Re: VisionFive 2 Boot/Root Device

[gary%duzan.org@localhost]

> On 20/01/2025 21:37, gary%duzan.org@localhost wrote:
>>     I have a VisionFive 2 board that I bought to play with. It boots the
>> StarFive Debian image fine, but it doesn't do as well with a NetBSD
>> riscv64.img image downloaded recently from releng. Once I sorted out
>> the serial console, I got the boot log which I have uploaded here:
>
>> https://pastebin.com/TXVcMsPi
>>
>> The boot/root should be the microSD card, but while I see dwcmmc[01], I
>> don't see sdmmc? or ld?. I am new to the hardware platform, so I could
>> be
>> missing something obvious.
>>
>>     Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. I don't need to
>> run
>> NetBSD on this board, but I would prefer it.
>
> Please try pkgsrc u-boot in  pkgsrc/sysutils/u-boot-visionfive2
>
> Some instructions to help are here:
>
> https://docs.u-boot.org/en/latest/board/starfive/visionfive2.html
>
> You might like to try the new u-boot from an SD cards before flashing.
>
> Nick

   I finally sorted out how to try the u-boot via UART, and with that I
can boot NetBSD from SD and get root. I think I can flash it from here,
and should be good to go.

   Thanks.

                            Gary Duzan