[sufue]

I apologize in advance - I am a newbie at working with my Nook Color, and I suspect I have missed something really basic. I'm a bit more than beginner at this sort of thing, but not much more. I can usually carry out other folks' instructions pretty well (i.e. successfully de-branded and rooted my Android phone) but don't do any programming myself.

I am trying to set up my NC to boot CM7.1 (update-cm-7.1.0-encore-signed) from the SD card, while keeping my stock BN firmware (1.3) in case I decide I want it or need it for some reason.

I have followed verygreen's "size-agnostic" instructions (twice!) and have apparently successfully managed to get as far as getting CM7 on the SD card. Both times I looked at the card with some partition software I have and it created the partitions as verygreen says it should: "more than 2G cards gets: 460M system, 975M data, rest is FAT for sdcard." It also still has the original "boot" partition.

However, when I now put the card back in my NC and try to boot from the card, I get a screen with the little Linux penguin, and it seems to carry out actions similar to that which ran the first time - it appears to be looking for the installer, but doesn't find it, and then just sits there, rather than boot to Android.

I do have the newer NC, with 1.3, and with the different partitioning. I had the impression (although now I can't find the post which gave me that impression) that verygreen's installer should work with 1.3, but maybe something is goofing up there?

Or, I'm wondering if somehow something was supposed to change in the boot partition that isn't changing, something so it doesn't look for the installer anymore?

Or is there something I missed that I need to do, like push the "n" while powering on - although I tried that too.

Anyway, any help would be very very much appreciated!