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[Q] Error formatting /data!

Self-dangerous noob here. NC 1.2, theoretically returned to stock
History:
Got NC 1.2
Rooted w/ManualNooter 4.5.25. Everything seemed to go great. So...
Downloaded, backed up, and flashed CM7 in ROM Manager
Wouldn't boot...hung on n COLOR screen
Same results w/ Phirerom (CM7 based - doh)
Able to restore MN4.5.25 from CWM - BUT noticed "Error formatting /data!" during nandroid restore. Didn't seem to matter...restore successful
Get "Error formatting /data!" no matter what
Able to boot into CM7 from SD, but it has "problems". For instance, there are no "back" or "return" softkeys. So there is no way to navigate around any app! Only the hard "n" home key works
Reflashed stock 1.2
Seemed to work, began to ask me to reregister. BUT, it won't display the keyboard, so I'm stuck at the "Login with your existing B&N...." screen! Keyboard flashes up and then immediately disappears!
As an noob, it occurs to me that all my problems are related to my inability to format the /data partition (if it's even called a partition).
Can any of you awesome people help me? And, if I'm in the wrong forum, any directions would also help. Thanks.

Same error here
If anyone can help with this it would be much appreciated.

have you tried removing CWR then do the 8-boot reset?

No, every time I've done it, it boots into CWR. Maybe REMOVING it will help. lol. Sorry to be so inept. I can flash the 1.2 stock that will remove CWR. Is that the way to do it?

Worked like a charm
Removing CWR and 8-boot-interrupts did the trick. I'm now back to a fully stock NC 1.2.0. Ready to roll up my sleeves and re-brick!
This is the most amazing community. The closest thing I have to any technical knowledge is speaking a little Klingon. VERY little. But, I have learned more here by reading these threads for a couple hours...OK, several hours... than my wife has learned in a dozen trips to the apple store. I feel more empowered every day. You are all great. Can't thank you enough.

Goldie, I wasted a bunch of time on this last night. I'm guessing you have a new nook. If you do, slap cwr on your SD (3.0.2.8 or something) and look for the thread that tells you how to repartition your nook. Follow instructions to set it to the old way. After that run manualroot zip through cwr. Reboot to cwr and wipe data, system, cache. Finally install your rom of choice from your SD card through cwr. That's what I did to finally get it to work.

Thanks. I'll give this a try. As you probably guessed, I DO have a new NC, and while I was able to get it back to 100% stock, and easily reregister it, I had the same results. The ONLY way I can get CM7 running is off the SD card. So, I'll try the partitioning trick. Why do I get the feeling this is going to work? Unfortunately, I'm not on dev's time... I'm at work by 7:30am EDT, but in bed pretty early. I REALLY appreciate the response. Later this week I'll install SDK, and all my tools at home so I'll be able to stay up all night with you awesome folks.

still looking for the thread on re-partitioning. I found the thread on restoring, but I get the error every time I try to reformat the /data.

No luck. I can restore to stock 1.2, reregister, and MN 4.5.25, all easily. BUT, once I flash CM7 (or Phiremod 6.3, etc.) it hangs at the "n C O L O R" screen (C O L O R flashing at various speeds just to fool you into thinking it's actually going to work). Here's what I've noticed...after flashing CM7, the ADOBE screen no longer flashes up at boot. Once it fails to boot the Adobe software, it won't boot at all. So, for now, I guess I'm running CM off my SD unless anyone can suggest anything.

Goldie u have to repartition to get it working. Ill go look for the thread. Also maybe you should try out the cm7 mod over the phiremod Tom. I'm on phiremod now and the lag is killing me
Wow that was painful to find. Needs a sticky.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371
Edit: I take that back about the lag, set your cpu to 1200 in the ROM and change yourgovernator to interactive for an amazingly smooth experience

I've been going nuts trying to figure this out. I too ran into the "error format /data" message but I powered through it only to end up at at the Android logo--nothing. Out of frustration, I returned to CWR and wiped everything--like on my Evo (did not go through to mounts option). That seemed to go through /data but I don't know the difference between a wipe and a format (I'm looking...). Still got bootloops. I tried to return to stock but the 8 interrupts wouldn't work.
Pressing START and N worked though and that got through to CM7 and it's working great now but I'm afraid to do anything else because I still get the "error formatting /data" message.
I've heard horror stories (bricking beyond repair--if that's possible) of users repartitioning their drives though so... I hope there's another solution out there.

