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[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
There is something definitely wrong with your system that it is setting all the permissions to 000. I would try starting all over again with setting up your card. Use my revised image a few posts back so that it fixes the duplicate gapp issue. As part of verygreen's install script, it is supposed to let the install zip go ahead and set permissions as it calls for in the zip. (That is how I was able to fix the sdboot zip). Something may be corrupt in your verygreen script. I recommend starting over.

Edit: You know, since you had that problem with Sam's nightly and now this zip, maybe however you are downloading is corrupting the files. Try downloading on a different device.

Edit 2: Use the alternate CWM recovery to do a nandroid backup, then after a complete reinstall with a new image, etc, and everything is working right, you can restore just /data and see if things are still ok.
[Nook Color Android Development] votinh:
maybe you've missed my post as I said above that I did start over from scratch AND I did use Eyeballer CM9, not Sammie303.

Also, since I run CM9 from uSD, I have no intend flashing or installing CwMR, assumingly into eMMC, just verygreen's.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
No I did not miss that you had started from scratch, but I thought that that was when you started having problems. You said you were able to put my manual file and it worked. Now you say you can put nothing there (after the start from scratch). So that's why I suggested you start again, obviously something changed to have all permissions set to 000. And I was only suggesting that those problems might be due to corruption in downloading the files you needed to start from scratch.

And the alternate CWM recovery has been modified to only do things to the SD install, not emmc. You install it on SD as an alternate boot. It can backup and restore, clear cache, etc., all just for SD install users. The only thing it can't do is flash an ordinary nightly to SD. You still still need to use verygreen's script to do that.
[Nook Color Android Development] votinh:
I'll take all responsible for not getting it to work on me but just to clarify since you seem to mess up what I've said, allow me to repeat.

1. With the "manually way", it WORKED just fine, at least when I've tried on Sammie303 CM9.

2. With your "flashable" zip file, it DID NOT work on both Sammie303 and Eyeballer CM9.

I have not tried again the manually creating "sdboot" under /data on Eyeballer CM9 yet but I hope it will still be good.

As for the permission, by default, every folder under "root" are set too "000" (meaning no box (read/write/execute) checked)
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
I guess I did misunderstand. I thought you said you could not manually put anything in /etc/init.d and change its permissions and get it to "stick" (permissions change back after re-boot). Edit: I just re-read your posts again and you said you could not put anything in /data/sdboot (permissions change back here too). Strange.

Well, anyway, thanks for pointing out the issue as I was able to fix my zip so that others would not have permission problems with the 19mountsdboot file.
[Nook Color Android Development] gianmarco00:
Brand new to the color nook and found this.

So, I tried this with a 2gb microSD card I found following the directions in the beginning. The files were successfully place but when I turn on the Nook for the first time with the card, it completely ignores it and boots up like normal.

I've redone the card a couple times without success. Any ideas?

Please let me know what kind of information I need to include to help answer the above.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Tell me the names of the files listed when you put the card in your PC. There should only be a few.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color Android Development] doncaruana:
Did you use winimage? If so, try win32diskimager instead. Quite a few people (myself included) have found that winimaged sd cards behave like this and using win32diskimager instead does the trick.
[Nook Color Android Development] gianmarco00:
There's 4 folders:

.android_secure

B&N Downloads

LOST.DIR

My Files

Then there's 5 files:

cm_encore_full-253 (zip file)

MLO

u-boot.bin

uImage

uRamdisk

---------- Post added at 09:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:28 PM ----------

I used win32diskimager
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Well, your image appears to be burned correctly. The last four files are the ones you want there. The four folders were put there when it booted into the stock nook on emmc. It should have booted to the SD. Is this a brand new Nook Color? On another thread a user had trouble getting a dual boot working which uses a similar technic. He finally got it working by a bunch of key presses during boot. I will be back with a link.

Edit: Ok, back. Look at the last paragraph here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=23314349

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[Nook Color Android Development] gianmarco00:
Sounds good.

