[UTILITY] Nooter 0.2 - Root your NC

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Now that we have our own forum, time to stake a claim.

Nooter is an image that's loaded to a microSD card that can boot the Nook Color into a basic Linux environment. It automatically enables adb and turns off ro.secure on bootup, so no interaction is necessary to get root. Nooter sets up the USB port as a USB ethernet device (RNDIS) compatible with most modern OSes to allow SSH logins. From there the ROM can be dumped, partitions mounted and edited, and (hopefully someday) bricks debricked.

Get it here: Nooter 0.2.

Up-to-date directions at http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting

Changes


0.1

• first release

0.2

• replaced composite CDC USB device with RNDIS. This should "just work" under most XP and later Windows
• add ext2tools, dosfstools, util-linux for manual flash disk reformatting

Thanks to [mbm] for the root procedure, kernel config, and not sleeping; KCHASE731 for dissecting his NC for vital clues about the hardware config; and the rest of #nookdevs

If we've already rooted with Nooter v.01, and are using windows, is there any harm in rooting again with Nooter v.02?

Oh, and THANKS!

Originally Posted by jasoraso

If we've already rooted with Nooter v.01, and are using windows, is there any harm in rooting again with Nooter v.02?

Oh, and THANKS!

Both versions will write the file to turn on adb every time they boot, but will only patch the ramdisk if it hasn't been done already. There's no difference in the rooting procedure from 0.1 and 0.2, just the tools for people wanting to get a shell outside of Android.

Not working for me

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I must have done something wrong, but my NC just boots like normal, it never boots off the microSD card.

I am using Ubuntu Maverik.
I install the SD card while the nook is powered down and then I plug the USB cable to the computer, which automatically starts the NC, but it just boots in the OS like normal. after the NC boots, it will connect the sd card and flash memory like normal, and show the nooter02 sd contents.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: OK, figured it out, I used mmcblk0p1, instread of mmcblk0

Yesss !delivered

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Hi
I receive my NC today !. It's great nooter 0.2 is awesome for two points :
it gives root access and ...
It demonstrates that the overclock is possible, because the uImage/u-boot force the clock to 1Ghz and it's working well

cat cpuinfo_cur_freq 
1000000

About 997 bogomips

Cheers

Occip

Woot! Thanks for the revised tool to root from the Windoze world!

I'll have to give this a try when I get home...

So, if we used Nooter0.2, we are running 1Ghz?

Originally Posted by occip

It demonstrates that the overclock is possible, because the uImage/u-boot force the clock to 1Ghz and it's working well

I imagine that only while running off SDCard

Originally Posted by occip

Hi
I receive my NC today !. It's great nooter 0.2 is awesome for two points :
it gives root access and ...
It demonstrates that the overclock is possible, because the uImage/u-boot force the clock to 1Ghz and it's working well

cat cpuinfo_cur_freq 
1000000

About 997 bogomips

Cheers

Occip

Heh, I never even checked! I used the config for the Zoom3 sdk (OMAP3630 like the DX) for x-loader and u-boot and I guess that's where that gets set.

We should have BN's sources for both soon enough, and it will be a very easy change to the stock bootloader to get 1GHz in Android.

Originally Posted by ryoojin83

I must have done something wrong, but my NC just boots like normal, it never boots off the microSD card.

I am using Ubuntu Maverik.
I install the SD card while the nook is powered down and then I plug the USB cable to the computer, which automatically starts the NC, but it just boots in the OS like normal. after the NC boots, it will connect the sd card and flash memory like normal, and show the nooter02 sd contents.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: OK, figured it out, I used mmcblk0p1, instread of mmcblk0

Um, help? I'm following the directions and I'm familiar with the mmcblk0 from my multiple phones, but I don't understand how that applies here. I'm using Maverick and get the same thing you do...it just boots normally.

Thanks