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The Nook Tablet and the GPL

Posted Jan 11, 2012 1:46 UTC (Wed) by clump (subscriber, #27801)
In reply to: The Nook Tablet and the GPL by jmalcolm
Parent article: The Nook Tablet and the GPL

While the Nook Tablet has a reliable rooting procedure, it unfortunately does have a locked bootloader. This is a very disappointing change from the Nook Color.

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Just to clarify

Posted Jan 11, 2012 19:43 UTC (Wed) by dbruce (subscriber, #57948) [Link]

>it unfortunately does have a locked bootloader

I think I understand you, but does this specifically mean that you can't just put a CM image on the micro-SDHC card and boot from that without rooting, like you can do with the Nook Color?

Just to clarify

Posted Jan 12, 2012 14:03 UTC (Thu) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link]

To the best of my knowledge, you cannot *yet* boot non-official images via SD because of the bootloader. Root certainly is nice, but it does not compare to booting arbitrary roms.