Can't get VF2 to work

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@ReTechie

Downloaded the 202510 Debian image (~1.4GB). But right now I only have a spare 4GB SD card to work with. Just writing that image anyway produced no screen output on my VF2.

I read that perhaps (or probably) the VF2 firmware would need an update to boot these newer images. Downloaded the VF2 software release v6.0.0 with “sdcard.img” (~540MB) in it. That was the only SD card image so far which actually produced screen output over HDMI. And an USB keyboard was detected, ok. But… it did not take any keyboard input. So, couldn’t start a flashing utility & update firmware.

Recovering the Bootloader

https://github.com/starfive-tech/VisionFive2/releases/download/JH7110_VF2_6.12_v6.0.0/u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out
https://github.com/starfive-tech/VisionFive2/releases/download/JH7110_VF2_6.12_v6.0.0/visionfive2_fw_payload.img

or

https://debian.starfivetech.com/ Here are all historical versions of VF2, you can try each old version to see if any can boot and display via HDMI.
If an old image version can boot into the Debian system, then follow the VisionFive 2 Debian User Guide Page Contents to upgrade uboot spl.