I love this community!!
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Thanks a million!! Everything perfect!! I just can't say enough about this awesome community, all the amazing devs.

heh you're more than welcome . i hope this helps anyone else that stumbles on your thread as well. Ive been having fun with my nook but i think its time to trade it out for something a little bigger. Maybe ill just wait till att gets its flavor of gs2 idk. So many choices out there!

thanks guys!
i just had the same problem and falshes all kinds
of zips until i found this post.now i've launched cm with status bar
really really thanks

this worked great for me too! i had a nookcolor bought in december and it had a messed up chargerand 6 really bright white spots that were really noticiable. went to b&n store and the guy just gave me a new one. it came with 1.2 and i had the cwm sd from the old one. so tried restoring my cm7 backup from the old one and error formatting data came up. flashed this zip, and im wondering, since these are too different nookcolors, should i restore the cm7 backup or flash it brand new. because i had a ton of stuff on the old one and i dont want to lose it. so can i ust do advanced restore and restore data, or can i restore the whole thing or just flash and slowly get my stuff back?

update cwm
ok not sure if you fixed it or not yet, but i had the same problem for awhile too until i found a post
your probably using cwm 3.0.0.28 just updated it to 3.2.0.1

bl3achcrazy said:
ok not sure if you fixed it or not yet, but i had the same problem for awhile too until i found a post
your probably using cwm 3.0.0.28 just updated it to 3.2.0.1
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i have tried 3.2.0.1 but get same error message

3.2.0.1 on the bootable card or already on the eMMC? It has to be on the bootable card.

Thanks
It works after getting my nook color around 2pm today and taking it home. I was working on this thing all day I tried several ways and this one worked!!! Having issues with wifi that's all

Silly Noob Part II

I am at a loss. I got this working just fine and then started tweaking things and ended up jacking my NC and restoring it.
I wiped out and reformatted my SD card and did the verygreen method all over again. I want to run CM7 off my SD card. Everything went smooth and I saw no errors.
The first night I charged my NC over night and woke to found the battery drained and it wouldn't charge until I removed the SD card. After that I got the boot loop.
Came home and redid it all over. Once again it worked wonderfully until I restarted my NC and then it gets stuck in the boot loop again.
I have started fresh and have no idea why the issues. I have the latest stable and gapp. Am I doing something wrong in settings? Do I need to mess with ROM Manager at all if booting from the SD card?

Back up and running but still needing questions above answered.
Is there a thread that helps with CM7 or ROM settings after a successful install?
I just want to be sure I am not changing settings that are causing this. I downloaded Nook Tweaks this go around and not sure if that would give me issues. I didn't do this the previous times when I didn't have problems.

jsnake said:
Back up and running but still needing questions above answered.
Is there a thread that helps with CM7 or ROM settings after a successful install?
I just want to be sure I am not changing settings that are causing this. I downloaded Nook Tweaks this go around and not sure if that would give me issues. I didn't do this the previous times when I didn't have problems.
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What kind of card are you using? Anything other than a SanDisk Class 2 or 4 can cause strange instability.

16GB Transcend Class 6. I guess I will search for a Sandisk Class 4 and see if that doesn't solve everything. One day it works perfect and the next it melt downs when I have made no changes. Maybe you are correct and it is simple as that.

I don't know how you doing but reading what you said ".... until I removed the SD card. After that I got the boot loop.", it doesn't make any sense, maybe you have done something wrong? because booting ROM off uSD shouldn't have any ill effect on the local internal OS.
You still have a boot loop w/o the uSD plugged?

What CM7 version are you using?
Also, are you using Rom Manager, or just Clockwork Mod Recovery directly to install CM7? Idk if things have changed, but when I was on an sd-card install, Rom Manager would always want to install things to emmc so it was easier to reboot into recovery and install updates manually.
I was also using an "off brand" sd card and would get force closes on apps. It might be possible, but I would suspect this is more of an installation issue than something with the card. That said, Sandisks are still supposed to offer the best reliability and performance.

