Nook wont boot off Sdcard..Boots normally

[bobdude5]

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

 

[hharte]

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...

 

[bobdude5]

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...

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?

 

[napdragon]

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.

 

[golfprorm]

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.

 

[hharte]

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.

 

[docfreed]

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

 

[pokey9000]

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?

[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.

 

[bobdude5]

[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.

did he end up using a card reader or did he get it to work?

 

[macndroid]

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.

 

[pokey9000]

did he end up using a card reader or did he get it to work?

IIRC he switched to his laptop's SD reader with an adapter and got it working.

 

[bobdude5]

IIRC he switched to his laptop's SD reader with an adapter and got it working.

i just tried a 2gb sdcard..didnt work.. so its the reader. I hope a usb adapter will work

 

[pudd]

i just tried a 2gb sdcard..didnt work.. so its the reader. I hope a usb adapter will work

via the laptop SDcard slot, the image doesn't work, and I used a USB SDcard reader, it worked.

 

[drbowden]

+1 request for help

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

+1 - despite searching and multiple efforts, I still am unable to get a useful microSD card to root the NC

 

[califrag]

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

+1 - despite searching and multiple efforts, I still am unable to get a useful microSD card to root the NC

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!

 

[drbowden]

Finally Successful!

Finally got it done! Now on to loading useful apps and see how the NOOK holds up to work!

 

[clockcycle]

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

 

[Latrocinium]

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.