OK, a little more info. I booted a linux vm and ran the fastboot command to unlock the phone install clockwork mod recovery
at that point, once the phone rebooted, linux in the vm could no longer enumerate it. Linux got usb events, but it could not, in its own words, "enumerate the device" So I went back to the mac, and using the adb tool, was able to find the phone, connect to it, push a file to it, and install clockwork mod. Now, that clockwork mod is sitting here showing the boot screen endlessly. So I went back to recovery screen on the phone, wiped the data and cache again, rebooted again, and this time it came up fine. adb shell gets a nice root shell. So, at this point, you'll own the phone. So, tomorrow, on to inferno! ron
