[Q] Unable to boot nook color 1.2.0 from sd card

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Hi Everyone,

First up I am a newbie who decided for various reasons to move away from iOS to Android. I purchased a new android phone and got the nook color 1.2.0. I have to admit that the primary reason for getting the nook color was after reading about the possibility of being free. That I read here:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/hin...id-tablet/7630

The nook arrived and despite multiple attempts I am unable to boot from either my 2GB or 4GB Sandisk cards.

I read this: http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/...ots-guide.html

Since autonooter is not yet out for 1.2.0 I had to go manual using clockworkmod recovery.

I followed the instructions by huskermania on youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmmmm8cBpe0&feature=fvsr

I downloaded 2gb and 4gb cwm from here: http://tsunade.net/nookdev/clockwork/0.1-ext4/

The files that I have in my sd card at the time of boot are:
http://mirror.cyanogenmod.com/get/up...ore-signed.zip
http://android.d3xt3r01.tk/cyanogen/...307-signed.zip
and of course the cwm -> mlo, u-boot.bin, uImage, uRamDisk.

When I boot the nook it boots normally but then I find the following directories created in the sd card:

B&N Downloads, LOST.DIR and My Files.

I even tried instructions here separately:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1054027

All with the same result. If any of you have any suggestions it will be much appreciated.

Thank you,
jynthn

I lucked out a little yesterday. Using evergreen's post here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1000957 I was able to boot from my sd card. I couldn't book from the 16G Transcend but from the 4GB Sandisk.

I just want to tell you all how cool cm7 is. I love it. I will wait for a bit before I venture out and flash the nook.

Once again, thanks!

Originally Posted by jynthn

I lucked out a little yesterday. Using evergreen's post here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1000957 I was able to boot from my sd card. I couldn't book from the 16G Transcend but from the 4GB Sandisk.

Sandisk is far more reliable than Transcend.

I just want to tell you all how cool cm7 is. I love it. I will wait for a bit before I venture out and flash the nook.

I must agree with you there. I screwed around with my auto-nootered NC, got rather annoyed with the hiccups, and tried CM7 on SD. Wow! Restored my emmc to stock, then upgraded to 2.1 and left it there for a few weeks, to see if I needed the stock software.

Nope.