I think I need to modify something in the image to make it boot
Right?
Sorry - totally out of my depth. Donāt know.
Is there anyone figure how to run server edition of Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS yet?
By the way we can boot livecd
- From fedora image need take jh7100-starfive-visionfive-v1.dtb and copy to boot cd card to path dtb/sifive/jh7100-starfive-visionfive-v1.dtb
- From fedora image read the file /boot/boot/uEnv.txt
Then we turn power on enter commands
fdt_high=0xffffffffffffffff
initrd_high=0xffffffffffffffff
scriptaddr=0x88100000
script_offset_f=0x1fff000
script_size_f=0x1000
kernel_addr_r=0x84000000
kernel_comp_addr_r=0x90000000
kernel_comp_size=0x10000000
fdt_addr_r=0x88000000
ramdisk_addr_r=0x88300000
load mmc 0:1 $fdt_addr_r dtb/sifive/jh7100-starfive-visionfive-v1.dtb
load mmc 0:1 $kernel_addr_r EFI/boot/bootriscv64.efi
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But it doesnāt seem to work.
Stoped on
EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernelā¦
EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table
EFI stub: Loaded initrd from LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID device path
EFI stub: Exiting boot servicesā¦
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If you follow the guide Create Debian System image on RISC-V VisionFive created by @Houge_Langley you will end up having a bootable 22.04 LTS image with whatever kernel you want 
The how-to isnāt 100% complete and some steps are not necessary, others are missing or are faulty due to formatting issues caused by the forum software but overall it gives a good guidance on how to create an image 
Some parts are better described in the video though.
Thatās what Iām currently running on my SBC:
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I did it xD. I created system image with ubuntu server 22.04 lvm 5.17.4. Can you check it?
login: user
password: star5
Ubuntu Server 22.04 LVM linux.5.17.4-riscv64
Fist attempt had failure by debootstap.
After a several time i decided to use qemu for build image. This looks like a good result.
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Is this image has canonical kernel that support OpenZFS?
I dont know. Most probably not.
I took this instruction GitHub - starfive-tech/linux at visionfive-5.17.y for build the kernel and enabled a support of lvm. The ubuntu server installer require a kernels lvm support.
I think u can build your own kernel with ābindeb-pkgā direct on a board and install it like a deb package
If you will use this image before install new kernel need copy the file /boot/dtb-5.17.4-visionfive-star5-build2`` to /boot/dtb-YOU_KERNEL_VERSION_NAMEfor generate valid grub entry byupdate-grub```
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29GB
Can you publish a corrected step-by-step instruction guide? I am sure many would appreciate it. Thanks a lot for the information this far anyway.
- download the zipped image
- unzip it (you will get
imgfile that has size of 29GB or 31GB) - flash it to SDCARD using BalenaEtcher
- insert the SDCARD to your VisionFire SoC then boot to it
I tried it, the kernel missing squashfs and snap cannot work because of that,
I tried to install official kernel then I restarted the board and visionfive kernel didnāt change 
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I will have a look at it later this week. Currently Iām trying to write a simple Bash script to do all the work 
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I am pretty sure this wonāt help but if Fedora is already installed, can this Fedora "media writer toolā create another distro ?
I did a build kernel with snap and squashfs support. Now systemd loading withoud errors.
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After installing:
- sudo cp /usr/lib/linux-image-5.17.4-visionfive-foobar-26042022-1/starfive/jh7100-starfive-visionfive-v1.dtb /boot/dtb-5.17.4-visionfive-foobar-26042022-1
- sudo sudo update-grub
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