[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] KriegerMetal:
A big thanks to the CM7 crew (Team B) for an A+ job!

Just in case this might help someone, this was my path using today's (02-05-2012) supplied SDBootPartition.zip and NTCM7_Beta.zip files

I did this using VMWare Workstation and a Knoppix Live DVD 6.71 from within Windows7 Pro x64 with the goal of keeping my Nook safely stock and simply booting into the CM7 world.

The MicroSD was a Kingston 16GB connected using a USB adapter.

-=SDCard Prep=-

1.) Boot Knoppix Live DVD

--1a.) If in VMWare you need to "connect" the SDCard to see it in Knoppix

2.) Open "start menu" in lower left corner

3.) Click "System Tools"

4.) Click "Disk Utility"

5.) Find your SD Card under Storage devices

6.) Delete all partitions (you want this for cm7 only right?)

7.) Click in volumes (unallocated space), then Create Partition

--7a.) Size: 50 MiB

--7b.) Type: FAT

--7c.) Name: boot

8.) Click in volumes (unallocated space), then Create Partition (System)

--8a.) Size: 2000 MiB

--8b.) Type: Ext4

--8c.) Name: system

--8d.) "Take ownership of filesystem": Off

9.) Click in volumes (unallocated space), then Create Partition (Data)

--9a.) Size: 2000 MiB

--9b.) Type: Ext4

--9c.) Name: data

--9d.) "Take ownership of filesystem": Off

10.) Click in volumes (unallocated space), then Create Partition (Storage)

--10a.) Size: Remaining space (I used a 16GB card so it was 12ish)

--10b.) Type: FAT

--10c.) Name: storage

--10d.) "Take ownership of filesystem": Off

11.) Minimize "Disk Utility"

-=SDCard CM7 Loading Part 1 (boot)=-

1.) Launch Terminal (msdos looking shortcut near start) and type: sudo file-roller

--1a.) ignore warnings in terminal and close terminal window

--1b.) open "KNOPPIX" folder in upper right corner and click on "boot" in left pane

2.) In Archive Manager: Open archive SDBootPartition.zip

3.) Extract or drag and drop the four files "boot.img", "flashing_boot.img", "MLO", and "u-boot.bin" to the 50MB "boot", make sure these are NOT in a folder

-=SDCard CM7 Loading Part 2 (system)=-

1.) In "KNOPPIX" explorer type window click "system" (2GB partition) in the left pane

2.) In Archive Manager: Open archive system.ext4.tar

3.) Navigate into "system" folder and select all files (app/bin etc...) and drag and drop or extract to "system" partition making sure all of these folders are at the top level of the drive and NOT in a subfolder

4.) When all files have been extracted to "system" close "Archive Manager"

-=Fix SDCard being mounted to "boot" partition=-

1.) Launch Terminal (msdos looking shortcut near start) and type: sudo leafpad

--1a.) close terminal window

2.) Click file, open and under "places" (left pane) click on the sda (in my case it was sda2) that has the folders from Part 2 above and open "etc\vold.fstab"

3.) Change the "sdcard" mount line to use partition 4 specifically (4 instead of auto)

FROM:

dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto auto /devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun1 /devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.0/mmc_host/mmc1

TO:

dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard 4 auto /devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun1 /devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.0/mmc_host/mmc1

--Note: the only thing changed in this file was that one "auto" to "4" (without quotes of course)

4.) Click File/Save

5.) Close leafpad and "Knoppix" explorer window if open

-=Finish up=-

1.) Restore "Disk Utility", find SDCard and click it

2.) Unmount all 4 partitions "boot", "system", "data", and "storage"

3.) Click Safe Removal, wait for removal

4.) Shutdown Knoppix (or in VMWare disconnect SDCard)

5.) If in Windows Eject or "Safely Remove" the SDCard from windows

-=Booting Nook=-

1.) Make sure nook is powered off

2.) Pop prepped SDCard in Nook and power on

3.) You should see a bright white screen with a brown packing box

4.) The screen should adjust brightness a bit then go blank for a touch (although if you tilt it or are in a dark room you can see the backlight is still on)

5.) Eventually you should see the "Droid" skate out and the nice Cyanogenmod boot logo

6.) Register with google account

So far Hardware acceleration of the video driver seems to be missing as seen from mx player.

For a first outing this is great and makes for a great way to keep the stock nook and boot into something nice with just a single SDCard. I've used it all day with no other issues and have installed a bunch of stuff from google market without a single problem so far.

Thanks again CM7 and the many other helpful people posting!