You should only have a normal Nook Color OS come up every time you boot with the uSD out. It sounds like you may have flashed your emmc somewhere along the way.
I had a similar boot loop situation when i was trying to charge over USB with a dead battery (the nook kept restarting and running out of juice mid boot.) It corrupted my emmc CM7 somehow and it was fixed by reflashing once i had charged it from the wall plug.
Verygreen's method doesn't require rom manager.

Sorry for any confusion. I am not having any problem with the NC booting when I remove the card.
I just ordered a 16GB Class 4 Sandisk and I am going to give that a try. This current install is working fine but I haven't messed with any settings really.

[Q] Upgrading to CM 7.2 RC

Hi all,
I just had a question about upgrading to CM 7.2RC. I am currently running the stable version of CM 7.1. It has been awhile since I changed out the rom. Did I have to do a full wipe of the device before upgrading to the RC? Or can I just wipe the cache and install the update so it maintains everything else on the device.
Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks.

sdutta6 said:
Hi all,
I just had a question about upgrading to CM 7.2RC. I am currently running the stable version of CM 7.1. It has been awhile since I changed out the rom. Did I have to do a full wipe of the device before upgrading to the RC? Or can I just wipe the cache and install the update so it maintains everything else on the device.
Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Just do the second thing. No full wipe.

This thread down in the cyanogenMod forums shows you how to upgrade if you did not know how or want to gleam more information on this. Or for anyone else that is interested. http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/40698-installing-nightly-builds-and-new-71/

Ok, but what do I do if I'm running off a bootable SD card? I was told to just copy the new rom to my F boot, then boot into recovery. I have done this over and over again with no success. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. if I'm supposed to copy the rom to a specific partition, then Im screwed because I don't know how to do that.lol. By the way, till about 3 months ago I could count on one hand how many times I'd sat down at a computer. Got a nook color as a gift
,and have been in love ever since. I'm running cm7.1 stable, at 1200mhz. I've had to teach myself every step, every step of the way. So if I sound like a idiot, its because I know nothing about computers, but I am learning. Thank you for your patients
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purpleurkle said:
Ok, but what do I do if I'm running off a bootable SD card? I was told to just copy the new rom to my F boot, then boot into recovery. I have done this over and over again with no success. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. if I'm supposed to copy the rom to a specific partition, then Im screwed because I don't know how to do that.lol. By the way, till about 3 months ago I could count on one hand how many times I'd sat down at a computer. Got a nook color as a gift
,and have been in love ever since. I'm running cm7.1 stable, at 1200mhz. I've had to teach myself every step, every step of the way. So if I sound like a idiot, its because I know nothing about computers, but I am learning. Thank you for your patients
Sent from my NookColor using xda premium
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You are probably not renaming the zip to begin with update-. You must do that before the installation script will recognize it.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

Yes I have renamed it. it was cm-7.2 and I changed it to update-cm-7.2 but still nothing. here's the thing, when I try to format this card on my PC, its saying its write protected, and to switch it off. I assume it means the lock switch on the sd card adapter. If thats the case, something is screwed up, because its not locked. I don't think its my adapter cause its not saying that with other cards. When I copy the cm7.2 it says its copying just fine and I can see it on the card but if I take it out and put it back in, its not there. Sorry for the pain in the butt question, and thank you for your time.
Sent from my NookColor using xda premium

purpleurkle said:
Yes I have renamed it. it was cm-7.2 and I changed it to update-cm-7.2 but still nothing. here's the thing, when I try to format this card on my PC, its saying its write protected, and to switch it off. I assume it means the lock switch on the sd card adapter. If thats the case, something is screwed up, because its not locked. I don't think its my adapter cause its not saying that with other cards. When I copy the cm7.2 it says its copying just fine and I can see it on the card but if I take it out and put it back in, its not there. Sorry for the pain in the butt question, and thank you for your time.
Sent from my NookColor using xda premium
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I had the same thing happen to one of my sdcards. I could not format it, or write things to it. I could read it fine, just not change anything. I tried all kinds of readers and software (formatters, partitioners, etc.) It would look like it wrote to it, but take it out of PC and put it back, it was not there. I finally had to throw it away and get a new one. This all happened on my phone, not my nook.

