Thread: The Glo HD has an internal microSD card slot
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Old 04-25-2015, 03:18 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by booklover6 View Post
Ok, I didn't listen to their commentary, but did they actually clone the 4gb card and write it to a 16gb card and enlarge the partition, or did they just put a card in, and say it didn't work?
Looking at the article linked by bernard.ryefield and the section quoted below:

The Kobo Glo HD does not have any internal memory, the entire operating system and proprietary Kobo files are stored on a 4 GB Sandisk SD card. We tried cloning the OS and put it on a 2 GB SD and a 16 GB SD and the e-reader failed to boot properly. We also verified that there were no hidden files preventing it from working, but all of the files are clearly visible.

My personal opinion is that they did not clone the entire uSD card but rather copied the contents of the FAT32 partition to a new uSD card without copying the Linux partitions. That procedure would not result in a bootable uSD card.
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