Meh,
It's not looking good for rooting the G2 so far (although I'm SURE it'll be done).
First of all I couldn't install ADB drivers for it. Grabbed the usb vendor and device IDs, manually added them to the *.inf and it let me install the drivers anyway.
So I'm thinking fucking sweet, until I restart in recovery mode and ADB shows the device offline.
Restart into bootloader for fastboot, and it appears USB is disabled which makes it useless.
Wondering now if the official rom can be modified and spoofed to install from SD...
I give it a week or less til root.
Don't understand why they make it so difficult. The ability to root only makes the device more desirable, and if it was easier to root they wouldn't have to worry about getting a bunch of returned bricks (that they will ultimately just reflash and send back out).