... need a small flash drive, partitioned to match the original install. The installer was never tested against a GPT partition, nor was it tried for PARTUUID, as this is NOT Jeff Doozans uboot or ubit. partition the flash drive as 1 partition and with the file system of ext3. If nothing else, ext3 ...

... can still find the boot and root partitions (as long as they're in the 1st 2TB of the disk). Yes, and hybrids work. We tested 3.1 with root=PARTUUID=xxxxxxx

I wouldn't have suggested it if I hadn't already tried it myself.

I booted a oxnas from an SSD SATA drive with hybrid so that I could test PARTUUID rootfs decisions.

... ${devtype} ${devnum}:${rootpart} ${fdt_addr_r} /boot/dtbs/${_fdt} set _fdt setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty1 rw rootwait root=PARTUUID=${uuid} ${extra_bootargs} bootz ${kernel_addr_r} - ${fdt_addr_r}

... [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 161280 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS1,115200 console=tty0 root=PARTUUID=68f28f33-02 rw rootwait quiet loglevel=0 cma=384MB@128MB smsc95xx.macaddr=b8:27:eb:d4:95:2c [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 ...

... part??! Why?! blkid blkid /dev/sdc2 /dev/mapper/rpi /dev/sdc2: UUID="893228f7-4ce4-4b20-a57c-2024bfae2b6a" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" PARTUUID="3d9dfa19-02" /dev/mapper/rpi: UUID="d9912191-bda8-405f-bb8f-63d5a73b918d" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" ...

... mobility grouping on. Total pages: 64960 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=orion_nand:1M(u-boot),-(rootfs) root=PARTUUID=00000000-01 rw rootwait ignore_loglevel netconsole=6665@10.10.10.3/eth0,6666@10.10.10.4/ [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, ...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')code][ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=orion_nand:1M(u-boot),-(rootfs) root=PARTUUID=00000000-01 rw rootwait ignore_loglevel [/code]