[SOLVED] A couple gotchas installing 64-bit on RPi3

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These are not directly present on the installation page, so I'll drop them here in hope that the forum is indexed by search engines. They pertain to the formatting of the SD card on which the base system is to be installed.

* Disklabel type must be `dos` (MBR). `gpt` won't boot. There will be no action on the console, and the green LED won't even blink.

To revert back to `dos` from `gpt`: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/61143/199935

* Disk identifier must be set. If left at `0x00000000` for some reason (e.g. came this way from factory), then `PARTUUID` won't be set either, and the card won't boot due to `/dev/disk/by-partuuid` not having the root partition entry (or boot, for that matter). It will manifest as error $this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'device 'PARTUUID=<DISKIDENTIFIER>-002' not found') (or something, don't remember) on the console.

To set disk identifier: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/474259/199935