StarFive VisionFive 2
Copying Ubuntu onto the SD-card
Download the Ubuntu preinstalled server image and flash it on your sdcard using:
xzcat ubuntu-23.04-preinstalled-server-riscv64+visionfive2.img.xz | sudo dd bs=1M conv=fsync of=/dev/sdX
You will have to replace /dev/sdX by the actual device name of your SD card. Please, be especially cautious not to overwrite the wrong drive as this cannot be undone.
First boot
Connect to the UART using a UART-TTL USB adapter. For accessing the serial console you can use picocom:
picocom -b 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0
Insert the SD card and power on the board.
When booting the first time wait until you see an output line confirming that cloud-init has finished. Cloud init is responsible for generating the SSH keys and setting the default password. Cloud init itself will also need a few minutes. The line to wait for will look similar to
[ 150.053340] cloud-init[1274]: Cloud-init v. 23.1.1-0ubuntu2 finished at Mon, 03 Apr 2023 11:14:35 +0000. Datasource DataSourceNoCloud [seed=/var/lib/cloud/seed/nocloud-net][dsmode=net]. Up 150.00 seconds
Now you can login with user ubuntu and the default password ubuntu and will be asked to choose a new password.
Limitations
USB and PCIe are not supported by the 6.2 kernel. We expect to support these with future kernel revisions.