CM9 on Nook Color is frustrating me

I just bought a Nook Color and installed CM9 on it. The bottom where it displays the notification and wireless signal is gone. Also every 5 seconds is force closing everything. Apollo looks cool but I cant check it out mainly cause itll force close it. N i forgot to add it FREEZES! Can anyone tell me if I downloaded the wrong thing n have to re install or just forget it. N if i have to re flash please give me the WORKING links n directions THANKS!!!

BennyP86 said:
I just bought a Nook Color and installed CM9 on it. The bottom where it displays the notification and wireless signal is gone. Also every 5 seconds is force closing everything. Apollo looks cool but I cant check it out mainly cause itll force close it. N i forgot to add it FREEZES! Can anyone tell me if I downloaded the wrong thing n have to re install or just forget it. N if i have to re flash please give me the WORKING links n directions THANKS!!!
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How did you install it? To SD or internal memory. And which version of CM9 are you using? Opengl or non-opengl?
If you installed to internal memory, did you factory reset via CWM first? You need to if coming from stock. You can still do it now.
If you installed to SD, what class SD card are you using? It should be a Sandisk class 4.

Your download isn't broken. CM9 on the NC is - it isn't really *done* yet on the Nook Color. Developers are working on it, but for now your best bet is CM7.2. I expect we might hear an announcement very soon, but for now, use CM7.2.

It's obvious that the installation of this person has problems.
CM9 DOESNT have this kind of problems. It might be a bit slower in hardware acceleration matters in comparison to CM7, but it sure works fine in all other matters.
It's quite mature by now.
Produced by NookColor at ICS AOKP 4.0.4

BennyP86 said:
I just bought a Nook Color and installed CM9 on it. The bottom where it displays the notification and wireless signal is gone. Also every 5 seconds is force closing everything. Apollo looks cool but I cant check it out mainly cause itll force close it. N i forgot to add it FREEZES! Can anyone tell me if I downloaded the wrong thing n have to re install or just forget it. N if i have to re flash please give me the WORKING links n directions THANKS!!!
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What did you download?
Edit: Forget it. LeapinLar already asked all the pertinent questions.

I'm having similar issues as well. It's kind of sluggish and it has frozen a few times already. I downloaded the nightly by Eyeballer over at Techerrata: cm-9-encore-20120904-0700-unofficial.zip.
In the instructions over at Androidforums does say that it might be sluggish the first few days so I guess I will just have to wait it out. I did just install about roughly 12 hours ago.

I just installed today, over my CM7.2 install in internal memory. It seemed okay at first, though a bit sluggish. But then I re-booted it and now it is acting possessed. Apps are launching by themselves (Play Store, a notepad app I had installed, voice command window, etc.) Very odd. I've shut it down and re-booted, same thing. I am thinking of maybe doing a complete fresh install from a SD card, wiping out all my apps from 7.2 and see if that helps at all. Or, I made a backup of my 7.2 install from CWM before installing CM9, so can always go back to that.

Just to follow up on my previous post: My NC running CM9 (latest GL version) did stabilize quite a bit after a day or so. But it still is very sluggish at times, to respond to screen touches, opening apps, and even loading webpages. I ran the Quadrant benchmark tool and the results are slightly lower than I got with CM7.2, but not terribly so. I'm debating whether to go back to 7.2, or do a factory reset and try a fresh install of CM9 and see if that's any better? Is there any evidence that a fresh install will work better than updating over a installed 7.2?

It's total mistake to update CM9 over Cm7 or any other different system.
To be able to talk about how things should be, you need to do a clean install and then for sure things will be better.
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RASTAVIPER said:
It's total mistake to update CM9 over Cm7 or any other different system.
To be able to talk about how things should be, you need to do a clean install and then for sure things will be better.
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Wow, that made a world of difference! Thanks. I thought I'd read somewhere else that it was okay to update from CM7 to CM9.

