Troubleshooting creating a dual-boot CM7 SD card

[Sue7M3]

I have a new Nook tablet. After a couple failed "Android boots," I repartitioned my Patriot 32GB microSD to 150. I feel like I followed the other instructions correctly. However, when I put the SD back in nook and turn it on, it boots up as a normal nook. It has never booted up any different. What am I doing wrong?
Also, I am not sure if it matters, but I had downloaded gapps-gb-20110307-signed in stead of gapps-gb-20110828-signed. Is this an issue? Thank you

The Nook Tablet is locked down and will not allow a custom ROM or any dual boot rooting to be run. Please read the threads in the Nook Tablet section for more info. I removed your email address as it is a bad ideal to post it as you did unless you like getting flooded with spam.

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[motorbreath]

I am in the same predicament you were in. I did, however, use MiniTool Position Wizard to enlarge the partition on my card. Before that, it would do everything you mentioned: i.e. unpack all files, then boot straight into official Nook software. After I used the MiniTool, it did take me as far as to a Cyanogen loading page after all files open and unpacked, then: nothing. Blank screen. It wasn't the CM7 boot logo, but a smaller Cyanogen logo, green in color. So I thought I'd run through the steps again - 6 times total, each time formatting the SD card with SDFormatter v2.0. But the last time I enlarged the partition, my PC was unable to recognize my card or other micro SD's that are known to be good, and still won't after several restarts. Does anyone have some insight as to how I can recover my lost drive? Or whatever is going on here?

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[garynook]

Successfully loaded CM7 on sd card. Thank you or the detailed instructions.

Gary

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[ElizaBethSparks]

That is crazy, because after several times of doing that with my card it also is no longer recognized!! It is in the nook, but not in my computer.

[beaujack]

Thanks. I have successfully installed CM7 on my SD for Nook Color, rooted at 1.4.1. However I have forgotten how to boot into the rooted Nook as an alternative to CM7. I know I did it yesterday, but I guess I'm having a senior moment.
OK, the big dummy just figured it out. Hold N key, power up, releas power up and choose.

[motorbreath]

I'm having another problem with my rooted SD Card. Once I get CM7 running on the NC, I go to settings, look under storage, and it shows that there is no SD card present, but I have additional storage under /mnt/emmc. However, I am unable to use the Kindle app, or any other app requiring an SD Card. I can't d/l anything while in the browser either. Can anyone tell me how to partition the card so it will show up as the actual SD card in the settings menu? Thanks so much.

[beaujack]

I had another 8 gig Sandisk so last Friday I installed CM7 quickly by enlarging the boot partition with EASUS. ZIp-a-doo-dah. I had 'no space' failure on my first installation, solved it by loadding ing GAPPS separately.