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[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You are right, Cyanoboot is the bootloader and is different than CWM. Most of the time I have reboot issues to emmc is coming from an SD mounted CWM. For some reason when you tell it to reboot, the device thinks there is no SD installed (you can tell that by Cyanoboot showing E0 in the upper left corner, and when it does boot to the rom on emmc, there is no sdcard mounted.) It looks like for now CM10 has that same issue. You are also right CM7 and CM9 did not have that issue.

That flag you are talking about is in /rom and Cyanoboot looks for it when it loads. Look in the Cyanoboot thread to learn about it. But if the nook thinks there is no SD present, it cannot boot to it.
[Nook Color General] Donn240:
Installation problem

I have downloaded the generic-sd image and written to my 16gig sd card with win32imagewriter. I downloaded CM10 and the jb gapps files. When I try to copy the CM10 zip file to the card I get an error message saying I need 40mb more room.

What am I doing wrong?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Are you sure you used my rev 5 of the generic SD image? By the symptoms it sounds like you used an older version.
[Nook Color General] Donn240:
Installation problem

Yes, I used the Rev5 file attached to the bottom of your OP.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You may have had the old version on there before you burned it. You need to take the SD out of the PC once it is burned and reinsert so the PC knows it has the new version on it. I just modified my instructions above to indicate that should be done.
[Nook Color General] Donn240:
Thanks for your help. I deleted all the older files related to this from my PC and downloaded fresh files, re-burned the image, and copied the CM and app files to the SDcard. Everything seems to be working as it should.

Thanks for the great work!

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now it loads to the setup screen and gives me the message that setup has stopped.

QUOTE=Donn240;33137031]Thanks for your help. I deleted all the older files related to this from my PC and downloaded fresh files, re-burned the image, and copied the CM and app files to the SDcard. Everything seems to be working as it should.

Thanks for the great work![/QUOTE]
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You mean the Google app setup screen? It boots ok to CM10, just does not complete the setup? Not sure how to help you with that. Did you setup wifi as part of setup, or did you not get that far?

And you used the JB version of gapps? Should start with gapps-jb...
[Nook Color General] Donn240:
Used jb apps. It loaded CM10, gave a massage that google framework was not found, did not get to wifi setup.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
The only thing I can think of is a bad download of the JB gapps and they only partly installed. Did the installer zip get removed from the boot partition?
[Nook Color General] Donn240:
Thanks for your patience in helping me. After all that, I deleted all the related files from my PC and downloaded fresh image, CM10 and apps files.

I wrote the image to the sdcard and copied the other two over. Lo and behold, everything worked perfectly.

Thanks again for your help.
[Nook Color General] beckerzz:
Awesome!

Hi, noob here.

Had a hard time figuring out the instructions at first, namely finding the correct image file. It took me several tries but I finally got the penguin!

Thanks a lot :good:
[Nook Color General] theandies:
I am getting this windows message when trying to burn the image to my SD.

I've tried it on a clean boot of Windows with nothing running but WinImage.

I installed and run WinImage in administrator.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
No, that is not correct. You do drag it into the SD card without unzipping, but when you boot you must use the boot menu to boot to SD recovery. Just after the first tiny flash on boot, hold the n key until the boot menu comes up. Select SD recovery and finish booting. The penguin will take over again and install gapps. Then you can boot normally.

EDIT: For others reading this post, you only hold the n key after the first ROM has been installed successfully and you either want to update the ROM or install gapps.

Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
[Nook Color General] jbenes:
Hi. I have followed your instructions exactly but I cannot seem to get the SD card to work.

I have download your rev. 5 image and successfully unzipped and burned it via WinRAR and WinImage. Next, I copied the latest CM10 nightly along with the latest signed version of gapps (both with the correct file names).

I then ejected the SD card and inserted into my Nook (which was powered off). I then turned the Nook on like how I regularly turn it on. It continued to boot up just like normal.