Returning to CM7 and Nook won't access Market

Hello XDA peeps.
I've had my Nook color for about 3+ years. Have had both my wife and mine running old versions of CM7 on the SD card without issue.
I recently dug mine out to set up for the kids (for a trip we're taking starting this weekend) and first installed CM10 (10.3 I think). loaded and was able to get apps running w/o issue but the poor old Nook and CM10 was so sluggish I felt it was just too much for this legacy device, so I reflashed to the CM7.2.0 [stable]
loaded just fine, but when I went to install GAPPS it installed fine, but will not allow me to access my account now.
no matter how many times I try, it tells me the password does not match for my account.
I know for a fact the password is the right one, and I can get on the Play store just fine on my Galaxy S3 using the same credentials.
I even reflashed the GAPPS to an older version and no luck.
Any thoughts? Really stuck here, since we're leaving Saturday morning and I want to have both Nooks up and running current versions of our boys fav games to pass the time. right now it has no app store, so it's pretty much a stripped Android tablet.

~poz said:
Hello XDA peeps.
I've had my Nook color for about 3+ years. Have had both my wife and mine running old versions of CM7 on the SD card without issue.
I recently dug mine out to set up for the kids (for a trip we're taking starting this weekend) and first installed CM10 (10.3 I think). loaded and was able to get apps running w/o issue but the poor old Nook and CM10 was so sluggish I felt it was just too much for this legacy device, so I reflashed to the CM7.2.0 [stable]
loaded just fine, but when I went to install GAPPS it installed fine, but will not allow me to access my account now.
no matter how many times I try, it tells me the password does not match for my account.
I know for a fact the password is the right one, and I can get on the Play store just fine on my Galaxy S3 using the same credentials.
I even reflashed the GAPPS to an older version and no luck.
Any thoughts? Really stuck here, since we're leaving Saturday morning and I want to have both Nooks up and running current versions of our boys fav games to pass the time. right now it has no app store, so it's pretty much a stripped Android tablet.
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You said you were running CM7 on SD. How did you install the CM10? Then what did you do to get back to CM7? What wiping did you do?
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leapinlar said:
You said you were running CM7 on SD. How did you install the CM10? Then what did you do to get back to CM7? What wiping did you do?
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I actually have the CM10 on the root of the device. I thought I had put it on the SD card, but didn't. (just found this out by accidentally powering on the tablet w/o the card in it)
So, currently downloading the CM 10.2.1 update (from 10.1.3), and perhaps it will fix the sluggishness.
I have a third stock Nook that I have not touched in years that I'm going to flash on the SD card...see if I can't get it to CM7.2 w/o any issues.
but previously I had wiped the card twice and attempted to Reinstall CM7.2.
I think the fault lies in the steps I was following to burn the SD card.
Told me to add the gapps AFTER installing CM7
I was pretty sure in the past I put both on the same SD at the same time.
or it is possible the Google two-step verification/authorization is not compatible with the older Market app. I can get on the Play store just fine on CM10 (but it did have me open in the browser to verify the device).

~poz said:
I actually have the CM10 on the root of the device. I thought I had put it on the SD card, but didn't. (just found this out by accidentally powering on the tablet w/o the card in it)
So, currently downloading the CM 10.2.1 update (from 10.1.3), and perhaps it will fix the sluggishness.
I have a third stock Nook that I have not touched in years that I'm going to flash on the SD card...see if I can't get it to CM7.2 w/o any issues.
but previously I had wiped the card twice and attempted to Reinstall CM7.2.
I think the fault lies in the steps I was following to burn the SD card.
Told me to add the gapps AFTER installing CM7
I was pretty sure in the past I put both on the same SD at the same time.
or it is possible the Google two-step verification/authorization is not compatible with the older Market app. I can get on the Play store just fine on CM10 (but it did have me open in the browser to verify the device).
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I don't think CM10.2 is going to help. CM7 is the best for NC. I would wipe the internal CM10 you have on there and install CM7 to internal. Be sure to put the right gingerbread gapps on there too.
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leapinlar said:
I don't think CM10.2 is going to help. CM7 is the best for NC. I would wipe the internal CM10 you have on there and install CM7 to internal. Be sure to put the right gingerbread gapps on there too.
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yes, thank you. I feel anything higher than CM7 just boggs the processor on these dated tablets. For a kids' tablet, it's just fine and will run most of their games/books and it remains snappy. CM10 just feels overloaded. It is sluggish and slow to respond. I'll try to get it moved back to CM7.
I've been trying to flash the other Nook, but after much effort, I have not been able to get it to boot into recovery.
I have the same card set-up, but I cannot get it to start with the card....constantly goes to the B&N root.

