(How To) CM7 Bootable SD

[LHC_52]

This is my first post. I've been obsessing on getting a little tablet for an upcoming trip overseas visiting in-laws. Instead of sitting in the corner smiling and nodding for a month while they all chatter in a foreign language that I don't understand well, I figured I'd get a little tablet load it up with all my woodworking and metalworking hobby stuff and sit quietly in the corner reading and viewing, only periodically looking up to acknowledge someone that says my name... Anyway, thanks to this forum and this thread in particular, I decided on a NC. My buddy is bringing one back from the US to me today and then I'll be happily skipping down rooting road.... I've got my SDcard, got the 1.1 installer burned on it, and copied over the other 2 files mentioned in the first post of this thread. We're all ready to go - just need the NC! Anyway, just wanted to say hi in this thread from a new convert, and I'll be back to post on any success/failure that happens. I am a complete novice on Android stuff and will probably have a few questions (well, maybe more than a few....) Thanks to everyone for a great resource. Looking forward to this ! Lew

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[ShutterPeep]

Great to have you here! Enjoy your NC!

[Schnoidz]

Welcome LHC_52. I'm a complete noob with this stuff and with the forums everything has been easy so far. I love my Nook!

[LHC_52]

ok - first question even though I do not have my new NC yet.

I am reading about these "blue dot" versions that are the newer NCs and they have partitions changed in the internal memory. What effect does this have on doing the SD card CM7 boot thing, if any.

As I understand it - and I could be wrong here as I'm brand new at all this - once you have the SDcard running with CM7 - EVERYTHING is going on on the SDcard and the internal flash memory of the nook is just sitting there unused. i.e. apps, videos, books, pdfs, etc. etc. are all on the SDcard with the android operating system as well. Is this correct?

I am not planning to buy B&N books at all - I mainly want this device to look at my collection of .pdfs, videos (once I figure out how to convert them to run on the NC) and surf the web. I suppose once I get all set up and going, I might start to think about "hey - I wonder if I can store some stuff on the internal memory" -but at the moment I'm not that interested in it.

Comments? Am I on the right track here, or do I "have" to do some hackery on the internal memory partition before I get the CM7 going on the SDcard.

Thanks !
Lew

[J515OP]

Hi Lew, welcome. You have it right, running a bootable SD card means the internal memory is just sitting there untouched so you won't need to worry about its partition structure until (if) you decide to mod the internal memory.

Check this out for formatting video (How-to) Using Handbrake to Convert Video for the Nook Color

JP

[LHC_52]

Hi Lew, welcome. You have it right, running a bootable SD card means the internal memory is just sitting there untouched so you won't need to worry about its partition structure until (if) you decide to mod the internal memory.

Check this out for formatting video (How-to) Using Handbrake to Convert Video for the Nook Color

JP

JP - Thanks for the confirmation on the internal/sdcard memory. I'm digging through the handbrake tips now. I only have a few weeks before we leave on this month long trip and I want to get loaded up with as much of my material as possible for the nook as we're not planning to take laptops etc. This forum is great but it's kind of like trying to drink water from a firehose sometimes, there's just so much info and jargon flooding out of the threads.

Cheers,
Lew

[J515OP]

Well we might not be able to control the flow of the hose but at least we can help you get it pointed in the right direction

[Libraridan]

All I get when I boot up off of the SD card is the "Loading" (with skulls) screen and then the CM Recovery menu. Am I doing some basic thing wrong?

[ShutterPeep]

All I get when I boot up off of the SD card is the "Loading" (with skulls) screen and then the CM Recovery menu. Am I doing some basic thing wrong?

That means you're not booting CM7. Your SD has a bootable Clockword Mod instead. Did you do the steps from the first post? You might have confused the generic sd card image with that of the bootable CWR image?

[LHC_52]

Well we might not be able to control the flow of the hose but at least we can help you get it pointed in the right direction

JP -

Well I picked up the NC from my buddy that brought it back from the US last night for me. Man, this thing looks even better than the pictures - nice and slim, and has enough weight to feel like it's sturdy and well built, but not too heavy (certainly not like the weight of the Xoom that I have checked out at the local shops from time to time.... but could not get myself to part with the 600bucks for....)

So, I have the NC plugged in and charging and I won't fire it up until the light goes green on the plug. In the meantime, I noticed that the greeting screen popped up shortly after I plugged it in to charge, but I just pressed the power button to let it go back off for charging. Figured it would charge faster with the screen off than to have the screen lit up.

Now then - some questions -

1 - In general, does the NC charge when it's fully powered off (like when you get ready to boot off the SD card) and if so, does it charge faster this way?

2 - I noticed on the back of the packing box that my box has a green dot on it, not a blue dot that I have seen referenced with regards to the 1 gig / 5 gig partition business I read about somewhere last night.

Does this mean that I have the old partition?
Does this mean that I have the earlier version of the B&N software?
If the answers to the above questions are yes, when I do fire it up, and either manually upgrade the B&N software to 1.2 or it happens automatically, does the partition change to the "new" reversed partition ? I sort of suspect not, but figured I should ask. The idea of having an extra 5 gig instead of 1 is desirable and I don't want to find that I have it, and then someday "poof" it's gone if I can prevent it from happening.

Got my SDcard all ready to go & gmail account set up, just a few hours and I'll be tinkering away.

Comments, suggestions, warnings etc. are welcome. Thanks a bunch!

Lew