[FS#682] WNR2000v3 bootloop after installing 17.01.0

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FS#682 - WNR2000v3 bootloop after installing 17.01.0
User who did this - Will (williamhaley)

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The current hardware table says 17.01.2 is the latest LEDE supported release for this model.

https://lede-project.org/toh/views/toh_fwdownload?dataflt%5BModel*~%5D=WNR2000&dataflt%5BVersions*~%5D=V3

However, I'm seeing a similar issue as reported by Aaron Z. Device gets into a reboot loop. Doesn't respond to pings or any network activity unless I do a hard reset on the device. After it resets, I'm able to flash and recover, but that's it.

I verified the img checksum and retried flashing it a couple times. I'm able to recover each time, but the device is unusable after flashing LEDE. Keeps rebooting and is unresponsive. I don't have a serial cable to debug.

I recently tried the latest OpenWrt guide for the WNR2000v3. 

https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wnr2000#flashing_openwrt_on_wnr2000v3

I'm able to flash that OpenWrt image fine, but because there's so little space on the device, root mounts as a tmpfs and no changes persist. It's essentially unusable.

I wonder if a similar problem is at play here? Not enough device space for the most recent LEDE builds? I wonder if it makes sense to mark this device as unsupported and either reference an older build or guide users towards building a custom image that'll fit?

https://lede-project.org/docs/user-guide/imagebuilder
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https://bugs.lede-project.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=682#comment3344