[Android General] roustabout:
Take a look at the update in the first post. '08 is now rootable.

There is a CWR originally written by Drgravy for the TF701 which will boot the Slate 8 as well.

It's a fully functional CWR, lets you flash zips and the whole nine yards.

It also sees if you're not rooted and offers to fix it for you.

I borked my partition table completely. I just finished repairing it and getting the OS reinstalled. I'll detail that tomorrow, but if anyone is willing to share what a "stock" layout looks like, I'd love to see one.

Very short version: image the damaged internal memory. Repair gpt in linux. Reimage back to device. Assign correct names using gdisk. Reinstall OS using CWR.

the output from these commands would be great:

mount

cat /proc/mounts

cat /proc/partitions

and one other - this one requires grabbing a copy of a utility called gptfdisk and running it. (It's fdisk for gpt based disks; like fdisk, it does not commit changes without asking.)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/64885133/gptfdisk.zip is where the file lives (originally compiled by meghd00t)

Copy gdisk to your device and make it executable

adb push gdisk /system/bin/gdisk

adb shell

# chmod 777 gdisk

invoke by

# gdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0

then

p for print

On a nexus 7, the output looks like this:

root@flo:/ # gdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0

gdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.4

Partition table scan:

MBR: protective

BSD: not present

APM: not present

GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): p

p

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 60424192 sectors, 28.8 GiB

Logical sector size: 512 bytes

Disk identifier (GUID): 98101B32-BBE2-4BF2-A06E-2BB33D000C20

Partition table holds up to 32 entries

First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 60424158

Partitions will be aligned on 2-sector boundaries

Total free space is 1526010 sectors (745.1 MiB)

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name

1 131072 306143 85.5 MiB 0700 radio

2 393216 399359 3.0 MiB FFFF modemst1

3 399360 405503 3.0 MiB FFFF modemst2

4 524288 554287 14.6 MiB 8300 persist

5 655360 656919 780.0 KiB FFFF m9kefs1

6 656920 658479 780.0 KiB FFFF m9kefs2

7 786432 787991 780.0 KiB FFFF m9kefs3

8 787992 794135 3.0 MiB FFFF fsg

9 917504 920503 1.5 MiB FFFF sbl1

10 920504 923503 1.5 MiB FFFF sbl2

11 923504 927599 2.0 MiB FFFF sbl3

12 927600 937839 5.0 MiB FFFF aboot

13 937840 938863 512.0 KiB FFFF rpm

14 1048576 1081343 16.0 MiB FFFF boot

15 1179648 1180671 512.0 KiB FFFF tz

16 1180672 1180673 1024 bytes FFFF pad

17 1180674 1183673 1.5 MiB FFFF sbl2b

18 1183674 1187769 2.0 MiB FFFF sbl3b

19 1187770 1198009 5.0 MiB FFFF abootb

20 1198010 1199033 512.0 KiB FFFF rpmb

21 1199034 1200057 512.0 KiB FFFF tzb

22 1310720 3031039 840.0 MiB 8300 system

23 3031040 4177919 560.0 MiB 8300 cache

24 4194304 4196351 1024.0 KiB FFFF misc

25 4325376 4345855 10.0 MiB FFFF recovery

26 4456448 4456463 8.0 KiB FFFF DDR

27 4456464 4456479 8.0 KiB FFFF ssd

28 4456480 4456481 1024 bytes FFFF m9kefsc

29 4587520 4587583 32.0 KiB FFFF metadata

30 4718592 60424158 26.6 GiB 8300 userdata

thanks very much. If you're willing to post here, great; if you want to discuss offline, PM me?