I read the previous post, and so next I turned the Nook back off, reburned the image and added the files back, then re-inserted the card. This time, as soon as the silver N logo flashed on the screen, I held the N button on my Nook device. It continued to boot up like normal.

Why isn't my SD card doing anything?

Thanks for your help!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It is not booting because it is not quite burned properly. Look at my tips thread linked in my signature and item A9.

And the very first time you boot it (and every time until the first ROM gets installed) you just let it go without holding the n key.

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[Nook Color General] chrishh44:
Worked perfectly. Thanks!
[Nook Color General] GeekDad66:
gapps version

I am going to try this installation but was wondering if the 4.1.1 gapps (20121011) is still the recommended one vs. the new 4.2.1 (20121212) release from Wednesday.

-Thanks-
[Nook Color General] hwong96:
You need to use the 20121011 gapps. The newer version is not compatible with cm10 encore.
[Nook Color General] RussellSteenhoff:
Same here with me... boot disk 115mb with 107mb free but cm is 154 mb and gapps is 90 so that equals 244...help :(

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Same here with me... boot disk 115mb with 107mb free but cm is 154 mb and gapps is 90 so that equals 244...help :(
[Nook Color General] hwong96:
Go to the first post in this thread and download the larger Rev5 zip.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
As I said to someone else just a few posts ago, either you did not start with my rev 5 card from the first post of this thread, or you are using a Mac and need to empty the trash. With CM10 you MUST use my rev 5 image file. It is not only the file size, but also the installer is wrong in older versions of the image.

Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
[Nook Color General] RussellSteenhoff:
Got it was using old version..thanks
[Nook Color General] rgazzara:
Can the SD CM10 be dual booted?

Hi,

I am currently using a dual boot SD card for CM7 on my Nook Color.

Can this SD card boot for CM10 be dual booted using a similar method?

I prefer this so that I can boot either into CM10 or the native Nook Color when desired.

Thanks.
[Nook Color General] hwong96:
The image for cm10 is larger than cm7. Go to the first post of this thread and download the file .....larger Rev5.zip. It has the Cyanoboot dual boot menu.
[Nook Color General] rgazzara:
Thanks all.

Works as advertised.

Much appreciated.
[Nook Color General] rgazzara:
Hi, I have a question for the group.

I installed CM10 on my Nook Color using an 8GB microSD card. When I view storage, I sse that I have 4.77GB total space on the SD card.

If I installed CM10 using a larger microSD card, say 16GB or 32GB, would storage report more space or is 4.77GB total space on the SD card the largest I can get regardless of the size of the microSD card that CM10 is installed on?

Thanks for your responses.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It will increase the size of available storage based on the full size of the card. It uses about 3 or 4GB for itself and lets you have the rest for sdcard.

Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
[Nook Color General] rgazzara:
So if I install CM10 on a 32GB microSD card for my Nook Color, I would have around 28GB free space on the SD card for apps and media content that will be available for access on my Nook Color when it is running CM10?

Thanks.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes for media and app use. But the apps themselves are stored in /data which is part of the 3 or 4GB overhead reserved.

Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
[Nook Color General] hikersc:
I recently installed a CM10 Nightly to an SD using the original instructions and all is working great...thanks leapinlar. The Cyanoboot menu is great and I like the way that it goes to CM10 if no key is pressed as I am stock on EMMC but rarely go there. I want to do the same on my wife's Nook Color but would like for it to boot up to stock if no key is pressed. I read through fattires information on Cyanoboot and thought I understood that putting a u-boot.device file with a "1" (without quotes) in the boot partition on the SD card (with the u-boot.bin file) then it would come up on stock (EMMC) but it does not work. I also tried the u-boot.device with a "0" but it still goes to CM10. What did I miss?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You do not put that file on the boot partition. You boot to your ROM and find the /rom folder and put it there.

