Expand root fs, stuck at booting

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Continuing the discussion from Expand filesystem or create partition without restarting openwrt:

Continuing the discussion from Expand filesystem or create partition without restarting openwrt:

I am attempting this on raspberry pi 5 with latest 24.10.0 stable release.

Flashed openwrt-24.10.0-bcm27xx-bcm2712-rpi-5-ext4-factory.img.gz to 32GB SDCARD and booted to openwrt first time and then changed network settings to join the device to an existing network.

opkg update
opkg install parted losetup resize2fs
wget -U "" -O expand-root.sh "https://openwrt.org/_export/code/docs/guide-user/advanced/expand_root?codeblock=0"
. ./expand-root.sh
sh /etc/uci-defaults/70-rootpt-resize

last command rebooted the device, But its not coming back to network. I have a display connected. So when I check the console its stuck at below screen and keyboard not responding.

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Any thoughts?

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I've had this happen too. Check your cmdline.txt in the boot partition of the memory card. The uuid of the root partition has changed. You'll need to update it.

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I am trying again with fresh install.
Before doing https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/advanced/expand_root

root@OpenWrt:/boot# cat cmdline.txt
console=tty1 console=serial0,115200 root=PARTUUID=661a1cf7-02 rootfstype=squashfs,ext4 rootwait
root@OpenWrt:/boot#

Are you suggesting I update any script/command while doing https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/advanced/expand_root or after completing the instructions I update anything in cmdline.txt?

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Edit the cmdline.txt to say root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 instead of root=PARTUUID=661a1cf7-02. The resize script should work fine afterwards.

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