[Ken Stuart]

I searched here and in Google and did not find any clarification, so I want to explicitly ask this:

Will an entirely stock and unmodified ("unrooted") Nook Color boot from a bootable microSD card (inserted in the microSD slot) when the Nook is turned on ?

(In other words, the booting-from-SD capability is not something that has to be enabled in some way?)

If "yes", then I am surprised that there is not more emphasis placed on keeping the NC stock and just booting to Android from an SD card.

Especially since there are a large number of people who are interested in running Android, but may not quite have the expertise to avoid having problems.

And, since there is a major BN update coming soon that will require everyone to redo everything (and might have some of the missing capabilities that cause many people to want to root in the first place).

PS If I understand the threads in XDA correctly, "booting instead of rooting" has only been an option for less than a month, which would explain why it is not generally advocated.

I am very technically capable - I'm a professional software engineer who wrote the first scroll bars for Unix - but even so, I would rather keep the NC stock in the short term, for warranty reasons and due to the coming update, if I can run Android from the SD card.