I have had no luck booting the Starfive Debian ‘69’ image off my NVMe SSD yet by following the instructions in the first post. It starts to boot but it kernel panics before it loads Xorg or gets to the login screen.
I have updated my VF2 to the latest official u-boot and firmware, expanded the root partition to fill the SSD and I’ve adjusted the fstab and extlinux.conf files to use nvme0n1p3 for the root partition instead of the SD card.
Here’s a boot log of me ‘manually’ entering (copy/pasting) the above suggested U-boot commands via a serial connection followed by the kernel panic which seems to be HDMI firmware related?
I can successfully boot the Debian 69 image off SD card fine and I can also access my NVMe disk under Debian 69 when booted from SD card fine but I want to boot Debian directly from NVMe with no SD card boot partition.
This log is from when my VF2 was attached to a 1080p HDMI display that I have tested and know works under Debian 69 when it is booted from a SD card.