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[Nook Color General] hikersc:
Thank you sir. That was exactly what I was missing.
[Nook Color General] leecallen:
Help! nook won't boot from SD card

I have done this at least a dozen times, I swear I am doing it right, but when I boot my Nook from my SD card, nothing happens - it boots normally, into the Nook OS.

Here is exactly what I have and am doing:

Nook Color, model BNTVF250, software version 1.4.3

SanDisk microSDHC card - 8GB, class 4

place uSD card in an USB reader, put it in my Ubuntu system

auto-mounts as /dev/sdc1 in /media/boot

# umount /media/boot

# dd if=generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-larger-Rev5.img of=/dev/sdc bs=1k

remove & re-insert USB/microSD card, Ubuntu auto-mounts /dev/sdc1 as /media/boot

at that point 4 files are visible: MLO, u-boot.bin, uImage, uRamdisk

# cp cm-10-20121216-NIGHTLY-encore.zip /media/boot/

# sync

# umount /media/boot

Nook is "completely" powered off

remove microSD card from USB reader and place in Nook

power on Nook

it powers on normally -- to the Nook OS

Nook can see the SD card - it says 145MB free of 312MB

I can place the uSD card in the USB reader and insert it in another PC and see the 5 files.

I have tried using the Windows (win32diskimager) procedure -- from a different PC, as Administrator -- with the same results.

I have also tried generic-sdcard-v1.3-ICS-large-Rev3.img with the same results.

I have even tried other (not SanDisk) uSD cards.

I have some experience with Linux and Android so I think I have the mechanics right.

Please help, this is supposed to be a Christmas present for my son.
[Nook Color General] hwong96:
This forum is for Nook Color model BNRV200 whose procedures will not work on BNTVF250.. You have a Nook Tablet which there is a separate forum and procedures.
[Nook Color General] leecallen:
well, that explains a lot. Thank you.
[Nook Color General] acesrhigh:
I used this guide to root my daughter's nook color so could use google play apps, but since the SD card is set as the boot partition, is there any way for me to add files to the media folder of the "storage" partition of the SD card on my computer? I'm waiting for an official NC cord so I can connect it to my computer, but for now the one I has only slow-charges it. I would like to be able to put her music and a couple of her movies on there for her.I did browse around trying to find an answer, but I'm not too positive what I'm looking for. The other tablet I rooted for a buddy was a Nook Tablet and I flashed it to EMMC so I was easily able to unmount the card and use it as a storage device.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You can see the partition if you connect the nook to the PC with the USB cable. You can use a standard microUSB cable for transferring. It works fine for that.
[Nook Color General] acesrhigh:
Thank you for the quick reply. I did get that part, but at the moment, the data cable I'm using doesn't see the nook on the PC. It is an off-brand as the original data cable didn't come with it (bought it second-hand). Was hoping there was something else that could be used. I know for certain things with hidden partitions there are third party programs for the PC that will allow you to use a special file manager to access those parts, was hoping there would be something I similar I could use for this.

Thanks for the guide and your time.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
No, I am sure it is not the cable. Any microUSB should work. Did you go to settings and set up MTP? Go to settings, storage, menu, USB computer connections and check off MTP. Then you sdcard partition will show as a portable device.
[Nook Color General] acesrhigh:
Unfortunately it was already checked, I switched it to mass storage and it still didn't recognize it, so I switched it back. I notice that the little lightning symbol comes up on the battery, so the computer is slowly charging it, but still not recognizing that anything is attached.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
And on MTP, you are looking for portable devices in windows explorer, right? That is on the lower part of the screen below all the drive letters.
[Nook Color General] hwong96:
What operating system/version are you using? Do you see a question mark in device manager on your computer?
[Nook Color General] acesrhigh:
Yes and yes. It isn't being recognized at all.

Win 7 64 bit and no, it is not recognizing anything is plugged in, so there is no "unrecognized device" symbol. It's like it doesn't exist.

