Tried doing a nandroid restore, and phone just keeps booting into recovery

[Guest androidtx]

I have a nexus one with unlocked bootloader and rooted, and I installed RA's custom bootloader. I wanted to try out Cyanogenmod, but also be able to go back to my stock ROM, so I did a nandroid backup. I checked out CM, but when I tried to go back to my previous ROM, I performed a nandroid restore, and received no errors, but then when I reboot the phone, it just keeps restoring into the recovery screen for the phone (not the RA recovery, but the standard fastboot/recovery option screen). No matter what I do, I cannot get it to reboot into the ROM, any idea what is going on?

Edit:

Just did a wipe and flash of the cyanogen rom again, and it is booting fine, so it is definitely something with the Nandroid restore.

Edited February 24, 2010 by androidtx

[Guest inf]

You have to flash the stock rom image first and after that do a nandroid restore.

[Guest rj7855]

You have to flash the stock rom image first and after that do a nandroid restore.

Shouldn´t a nandroid restore restore the rom as well? I know that on the Droid and Milestone it works like that

[Guest inf]

Shouldn´t a nandroid restore restore the rom as well? I know that on the Droid and Milestone it works like that

I haven't succeeded in this. I think it should backup the whole rom, but if i don't flash the rom first and then do a nandroid restore i get a bootloader loop

[Guest xkonni]

I haven't succeeded in this. I think it should backup the whole rom, but if i don't flash the rom first and then do a nandroid restore i get a bootloader loop

there have been other people experiencing this. its something with custom kernels not fitting into the boot partition anymore on restore. weird thing.

[Guest androidtx]

Thanks for the tip. If I was on the official update prior to going to cyanogen, any idea which rom(s) I need to flash? Do I need to do the official one through fastboot and the update, or the er27 through custom? I am just still a little confused by all the roms and what They actually contain.