I guess that's the name of the game then, is getting an 8GB recovery that will work from cyanoboot (on an SD); currently I'm not even sure we have one for eMMC.Nice to hear from you man! (I'm the guy from the irc chat that helped ya out) as long as it'll boot into cyanoboot it you can boot into recovery from there. Not sire if nit will without a working recovery, or if it will boot into cyanoboot at all if something goes wrong but like you said, you're the first one and you're biting the bullet. I wish you luck.
Sent from my CM9 Alpha 0.02 Nook Tablet
I understand the primary roadblock to progress on the 8GB model is that none of the developers have one. I would like to fill that role, or at least am willing to be a guinea pig, if anyone smarter than me has information to provide to get me started.