My rooting experience...

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First - thanks for all the contributors to this forum!! Hence the reason I decided to pay it forward...

My environment:
- Windows 7 64 bit, pro

I wanted to post my experience with the issues I had. I'm not going to bore you with another step-by-step guide but I am going to touch on a few key points...

1) Make sure you prepare your SD card! What I had to do was delete all the partitions on the drive, you can use diskpart to do this. Don't format, or create any partitions on the drive, when you copy the image this will do it for you. The mistake i made was trying to create the partition and format the drive... don't do this!! Below are steps on how to delete the partitions in Windows. If you're using linux you probably know how to do this in your environment...

• Start > Run > cmd
• Type in: diskpart
• A new box will open... type in "list disk" (without quotes)
• Find the number of your your SD card disk and type in "select disk #" replacing # with the number you found and without quotes
• For each partition do the following: "list partition" then "select partition #" then "delete partition"
• Do this for every partition
• Then try winimage or cygwin, the latter was successful for me, I tried both

2) If your device boots up normally after putting in the SD card to root it, your SD card is not prepared properly. It could be a bunch of things... but at this point focus on fixing the image... not the ADB drivers.

- If it is successful your nook will appear completely off (no noise or display)... so you have to watch the notifications on your PC. I left it on for about 3 minutes then turned it off and took out the SD card.

Hope this helps, just a few lessons learned.

WinImage won't see it after this

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WinImage is not able to see the SD card once the partition has been removed. The SD card is now useless since Windows can't see it either. Thanks for turning a 4GB SD card into trash for me.

Originally Posted by samofny

WinImage is not able to see the SD card once the partition has been removed. The SD card is now useless since Windows can't see it either. Thanks for turning a 4GB SD card into trash for me.

Cut the drama, it's not trashed. Partition and format the card with the built-in Windows software and try again.

Originally Posted by chuffykow

Cut the drama, it's not trashed. Partition and format the card with the built-in Windows software and try again.

someone posted this and it worked for me.
google HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool and reformat your sdcard.

Originally Posted by samofny

WinImage is not able to see the SD card once the partition has been removed. The SD card is now useless since Windows can't see it either. Thanks for turning a 4GB SD card into trash for me.

(1) It's not trashed.

(2) Even if it was trashed (and it isn't), how much of your lifes savings did that 4G card cost you?

(3) I'd ask the original poster for a refund RIGHT FRIGGIN' NOW! How much was it that they charged you for their advice?

Good grief. Some people.

I been working on rooting the NC for two days now, and for some reason i it just doesn't work for me. I have followed all steps at nookdevs. When i start up the NC with the imaged sd card it boots as normal. i tired with linux, and windows 7. Below is what i am working with. Any help is appreciated.

OS: Ubuntu 10.10
NC#: 2004***********2009

Linux TERMINAL:
padawan@Cerebro:~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/padawan/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=padawan)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/4593-120A type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=119,s hortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush)
padawan@Cerebro:~$ cd ~/Desktop/Stuffus/nooter
padawan@Cerebro:~/Desktop/Stuffus/nooter$ sudo umount /dev/sdb1
padawan@Cerebro:~/Desktop/Stuffus/nooter$ sudo dd if=nooter_sdcard_40mb.img of=/dev/sdb1
80326+0 records in
80326+0 records out
41126912 bytes (41 MB) copied, 17.2821 s, 2.4 MB/s
padawan@Cerebro:~/Desktop/Stuffus/nooter$

Originally Posted by vmarcano718

I been working on rooting the NC for two days now, and for some reason i it just doesn't work for me. I have followed all steps at nookdevs. When i start up the NC with the imaged sd card it boots as normal. i tired with linux, and windows 7. Below is what i am working with. Any help is appreciated.

OS: Ubuntu 10.10
NC#: 2004***********2009

Linux TERMINAL:
padawan@Cerebro:~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/padawan/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=padawan)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/4593-120A type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=119,s hortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush)
padawan@Cerebro:~$ cd ~/Desktop/Stuffus/nooter
padawan@Cerebro:~/Desktop/Stuffus/nooter$ sudo umount /dev/sdb1
padawan@Cerebro:~/Desktop/Stuffus/nooter$ sudo dd if=nooter_sdcard_40mb.img of=/dev/sdb1
80326+0 records in
80326+0 records out
41126912 bytes (41 MB) copied, 17.2821 s, 2.4 MB/s
padawan@Cerebro:~/Desktop/Stuffus/nooter$

I got it. I used Win image. don't know why dd command didnt work though. if anyone has an idea feel free to mention it for future reference. ANyone who is having trouble might just want to try win image method.

Originally Posted by samofny

WinImage is not able to see the SD card once the partition has been removed. The SD card is now useless since Windows can't see it either. Thanks for turning a 4GB SD card into trash for me.

Its definitely not trashed.... just create a new partition.

Cygwin worked well for me... give it a shot!

Originally Posted by vmarcano718

padawan@Cerebro:~/Desktop/Stuffus/nooter$ sudo umount /dev/sdb1
padawan@Cerebro:~/Desktop/Stuffus/nooter$ sudo dd if=nooter_sdcard_40mb.img of=/dev/sdb1
80326+0 records in
80326+0 records out
41126912 bytes (41 MB) copied, 17.2821 s, 2.4 MB/s
padawan@Cerebro:~/Desktop/Stuffus/nooter$

You were SOOOOO close...

The problem was that you wrote the image to the partition and not to the device.

Here is the correct command:

sudo dd if=nooter_sdcard_40mb.img of=/dev/sdb

The image is a complete disk image, not a partition image so it must be written to the raw device /dev/sdb in your case and not the partition /dec/sdb1.

Note: /dev/sdb (leave the 1 which indicates the partion off!)

Originally Posted by johnopsec

You were SOOOOO close...

The problem was that you wrote the image to the partition and not to the device.

Here is the correct command:

sudo dd if=nooter_sdcard_40mb.img of=/dev/sdb

The image is a complete disk image, not a partition image so it must be written to the raw device /dev/sdb in your case and not the partition /dec/sdb1.

Note: /dev/sdb (leave the 1 which indicates the partion off!)

Yea, i tired that too.I received a 'doesn't exist' eroror. Prob. entered it wrong too. thanx for the advice.