.

Currently, there is an experiment being done to try understand this problem better. However, there seems to be a lack of participation in the project. If you would like to contribute, go here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1608683
 

Demetris

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Prepare an sdcard that you can boot into cwm.
Make sure adb shell can run onto Nook Tablet.
After you do that post here.
 

Demetris

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Lets try to fix that:
Boot cwm
1st do this:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0p2
So you backup your p2 partition.
Now flash mine, after you copy onto sdcard
dd if=/sdcard/mmcblk0p1.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
dd if=/sdcard/mmcblk0p2.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Reason i tell you to backup yours is because mine has cyanoboot.
When you want to go back to yours reverse the flashing.
Here is the download link:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/y8uobr
Please report if boot2sd is fixed after this.
Thanks

STRICTLY FOR 16GB NOOK TABLETS
 
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digixmax

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Jan 17, 2011
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Lets try to fix that:
Boot cwm
1st do this:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0p2
So you backup your p2 partition.
Now flash mine, after you copy onto sdcard
dd if=/sdcard/mmcblk0p1.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
dd if=/sdcard/mmcblk0p2.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Reason i tell you to backup yours is because mine has cyanoboot.
When you want to go back to yours reverse the flashing.
Here is the download link:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/y8uobr
Please report if boot2sd is fixed after this.
Thanks

STRICTLY FOR 16GB NOOK TABLETS
The above download link is dead; is there a new replacement link?

Thanks.
 

BoostedB18C

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This seems to work for me when I am stuck without a USB power cable and need to boot into CM.

1. Boot into stock Nook.
2. Click the SD card icon in the bottom left hand corner and select browse SD card.
3. Hold down power button and power off. Wait for the Nook to shutdown.
4. Hold down power button to power back on, try to hold down the power button for as short a time as possible when you do this.
5. Do not try any other button pressing during boot.

I am using a n2acards.com 16GB card downloaded from their site on a 8GB Nook tablet.

I think it's ridiculous that anyone would pay $20 for something that you can do for free with just reading into it a little. You could learn something in the process. Oh but that requires some work, and that's too hard...

If you want to donate your money, give it to the actual developers that are spending countless hours figuring all this out for us to use.

Sent from my NT running CM10
 
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spangeman

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Oct 26, 2008
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I think it's ridiculous that anyone would pay $20 for something that you can do for free with just reading into it a little. You could learn something in the process. Oh but that requires some work, and that's too hard...

If you want to donate your money, give it to the actual developers that are spending countless hours figuring all this out for us to use.

Sent from my NT running CM10

I apologise, I didn't realise this was a contentious issue, I have removed the post.