Moto E (1st gen) failed root.

I went back to the TWRP-2.8.6.0-condor.img version as people report this is universally stable for the 1st Gen 2014 device.
The flashing seems successful:

Andrews-iMaclatform-tools Andy$ fastboot flash recovery twrp-2.8.6.0-condor.img

target reported max download size of 299892736 bytes

sending 'recovery' (8652 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.290s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 0.941s]

finished. total time: 1.231s
And the phone reboots on command but into the normal usual standard boot.

Andrews-iMaclatform-tools Andy$ fastboot reboot

rebooting...

finished. total time: 0.001s

It's frustrating that I can't even get to see if I could actually boot up from my flashed img file as the "Warning Bootloader Unlocked" screen comes up and it reboots into normal mode.

The whole point of trying this was to make my daughters piddly 4GB of RAM go further.
At this rate I'm just going to have to face up to buying a new phone with larger RAM.
I honestly didn't think it would be so "hit and miss".

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Moto E (1st gen) failed root.