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Am Mittwoch, 13. Dezember 2017, 11:18:02 CET schrieb Jaap de Jong:
> > Does everything work as expected if you don't set the resize flag in
> > ubinize? Maybe this is the culprit.
> 
> Yes, that was my last experiment and that works. It turns off the code
> in the old uboot that modifies the volume in such a way that the new
> kernel is not able to deal with it.
> The strange thing is, that an old kernel doesn't mind.

Can you please rule out U-Boot first?
IOW don't attach UBI from U-Boot and load the kernel via TFTP/NFS, etc...
I'm still not sure whether this is a regression in Linux or U-Boot.

Thanks,
//richard