![]() ![]() But first you might want to checkout my review and video review of the dual-boot hack showing it action. Here’s my take on how to install the dual-boot Android hack onto the Kobo Aura HD. The Kobo Aura HD is the only one that I’ve heard about dual-boot working. There used to be links to dual-boot hacks for the Kobo Glo and Kobo Touch in the article, but they’ve since been removed and are now only in the comments section so I’m not sure if this works on those two devices or not. You basically just have to download a few files, extract them, and move them onto the Kobo device. You don’t really need any technical know-how. You should see the increased size of your storage.The process is straightforward and is easy to accomplish, especially if you’ve ever installed any of the other Kobo hacks, such as adding night mode or multi-touch. Your e-reader, on your Kobo check 'Settings' and then 'Storage'. To check that your have successfully resized the storage of On successful finish, reinsert new card into Kobo and power on. Check changes have been applied to storage This will be added to a queue in Gparted.Ĭlick on Apply changes in Gparted to start the resizing. Right-click on the non-Linux partition and resize to grow. Unmount all partitions for the SDcard otherwise this ![]() Right-click on all partitions of the device and choose unmount. Find your device in the dropdown menu in the upper right hand corner. Insert SDcard intro read/writer if not already inserted. Resize the partitions: Use GParted to resize partitions If not already inserted and choose to boot from it. On successful reboot, you should see the REFind boot loader display with all available disk drives. Reboot computer as normal to finish re-enabling. Re-enable SIP by running the command csrutil enable. Reboot computer into recovery mode with CMD + R.Ĭlick on Utilities -> Terminal and cd into the REFind folder location. Turn off SIP by running csrutil disable command in terminal. Reboot your computer, holding down CMD + R to boot into 'recovery mode.'Ĭlick on Utilities in the task bar at the top of the window, and choose Terminal. Unzip the REFind file and note the location of the folder. Either way your Mac will need to have an EFI boot loader, because currently macOS will not find your USB drive to boot from. However, I had previously created a live USB with Kali Linux which comes with ![]() USD with gparted on it to boot with my Mac. We cannot use the macOS Disk Utility program to resize the partitions on our microSD. Resize the partitions: Install a boot loader Use the diskutil umount $filepath_to_sub_partition command. If you get 'resource busy' message on macOS, then unmount sub-partitions as suggested here: If you run this command on Linux, you need to upcase the m in bs=4m to be bs=4M. img to it with the command dd if=kobo_sdcard.img of=/dev/$volume_name bs=4m Troubleshooting Remove the old microSD and replace with new, larger microSD card in the read/writer. img file in the current directory named kobo_sdcard.img with a block size of 4 MiB. img file by running dd if=/dev/$volume_name of=kobo_sdcard.img bs=4m Find and make note of the name of the volume that is your microSD card. You should see the drive mounted and displayed on your Desktop. Remove the microSD card being careful not to touch the exposed circuit board. Start near the usb port at the bottom and edge around the case. Use spudger to lift up and off the Kobo's backing. Otherwise, we'll have a library of books but no OS to run our Kobo e-reader. We will copy all 3 partitions of the Kobo drive, including the operating system not just the e-reader's library of books. We'll create an image of the current Kobo drive. a program to re-partition and resize partitions on your microSD card like Gparted, either on your computer or on a bootable USB.spudger to open the backing of the Kobo and pull out the microSD card.microSD reader/writer (like IOgear's $5.99 reader).New, larger microSD card (like SanDisk 32GB 98 mb/s $15.99).Kobo Glo HD (or other Kobo model that uses microSD).The best place to find help with Kobo images or a bricked device are the forums at. I no longer own a Kobo Glo and do not have any Kobo images. Before erasing and partitioning your Kobo always back up your SD card and make sure you have an image of your Kobo drive before beginning this process.
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