I've tried all the troubleshooting techniques on every site I could find, so I am blaming the cord. Restarted, refreshed, scanned for new devices, tried adding 3rd party software with ereader/tablet drivers on it, front ports, back ports, etc,,

Was mainly hoping for something to read/write the storage partition, but it seems I will have to wait. Thanks folks.
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
You also have the option of using wifi file transfer apps or wifi transfer built into certain file manager apps... if you are comfortable with adb you can transfer them via wifi through adb as well.
[Nook Color General] TakoiSekoi:
Apps can't write to SD

I installed CM10 on the SD (using a nightly build) and successfully booted with my Nook Color. I installed a couple of eBook reading apps from the Google Play store, but none of them are functioning well because they try to write to the SD and can't. Any help to the noob?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
CM10 has a sometimes problem where it turns your SD into read only. It is very finicky about the quality of the card. If it finds anything it thinks is wrong, it remounts it ro. Only suggestion I have is to try a different card.

Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
[Nook Color General] TakoiSekoi:
SD as R/O

Speaking as a noob, but how is it that I can download and install new apps and they remain persistent through reboots, if the card is rendered R/O? Aren't they written to the card as well?
[Nook Color General] TakoiSekoi:
Partition size issues

So I tried to use a different card, and first followed your instructions in B9 on how to upgrade a card size, since I have done a lot of work on the first card and didn't want to lose it and start from scratch. I went from 1GB card to an 8GB. When I wrote the image to the 8GB card, it shows me 3 partitions on it in the MiniTool Partition Wizard and no numbers on them. One is called Boot and is a FAT32 Primary/Active, the other two are Ext4 formatted and are Primary/None. One is 313MB and is full, and the other is 352MB and is half full.

Neither of the former two will allow me to expand or resize them, but the boot one does. I don;t think it's the Boot that you meant when you said partition 4 though, is it?

(FYI, I used the generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-larger-Rev5.img image originally)
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You had the image on a 1GB card? No wonder you had no sdcard partition! You need to be at least 2GB before an sdcard partition will be created.

Just create one on your 8GB card with mini-tool and format it fat32. It will be the fourth. You will be good to go then.

Edit: by putting the original image on the 1GB card you really choked up the partitions. You notice that your system (p2) is full and data (p3) is half full. You would really be better off backing up your apps with Titanium Backup and starting over with the 8GB card (reburn). That way all your partitions are sized properly.

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[Nook Color General] TakoiSekoi:
Thanks, that worked beautifully! I was not aware of the 2GB bit, I must have glossed over it reading the instructions. All I remember seeing is that I can use cards from 1GB up.
[Nook Color General] charliearthur:
Great instructions! Created the bootable SD and flashed CM10 1231 with no issues
[Nook Color General] surfboy:
Thanks! worked like a charm first time

Thanks leapinlar! Everything worked as planned. For others, here's a simplified list of what I did (win7-x64):

1. download winimage32 from launchpad.net/win32-image-writer

2. download latest cyanogenmod nightly (CM10)

3. download latest gapps for 4.1/CM10 (not 4.2/CM10.1)

4. download latest generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-larger-Rev5.zip and unpack img

5. unpack & run winimage32 as admin

6. write img file to sd card using winimage32

7. copy latest cyanogenmod nightly zip to sdcard root

8. insert card into nook, and boot normally

9. after install return to PC and copy gapps zip

10. insert card into nook, and boot

11. setup wifi, and hold power and choose reboot to recovery

(alternative: after copying gapps zip and booting, boot straight to recovery, setup wifi after upon restart)

That was it! Slight difference between the instructions in the OP and taosaur's instructions but both work. For an SD Card I have a Sandisk 32GB model: SDSDQM-032G which is the highest rated for random write in the spreadsheet on the SD card benchmark thread.
[Nook Color General] finfin1:
Thank you

Worked great! I'm using a Sandisk class 10 - 32gb. Is there something I should watch out for? The boot menu got me right back to nook world! I was at a website (while on the new CM7) that wouldn't respond to entering a zip code. The keyboard came up but nothing would enter into the page window. Probably page related. It was called waltzremote.com. It is a cool web based Directv remote control. I did get it to work on my CM10 nook! That is the only oddity I've noticed so far.

