Rooting process hanging at "writing preinstall..."

I'm in the process of trying to root my 2.3.4 Atrix, and I'm running into a bit of a snag.

In the command prompt on the screen, it says "writing preinstall..." and has been sitting like that for 10 minutes.
On the phone, the last thing it displayed is "Flashing StorMgr partition: PIA"

I'm running 2.3.4 OTA (previously froyo rooted) and I'm doing the flashing from a brand new WinXP box with all drivers installed. I've already figured out that I can pull the battery at this point and the phone still boots, but when I try to get the adb shell, that hangs while trying to connect, so I figured I needed root first.

Any ideas?

Nevermind... I just entered the rest of the commands from the tutorial on the phone directly (bypassing adb for the shell) and everything worked. w00t 4 r00t!

Glad this was figured out without assistance, enjoy!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by x64Jimbo

Nevermind... I just entered the rest of the commands from the tutorial on the phone directly (bypassing adb for the shell) and everything worked. w00t 4 r00t!

---

Hey there, glad it worked for ya in the end... I have the same problem but I can't figure out the: "just entered the rest of the commands from the tutorial on the phone directly (bypassing adb for the shell)"

Any light you can shed on that would rock!