[Nook Touch General] Kaishio:
The below post is actually a PM I sent to ros87, but it look like he hasn't been on the forums in a while, so I thought I'd ask the general populous. :) Besides, if I manage to get out of this one, then it might help someone else.

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To make a long story short, I have a NST that will not boot from the internal memory. I can boot from SD card images no problem (noogie, cwm, n2T-Recovery). When I boot from noogie, I can see the internal storage.

How I managed to get here:

- tried to follow the "Backup/Restore N2E" instructions from Windows, so used MiniTool Partition Wizard to delete the NST partitions

- THEN :( I realized the backup I took a long time ago wasn't a full device backup, but individual partition backups:

07/14/2011 09:09 PM 79,675,392 nook_backup_BOOT.img
07/14/2011 09:41 PM 251,641,856 nook_backup_CACHE.img
07/14/2011 09:58 PM 840,941,568 nook_backup_DATA.img
07/14/2011 09:30 PM 301,973,504 nook_backup_DISK.img
07/14/2011 09:22 PM 199,229,440 nook_backup_FACTORY.img
07/14/2011 09:04 PM 251,641,856 nook_backup_NOOK.img
07/14/2011 09:19 PM 16,777,216 nook_backup_ROM.img

I wasn't having any luck with Windows-based tools, so I switched to Linux. I've attempted to rebuild the partitions and copy over the data from my backups using dd:

dd if=/home/kenny/host/Nook\ Backup/nook_backup_BOOT.img of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M
dd if=/home/kenny/host/Nook\ Backup/nook_backup_ROM.img of=/dev/sdb2 bs=1M
dd if=/home/kenny/host/Nook\ Backup/nook_backup_FACTORY.img of=/dev/sdb3 bs=1M
dd if=/home/kenny/host/Nook\ Backup/nook_backup_DISK.img of=/dev/sdb5 bs=1M
dd if=/home/kenny/host/Nook\ Backup/nook_backup_NOOK.img of=/dev/sdb6 bs=1M
dd if=/home/kenny/host/Nook\ Backup/nook_backup_CACHE.img of=/dev/sdb7 bs=1M
dd if=/home/kenny/host/Nook\ Backup/nook_backup_DATA.img of=/dev/sdb8 bs=1M

The commands seemed to work and I do see the right kind of data in the partitions, but it still won't boot.

Here's a dump of the current state of things:

fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 1958 MB, 1958739968 bytes
128 heads, 32 sectors/track, 934 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4096 * 512 = 2097152 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000001

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 38 77808 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb2 39 46 16384 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb3 47 141 194560 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 142 934 1624064 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 142 285 294896 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 286 405 245744 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb7 406 525 245744 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8 526 926 821232 83 Linux

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df -h

/dev/sdb5 279M 183M 94M 67% /media/boot
/dev/sdb7 233M 6.2M 224M 3% /media/cache
/dev/sdb2 16M 119K 16M 1% /media/rom
/dev/sdb3 184M 106M 77M 58% /media/factory
/dev/sdb8 790M 20K 782M 1% /media/boot_
/dev/sdb6 237M 104M 133M 44% /media/NOOK
/dev/sdb1 75M 58M 18M 78% /media/boot__

I'm not entirely sure I got the partitions created in the format or order the nook wants. Luckily, since I do have the contents of the partitions, I do feel like I can get out of this mess, but just haven't managed to find the right sequence yet.

What I'd love to try is using a good, full backup that someone else has made, and then use my individual partition backups to rewrite the sections that are unique to my nook. Unfortunately, the torrent containing the one full backup that someone posted is long dead.

So, If there's anything anyone can think of that will help me revive this thing, I'd be ever so grateful. If you need more information, I'll get it.

Thanks!!!