~poz said:
I've been trying to flash the other Nook, but after much effort, I have not been able to get it to boot into recovery.
I have the same card set-up, but I cannot get it to start with the card....constantly goes to the B&N root.
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Sometimes it is difficult to get the NC to boot from an SD. See my NC Tips thread linked in my signature and read section A9.
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leapinlar said:
Sometimes it is difficult to get the NC to boot from an SD. See my NC Tips thread linked in my signature and read section A9.
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Thanks Leapinlar,
Still running into issues. now on BOTH Nooks.
I was pretty sure I remember something about an updated B&N ROM that was signaled with a Green sticker on the box, which the troublesome boot one has.
I am using the generic_sdcard_v1.3.img + cm-7.2.0-encore.zip + gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip all being burned via Terminal on Mac.
The only thing that has changed since I was dabbling with these in the past was the CM release.
I am not able to find my original bookmark of the tutorial I used to use (2+ years ago) so I think there might be a flaw in the instructions I'm following now. (for instance, the instructions I'm following now, the dd= command isn't proceeded by 'sudo' and without the sudo command, it errors out when trying to write the generic SD image to the disc (says disc is not available or locked).
gonna keep trying, because I want to get these up and working for our trip...we have 36+ hours of driving over the course of a week, so I know they'll get bored of looking at sights, reading books, watching DVDs, etc. Mainly for my own sanity, since I'll be driving.
**EDIT* i found the original tutorial I used years ago in my trove of bookmarks. It was the original GlassKeys tutorial. gonna give that a shot and report back with my success/errors.

Well, one thing, if you are going to use that old original image file you need to rename the CM zip to begin with update-. That will not help with the booting issue, but will make it so that image will recognize the CM zip.
I have an updated image zip in my updated instructions for NC SD installs linked in my signature.
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leapinlar said:
Well, one thing, if you are going to use that old original image file you need to rename the CM zip to begin with update-. That will not help with the booting issue, but will make it so that image will recognize the CM zip.
I have an updated image zip in my updated instructions for NC SD installs linked in my signature.
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Thanks. should have mentioned that I did rename the file to "update"
got my old CM10 to boot into Linux penguin and it seemed to be doing it's thing, after formatting the SD card following the GlassKeys instructions, but it is now booting to CM10 still by default and if I hold the "n" key for the boot menu on Cyanoboot and try to boot from SD card (normal or recovery) it just stays on that screen until I power it down.
as for the second, untouched Nook, I did the GlassKeys instructions to the SD card for that and it loaded to Penguin and went through all the install procedures, but now it still boots to the B&N emm setup screen.
wish I had never taken the other to CM10. now I have two Nooks that aren't acting properly.
thing that bugs me is the first one was running fine, just market wouldn't recognize my sign-in...now both are jacked.:silly:

SUCCESS!!!
So thank you goes out to leapinlar!!!
I dropped what I had been doing on my system as far as the files I was burning and read over all your FAQ and tutorial.
I downloaded the files in your how-to and had the tricky OE ROM flashed in a jiff!
The second one is installing now on the peguin screen and JUST now loaded to the CM7.2 bootloader screen.
Still used the GlassKeys instrucitons on how to burn via Terminal on OS X, but used your files (generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-10.1-10.2-11-largest-Rev8c.zip )
My original issue, I have found through all this, was that the Market wouldn't allow me to sign in...well that is an issue with the 2-step verification for my Google account I had activated (someone tried to hack my account, so I had it on). Once I turned it off, I was able to open the market and sign in.
Thanks again for your help leapinlar....check this one off!
Going to update both tonight with our boys' fav apps and games and get ready to hit the road first thing Sat morning! :laugh:

If you want something newer I found that cm10.0 was pretty fast on nook color. Better than cm7. Anything newer I also found was to slow and laggy 10.1+. If interested the last nightly cm10.0 rom and gapps are over in the development fourm.

retrobot said:
If you want something newer I found that cm10.0 was pretty fast on nook color. Better than cm7. Anything newer I also found was to slow and laggy 10.1+. If interested the last nightly cm10.0 rom and gapps are over in the development fourm.
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Thanks! but pretty happy with CM7. any more seems to be a bit much for these processors. both are up, loaded full of games/books and ready for the road trip. :highfive: