Blog: 2023-08-29
Ok I got my starfive visionfive2 to boot, using their official 202306 debian image. Unzipped the image from the SD folder and flashed it with BalenaEtcher. I wasn't seeing any output printed, but after I watched a video that told me the way to put the boot pins, I followed their instruction to make switch 1 away and 2 is towards the number of switch.
After the usual boot I was presented with a graphical login!
user starfive
got me logged in.
The first thing I did was follow the quick start guide's instructions to resize the SD card system, which worked while it was running just fine. The key was an interactive fdisk followed by a resize2fs. Here's how it all looked before:
And here's how it looks now:
I can also see the SSD storage is recognized:
but I haven't done anything with it yet. This blog seems to have instructions on how to get the board booting from SSD:
https://jamesachambers.com/starfive-visionfive-2-debian-ssd-boot-guide/
But I note they talk about using heat sinks, and I don't even have a fan attached to my lil cpu. Honestly the physical setup is tricky, but I think they assume you know exactly what you're doing. No "magic smoke" yet, just Debian ;)