Alternatives to balenaEtcher for risc-v?

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1st boot no X

For NVME you will need to upgrade the firmware in the onboard 1-bit QSPI NOR FLASH, and then change the switches back for booting from the QSPI FLASH. The latest SPL+U-Boot and U-Boot+OpenSBI firmware, at the time of writing, can be found at https://github.com/starfive-tech/VisionFive2/releases The firmware you will need are u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out (129KiB - SPL+U-Boot) and visionfive2_fw_payload.img (2.82 MiB - U-Boot+OpenSBI). Commands to run from a working OS on the VF2 to upgrade the fi…

EDIT looks like the firmware version in my post are already out of date the very latest looks better (if it works with the 202306 StarFive Debian):

Fixed Issues

• An occasional kernel panic occurred when booting from NVME;
• gst-play will jam when playing m3u8 video;

So use

$ wget https://github.com/starfive-tech/VisionFive2/releases/download/VF2_v3.1.5/u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out
$ wget https://github.com/starfive-tech/VisionFive2/releases/download/VF2_v3.1.5/visionfive2_fw_payload.img

If it does not work, just used the linked instructions.