It is a brand new Nook. I checked the software version and it is 1.4.0 so, from what I've read, it should work. And yes, those folders were added after I put it into the Nook.

When I put the card in for the 1st time, am I just turning on the power button or should I be doing something else?
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
If you get it working, I have a link for a more up to date CM7 that was built on January 2. That 253 was built on November 16 and still had at least one bug. Let me know if you get it going and want the newer build.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color Android Development] gianmarco00:
I would like the newer build but still no luck in getting it to boot from the microSD.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Did you try the power presses from the quote?

Edit: If you can't get it to boot from the SD, you will not be able to even put CM7 on emmc. The bootable CWM SD card needs to boot to be able to flash CM7 to emmc.

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[Nook Color Android Development] gianmarco00:
Yes, no luck. It did a reset eventually on the Nook and still no go. Sigh.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
The only other thing I can suggest is to go to the thread I quoted and go to the first post and build a bootable CWM card to see if you can get any SD card to boot.

Edit: one other thing to try. Looking back on some posts, it says to be sure to run win32diskimager in "administrator" mode on your PC. Not sure why that makes a difference, but try it.

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[Nook Color Android Development] DizzyDen:
Also it has been important to ensure the disk image file you are using is stored locally and not on a network mapped drive.
[Nook Color Android Development] gianmarco00:
Hmm, how do I make sure I'm in administrator mode on Windows 7?

---------- Post added at 08:58 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:58 AM ----------

It is stored locally.
[Nook Color Android Development] DizzyDen:
Right click on the program and select Run as Administrator.
[Nook Color Android Development] gianmarco00:
:(

No luck.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Go ahead and try making the CWM SD and see if it boots. If it does, make a nandroid backup of your stock and the flash the zip to emmc. You will not regret it. If you do, you can always restore the stock.

Edit: The newer CM7 build is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=23198390
[Nook Color Android Development] Thibor69:
No recovery

I followed the OP to the letter. And Yes I can boot into CM7 now via sdcard. But I can not boot into recovery at all. I have Rom Manager installed but any time I try to boot into CWM I end up at some weird dual boot menu (not sure were that came from !!) if I try the Power button and home screen method at startup I get a line that says "

Loading Recovery...

" but then a Linux Penguin appears and a bunch of lines of code scroll by and Nook shuts off. If I turn it on and dont touch anything it will boot right into CM7 no problems. But I can not get into CWM recovery at all ??? Please advise ??

Thanks
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
There is no CWM recovery on SD installs. There is only the verygreen script recovery, which is what installed your CM7. That is what you are seeing scroll by when you go to recovery. ROM Manager does not work on SD installs. It tries to boot to CWM recovery to accomplish its tasks and there is no CWM recovery on SD. It just goes to the verygreen script again.

What do you want to do in CWM recovery? I have some options if I knew what you want to do.

Edit: That 'weird dual boot menu' is part of CM7. It is how you choose what you want to boot to. When the first boot screen comes up, hold n and a boot menu will come up. It lets you decide whether to boot to emmc or SD, normal or recovery.

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[Nook Color Android Development] Thibor69:
Thank you for your reply. I never knew CWM wouldn't work on the sd card in a nook. I guess I am just so use to my Phone (which runs CM7 and CM9) it has CWM on the sdcard, I assumed nook would also. OK, well Could you please answer just a couple more questions so I fully understand.

1) If I set that CM7 boot screen to load emmc and recovery will it load CWM then from the emmc ? or will it still load verygreens script ?

2) If CWM is not our recovery script ... what recovery script do we have ? I mean you mention that when I enter the "boot menu via holding the home key at start-up" It lets you decide whether to boot to emmc or SD, normal or recovery. But what recovery ?? I am so use to CWM I am just confused I guess. Sorry.

What I am trying to figure out is:

3) How do I make a nandroid backup I can't seem to get to CWM at all.

4) How do I install scripts (*.zip's) like boot animations or new kernels if I cant get to CWM to flash them ?

