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Originally Posted by shadow00198
It has apparently been found out that the boot sequence of the Nook Color is USB, Memory Card, Internal Flash Memory. This means 2 things. It first means that the ISO image can be loaded onto the Memory Card allowing a simple way to root. Second. It means that the device cannot be bricked because you would just have to take out or replace the image on the card. This is a hardwired problem meaning that no matter how many software updates B&N does on the device it will not solve this loophole. It is just a matter of time before the files are made available.
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There's still a lot of possibilities that this might not be played out as it seems. First, there's so called Droid X scare: an unidentified security chip which is not turned on -- yet. The function of it when it will be turned ON over WiFi is anyone wild guess: override "hardwired" boot order/sequence, inject "official" wipe and "update", up to the kill-switch/looper/brick. "All your B&N books are belong to us!" (just kidding....or not). Second, the building of a bootable image from a scratch is a tremendous task, ask Zoom II/Pandaboard developers. Just prepare to get something of an Ubuntu first, with no touch, no sound, no nothing first.
For the reference, see the original NOOK "rooting" history and what was achieved so far at Nookdevs. In three words, NOOK is closing.