Thank you again!
[Nook Color General] boldred:
Can I just reinstall only the cm9 back into its partition?

Just a couple of days ago, I rooted my NookColor 1.4.2 using "manualnooter-5.08.20.apps2sd.zip". On a 32-gb SanDisk class 4 card, I'm running cm7. Before rooting it, last yaer I had cm9 installed as a dual-boot on the card and it worked well until I opted for the cm9 nightlies. I ran into serious problems so I tried to uninstall it last summer, unsuccessfully, but now I'd like to reinstall the most stable version of cm9 and not bother with updating the nightlies. All the previous partitions on the 32gb card are still there (when I used to successfully boot into both cm7 & cm9). Can I just reinstall only the cm9 back into its partition without having to redo everything (wipe the NC, the card & etc.)? If so, how?

Thanks.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I'm not sure I completely understand. Do you mean you were using Racks' dual boot SD, where you had both CM7 and CM9 on the SD? If that is what you mean, you are best to ask that question on his dual boot thread. This thread is for the single boot SD installation.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook Color General] demlv:
Reformat SD Card

This seems like the best thread for this question. If not, I apologize.

Long story short, Nook Color died a very ugly death (as in shattered, had to literally pry it apart to get the micro Sd card out of the slot). I was running CM7 on it (from the SD card). I have tried a few options, but have not had any success reformatting the card. What is the best way to re-format it so that it can be used as a standard micro sd card?

Thanks . . .
[Nook Color General] Mr-Glass:
I use MiniTool Partition Wizard.. Pretty sure it is free and you can see all the different partitions to delete making it original size card to format..
[Nook Color General] demlv:
I did try that very tool but I found no way to delete or resize the one existing (very tiny) partition. Format failed and almost all other options were greyed out. Any other ideas?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Use SDFormatter free on web.

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[Nook Color General] demlv:
Thanks, but SD formatter also failed. Error message was that the card is write protected. Mind you that this is a micro SD card, so it has no write protection switch, and the reader I'm using also has no write protection switch.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I have had this happen to my microSD's before. They become mysteriously read only. There was nothing I could do. I had to throw it away and buy new. If the card is new and still under warranty, you could try to get a replacement.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook Color General] webyrd:
Have you tried reformatting on a phone or camera? Sometimes works when nothing else does.
[Nook Color General] ryanncass:
I'm a noob at rooting but I followed the instructions and i got the penguin then it said powering off. I powered it back on and it says loading gets the penguin again runs some script then powers off again. Any idea what i could have done wrong?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

You have not said what you have done so far. Obviously you burned and booted the card, but what else have you done? Did you copy the ROM zip to the card?

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[Nook Color General] ryanncass:
I installed both cm-9 20121029 UNOFFICIAL- holiday

and gapps-ics-20111230-signed to the sd card put it in the nook and turned it on
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

I hope you left the .zip name on the end. If you did not, that is your problem. And with no spaces in the name.

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[Nook Color General] ryanncass:
They are in winrar format. i have a picture of how the files look but i cant upload the picture. (i dont have enough post)
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

No, I am not talking about how they are archived, I am talking about how they are exactly named. No spaces and .zip on the end. The script loader is very particular.

Edit: The problem is you have windows set to hide file extensions of known file types. The files in the picture you sent me really have .zip and .img appended to the end and windows is hiding that from you. So it must be some other issue. When you put the card in the PC, do those files show up?

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[Nook Color General] ryanncass:
ok i erased the sd card and started over and now it looks right its asking for my google info
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

By the way, I noticed in the picture you sent me that you were running rev3 of my boot image. That works fine for CM9, but if you ever want to upgrade to CM10, you will need to start over with rev5 from my OP.

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