[FS#3750] [21.02.0-rc1] ath79 uap-pro bricked from ar71xx sysupgrade or factory tftprecovery

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FS#3750 - [21.02.0-rc1] ath79 uap-pro bricked from ar71xx sysupgrade or factory tftprecovery 
User who did this - Walter Sonius (walterav1984)

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The issue might be that the root device cannot be found because of different partition layout?


[    1.490612] /dev/root: Can't open blockdev
[    1.494814] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
[    1.502415] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[    1.510899] 1f00             256 mtdblock0 
[    1.510903]  (driver?)
[    1.517545] 1f01              64 mtdblock1 
[    1.517548]  (driver?)
[    1.524197] 1f02           15744 mtdblock2 
[    1.524200]  (driver?)
[    1.530850] 1f03             256 mtdblock3 
[    1.530852]  (driver?)
[    1.537494] 1f04              64 mtdblock4 
[    1.537496]  (driver?)
[    1.544145] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)


Comparing 19.07.7 and 21.02.0-rc1 shows that earlier there were 7 mtd partitions instead of 5mtd partitions:


[    0.628965] m25p80 spi0.0: found mx25l12805d, expected m25p80
[    0.635597] m25p80 spi0.0: mx25l12805d (16384 Kbytes)
[    0.640761] 7 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[    0.646808] Creating 7 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[    0.651675] 0x000000000000-0x000000040000 : "u-boot"
[    0.658416] 0x000000040000-0x000000050000 : "u-boot-env"
[    0.665087] 0x000000050000-0x000000250000 : "kernel"
[    0.672154] 0x000000250000-0x000000fb0000 : "rootfs"
[    0.677989] mtd: device 3 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem
[    0.683780] 1 squashfs-split partitions found on MTD device rootfs
[    0.690118] 0x0000004b0000-0x000000fb0000 : "rootfs_data"
[    0.697764] 0x000000fb0000-0x000000ff0000 : "cfg"
[    0.703828] 0x000000ff0000-0x000001000000 : "EEPROM"
[    0.710890] 0x000000050000-0x000000fb0000 : "firmware"



[    0.334877] spi-nor spi0.0: mx25l12805d (16384 Kbytes)
[    0.340193] 5 fixed-partitions partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[    0.346656] Creating 5 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[    0.351549] 0x000000000000-0x000000040000 : "u-boot"
[    0.357635] 0x000000040000-0x000000050000 : "u-boot-env"
[    0.364056] 0x000000050000-0x000000fb0000 : "firmware"
[    0.370312] 0x000000fb0000-0x000000ff0000 : "cfg"
[    0.376132] 0x000000ff0000-0x000001000000 : "art"

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