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Rooting your first-gen Kindle Fire from OS X
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You don't need some stupid collection of batch files; this isn't that hard.

  1. Set up the Android SDK with Kindle Fire add-ons so that adb devices shows the Kindle in your list, like so: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/fire/connect-adb.html
  2. Attain bootloader access per http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24129239 -- go only as far as flashing the bootloader and recovery with fastboot. Do not use a version of twrp newer than 2.2.2.0: http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/blaze/openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.0-blaze.img or else a process named zygote will continuously segfault when you try to boot and all you will see is spinning triangles. If fastboot seems to hang without printing output, it hasn't done anything; you can safely hit Ctrl+C and force-reboot your Kindle.
  3. Boot in to twrp, Wipe Fucking Everything, and sideload and install your ROM of choice (I am partial to this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1765288 -- do not unzip it before copying it to your Kindle). Make sure to wipe the cache that it gives you an option to wipe after you install the image.

Boom.

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