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Originally Posted by j.p.s
In theory, you could boot it from an SD card and run or install then run cyanogenmod. When the HD and HD+ were relatively new there were lots of reports of individual units difficult or impossible to boot from SD. Does anyone know whether that has been resolved?
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There are two issues with that, the HD and HD+ dislike many SD card brands. As Difflugia had already replied, Sandisk is safe. But there's also the formatting of the card. It has to be
just right. When I upgraded my Cyanogen version, I was unable to boot from the SD card I'd used to install Cyanogen in the first place. I had to reformat it using SDFormatter to make it work again. It's been fine since then. I also had to reformat the card I use for storage. It could read it sort of, but it was making it take several minutes to boot, occasional crashes (some during boot) and extremely slow performance. I have yet to figure out how, but reformatting the card fixed that too.
Reading all this stuff, I am so, so glad I just put Cyanogen on my Nook HD+s from the start and never bought into B&N's eBook ecosystem. The things I did buy from them are all securely backed up in Calibre with the DRM stripped.
I also find this all sad, the Nook HD+ is a great tablet. I love mine, and use it every day. Was really hoping they'd make more. The Samsung collab one is kind of crappy.