The Nook Color mounts the /system partition as read-only. Once I activated the Adobe Market, it was not long before it started to download updates to Adobe Air and the Adobe Flash Player.  When I rebooted the NC, there was a conflict between the version of these applications in the /system directory and the /data directory. It is this conflict that leads to the now infamous boot loop.

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For those readers who do not know, the Nook Color actually runs a B&N version of Android. For the first six weeks that I used my Nook Color, I was too busy enjoying to start experimenting with modifying, or replacing, the distributed version. Then I moved to Costa Rica, and ran into a problem. The Nook Color does not support the Ad Hoc topology for WiFi, and my Nokia, and Android phones, only support this topology when running as a WiFi Hot Spot.

The choice was between Nooting, which provides root access, and installing the CM7 version of Android (seenookworks Definitions article for the list of methods). Since I want to keep my Nook Color as an eBook reader, I opted to Noot the distributed version. Using autonooter was not an option, as its development seems to have stopped with version 1.1 of the Nook Color. Consequently, I decide to go with the manual noot option. This post describes my experiences with this project.

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