I am assuming you are going to tell me that we go to CWM ON the emmc to do thees things, but I dont see how to get there. If I try from Rom Manager it wont boot to it.

Once again I thank you for your time !
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
OK all of these questions have answers.

First to install zips with the SD, you make sure you have the zip named update- at the beginning of the file. Then put the file in the boot partition like you did the nightly (ROM). Then you boot to the SD recovery by holding n on a reboot then when the menu comes up, select SD and recovery (recovery on the SD is the script file you see scrolling by and installing your zips, not an interactive recovery like CWM) and hit n again. It will boot to the SD script recovery and install your zip. (edit: not every zip installs well using this method. See my info below to install zips using the alternate).

To get to recovery on emmc, do the same boot menu thing and select emmc and recovery. If you have a recovery installed on emmc, it will boot to it. I'm not sure stock has one. (If you want CWM recovery on emmc, go to ROM Manager on your SD and tell it to flash a new recovery. It will flash it to emmc, not SD. Do not use ROM Manager for anything else, because as you know when you tell it to go to recovery, it goes to the SD recovery.) If you do have one, whatever you choose for it to do, it will do it to emmc, not the SD install. So don't use it thinking it will backup or such things for your SD installation.

There is no way to do a nandroid backup of an SD install with the setup you have.

Do not dispair though, I have the solution for you. There is a CWM based recovery that has been modified to be used on SD installs. You can install it as an alternate recovery on your SD. Alternate recovery means it is the third choice on the boot menu after normal and recovery. This alternate recovery looks just like any other CWM recovery but it does things to the SD instead of emmc.

You can learn about this alternate recovery by reading my post below. Heed the warning about trying to flash nightlies (ROMs) with this recovery.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=22719241
[Nook Color Android Development] Thibor69:
Ok got it. ( I think) hehe I will try it now. I am going to install that modded CWM and only use it for backups. I will post my results here shortly.

Also .... if and when I do want to update CM7 nightly could you briefly tell me what to do with it ? Just drop it on the sdcard and boot normal ?

Thanks !
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
No, put it in the boot partition of the SD card. (take it out and put in PC, copy file, then put back in nook). Then boot to SD recovery. The installer script will take care of it.
[Nook Color Android Development] Thibor69:
Ok that worked like a charm ! I did a nandroid backup just fine, and I understand it put the backup on the sdcard ... but was that backup of the emmc or of the sdcard ?. If it was of the eMMC how do I nandroid backup SDcard. And/or vice versa ?

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Question #2

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My next question is, to install nightlies, you say to put the nightly on the boot partition of the sdcard. I got that. You then mention boot to SD recovery, are you talking about on the boot menu (hold "n") chose: #2 and #2 ??

Boot Device:

1 = eMMC

2 = SD <------------This one ?

Boot Mode:

1 = Normal

2 = Recovery <------This one ?

3 = Alternative

Thank you once again for your patience and help.

Peace

PS. I didn't even realize this till now. I can actually boot into CM7 or Stock Nook 1.4.2 ! If I......

Boot device :eMMC

Boot mode: Normal (uImage.uRamdisk)

It will boot into Stock 1.4.2

Boot Device: SD

Boot Mode: Normal

It will boot into CM7
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
If you did the alternate boot CWM, it made a nandroid backup of the CM7 SD installation. It put it on the SD card under /clockworkmod/backup.

Question 2, you have it right.

Now as far as doing a nandroid backup of emmc, it depends on whether you have CWM installed on emmc. I told you how to put it on emmc using ROM Manager in my earlier post. To get to the new CWM on emmc, use boot menu and choose 1 and 2 on your diagram. It will backup your stock on emmc to your SD card. But there is a problem. You need to use a different SD card because it will try to put the backup files on your boot partition of the CM7 SD and the boot partition is very small. So you need another SD card. At least 1GB in size.

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[Nook Color Android Development] Thibor69:
Just in case this helps anyone.... here is what I have found out via boot manager:

Keep in mind I installed stock 1.4.2 onto eMMC first. Booted then registered device. Then I installed CM7 via verygreens method, and finally installed the moddified CWM noted bellow.

These combination's bellow are what will happen with each setting.

Power ON and HOLD the U button.

=======================================

CM Boot Menu

(A) Boot Device....: 1 = eMMC

(B) Boot Device....: 2 = SD

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(C) Boot Mode......: 1 = NORMAL

(D) Boot Mode......: 2 = RECOVERY

(E) Boot Mode......: 3 = ALTERNATIVE

========================================================

Here are the results of each senerio *if* you have installed the modified CWM onto SD from this post http://xdaforums.com/show...php?p=22719241 and if you have CWM on your eMMC also.

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A + C = STOCK NOOK

A + D = CWM Located on eMMC

A + E = ( install a new kernal ? ) <----- help with answer ?

B + C = RUN CM7 OFF SD

B + D = USE FOR NEW NIGHTLIES (place on sd boot partition)

B + E = CWM ON SD-CARD (only use for nandroid backups)

=======================================================

If you see any mistakes PLEASE let me know and I will fix them right away.

I hope this helps at lest 1 other person.

Peace
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Yes that's the whole purpose of having the boot menu. LOL.

But I don't see that you said you backed up emmc. You can easily boot to emmc with the small partition, it's just not big enough to hold an entire emmc backup. Oh wait, you think you backed up the whole thing, but what happened is it ran out of room and stopped. I did that once and it was just a partial backup. It gives no error warning and just stops when the disk is full. If you take it out of the nook and put it in the PC, you will see it is full and if you look in the folder you will see it does not even have a data.img file in the folder. Delete that clockworkmod folder since it is of no use and is just taking up space in your boot partition. Put another SD in and backup and you will see it is much larger.

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[Nook Color Android Development] Thibor69:
Ok so DELETE ClockWorkMod folder on eMMC and put in a new SD or DELETE ClockWorkMod from SD and put in a new SD and run CWM off eMMC ?

Cheers
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Put the SD in your PC and delete the clockworkmod folder from there.

Do you realize that when you put the SD in your PC, you are looking at the boot partition of the SD not the storage partition? Look at the size in Windows Explorer. You will see it is only a little over 100MB. That's why there was not room for the full backup files. A full backup takes over 500MB.

The storage partition is partition 4 on the SD and the PC cannot see it when the card is directly plugged in to the PC. It normally can only be accessed within CM7. But you can get the PC to see that partition if you plug in your USB cable to the nook and the PC.

Put the CM7 SD back in the nook and boot to the boot menu and go to emmc/recovery. Once in emmc CWM, then take the CM7 SD out of the nook and put a different one in that is just an ordinary SD, at least 1GB. Then you can select backup in CWM and it will backup emmc and place the backup files on the new SD. It should take up at least 500MB of the card. If you ever want to restore emmc, go through the same steps, but after putting in the ordinary SD, select restore. Save the SD for future use. More backups or whatever.

To go back to CM7, put the CM7 SD back in and boot. If you leave the ordinary SD in and boot, you will end up in stock.

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[Nook Color Android Development] Thibor69:
OK I got that all now. I was wondering why we cant backup via CWM inside CM7 since CM7 can see the other partition's. ?
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Because when you are in CWM you are not inside CM7. You just have the SD in, but are not booted to it. CWM, Alternate CWM, CM7, and emmc (stock) are all different things. That's why you have to select via the boot menu which you want to boot to.

CWM is just like your PC. All it can see is partition 1, the boot partition.
[Nook Color Android Development] Thibor69:
OK ... I understand what your saying. I was just wondering tho because when I boot to SD and Alternitive, option A and E from my chart above. I get into CWM and it says I have 6 gigs free and then continues to backup. God why can't I understand this. I feel like a f00l. But I am learning.

This is my SD atm with one backup.

THanks again
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Yes ALTERNATE CWM can see your storage partition, it has been modified to do that. Thats why it works on the SD backup. But CWM on emmc (which only backs up emmc) cannot see it. It just sees the small boot partition. They are two separate CWMs. Did you notice the version numbers are different?
[Nook Color Android Development] Thibor69:
OK .... got it. So I can backup my CM7 just not eMMC ?

(Dont hit me .... :rolleyes:)

Peace
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
You can backup CM7 with the alternate CWM to the CM7 SD. You can backup emmc using the emmc CWM and a different SD as I explained in my earlier post. Go back and read it.
[Nook Color Android Development] Thibor69:
Finally got it in my thick head. See it has to go through all this hair first before it gets inside my knocker. :D

Cheers
[Nook Color Android Development] topcaser:
Hi,

how can i wipe my Android system, when Iam using CM9 on SD-Card? Is it necessary to format the entire SD card?

Unfortunately my Titanium Backup resides on the SD-card and I can not copy it to my PC since the partition is not seen there.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
If your CM9 is still working, connect your usb cable to the PC and you should see your sdcard media partition in Windows Explorer in the left pane near the bottom. You can then copy your tibu files to your PC. Then you can format the card and start over.

Another option is to put the Alternate Clockworkmod recovery on the SD so you can backup and wipe things on the card without formatting the whole card. Look at my tips post here to learn how to get it and use it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25354258
[Nook Color Android Development] topcaser:
OK, thanks for your help. I have got the alternate recovery already installed. I thought, that wiping would work on emmc. Thanks for clearing things up.

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[Nook Color Android Development] Serial_Noob:
If your Nook and your PC are on the same WiFi, you can copy from any partition to the PC, without cables. Use FTPDroid or a similar utility, and set anonymous home (on FTPDroid -- other apps may differ in the specifics) to /. If you're on windows, you can ftp to the Nooks IP address with windows explorer. I believe the same method will work in Linux or Mac OS, but I haven't tried it. Any ftp client program will work with either OS, though.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Thank you for sharing this. I use Wifi Explorer for many things, but the added feature of being able to explore root via wifi that FTPdroid brings is very handy.

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[Nook Color Android Development] eltrkbrd:
generic-sdcard.img vs unooter

What's the difference between using generic-sdcard.img vs unooter?

I'm installing CM7.2 MiRaGe - KANG build of CyanogenMod to MicroSD.

Also, does this work with V6 Supercharger?

Infinite gratitude to all for making this possible! :)
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
The SD card image prepares your SD card for installing the CM ROM to SD. I think unooter is just to root your stock Nook. And I think V6 works on CM7. I know it works on CM9.

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[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
A pending change that the CM team is implementing will adversely affect verygreen SD users. They are changing the naming standard for new nightlies. They will no longer be naming the files starting with update-. That means the existing install script will no longer recognize or install a new nightly when it is copied to the boot partition. Users must rename the file to start with update- if they want the existing install script to work.

In order to assist users I have modified the install script to now also install nightlies if they begin with the new standard (cm-). (I also added to the script the ability to recognize the new prefix (diff_) that is used by the new Goo Manager program to make an incremental update to an existing ROM.) I have attached new rev2 files to my post here.
[Nook Color Android Development] ganovim:
update-softkey-240dpi-5-06-Rev16.zip

That worked great accept now the new sd recovery cannot install the

update-softkey-240dpi-5-06-Rev16.zip

I have even renamed that to cm9 etc but to no evail

The above update is important to those of us who need bigger fonts and icons
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
It worked fine for me. You should not have to rename it. Did you try it by itself after the main zip was installed? Can you explain what it says as the install script goes by. Does it end saying it found no zip?

Edit: I just tested it again with both cm-9-encore-20120512-0700-unofficial.zip and update-softkey-240dpi-5-06-Rev16.zip in the boot partition together and it installed both properly. (Are you sure you have a good copy of the update-softkey... ?)