I'm on it Lmiller, results below:
1. before you posted that, I did some research on my own - I flashed via fastboot recovery image from
Index of /files/LK/ to recovery partition (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img) and was able to access recovery via holding power. Couldn't access it reliably every time, but from what i read power button has issues now. Now, from recovery I flashed androidupdate.tgz and it seems to have worked as it took about 5min, so I think recovery is able to mount sd card properly (if it couldn't find and process the file on sd card installation of android wouldn't take that long imo). After that quick reboot from recovery and I flashed updated boot image from your last post to boot partition via fastboot (fastboot flash boot boot.img) and got boot loop.
when I got back to recovery and tried to pull cat from sdcard, i got error:
/ # ←[6nmount sdcard
mount sdcard
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /sdcard failed: No such file or directory
oh, and battery just died on me in recovery - I'll update post when it charges and I install new recovery to boot partition
EDIT: i could not pull mtd0 or mtd1 cats from setup above - didn't throw any errors, but created no file on sdcard
2. now per your instructions - recovery image
-task29
-flash NBH via RUU (btw. "XDAPOOP"? you guys really don't like each other much, huh? lol)
-fastboot boot recovery.img
-adb.exe shell
-mount sdcard
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblock0p1 on /sdcard failed: No such file or directory.
-cat /dev/mtd/mtd0 > sdcard/mtd0.txt
-cat /dev/mtd/mtd1 > sdcard/mtd1.txt
no results as before - no file created, no errors thrown
Hope that can be of help.
huge thanks for your time Lmiller - I really want to get it to work =)