Root [Boost] Anyone tried this?

[dip_spit]

I've only had this phone for like two days (came from HTC510), but from what I've been gathering about LG (LAF) and the Boost bootloader being locked, has anyone tried killing LAF to get into fastboot (ie. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17 )? Granted I know we don't have a recovery.

Edit: I'm dumb. Found my answer.

 

[jmacie]

Could you share your answer please? Thanks

 

[dip_spit]

The LAF partition re-writes on reboot. So zero-ing out mmcblk0p17 won't do anything but lock up the phone with an error on reboot until the battery gets pulled.

 

[ScarletRooter]

Isn't it dd if=/dev/zero of/dev/block/mmcblkop17/by-name/laf

At least that's how it was for other LG devices

 

[dip_spit]

From my Boost variant:
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 DDR -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p23
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 aboot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 abootbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 boot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p18
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 cache -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p38
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 carrier -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p36
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 drm -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p31
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 eksst -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 encrypt -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p25
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 factory -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p29
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 fota -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p30
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 fsc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p21
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 fsg -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 grow -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p40
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 hyp -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 hypbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 laf -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 metadata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 misc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 modem -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p33
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 modemst1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p15
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 modemst2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p16
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 mpt -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p32
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 pad -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 pad2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p35
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 persist -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 persistent -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p34
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 rct -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p27
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 recovery -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p19
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 rpm -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 rpmbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 sbl1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 sbl1bak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 sec -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p24
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 sns -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p28
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 ssd -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p22
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 system -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p37
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 tz -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 tzbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-02 23:00 userdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p39

I just didn't have it by-name and chose to use the actual partition block. Also, zero'ing out LAF doesn't work. It's been tried by someone on the forum already (I just can't find the link to his comment).