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mode. That has also made it much more difficult because it means I
have to have a sighted person here to help me install/break/reinstall
various packages.
Upon examining the two debian images I tried to boot I realized
that
the netinst is grub based so wouldn't boot. The dvd however does
appear to be u-boot based so I am still at a loss for the reason it
won't boot.
I don't really understand the booting mechanism of u-boot,
even
after
reading what I've been able to find.
Anyway, the spacemit is an 8-core SOC called K1X I believe. The
processor is a M1-8571. Here is the cpu line from dmesg on the system:
spacemit-socinfo soc:socinfo@0: Spacemit: CPU[M1-8571] REV[C]
DRO[127] Detected
So thank you and if you have any other recommendations I would
appreciate them.
€€ €€Kirk
On Thu, 11 Sep 2025, Greg Sterling wrote:
> Hello!
>
> My boss thought I might be able to get you contact with the
devboards community for help. €€If you€€€re interested, you might be able to
get some help by sending an email to devboard-community@riscv.org. €€There are a
lot
of helpful people out there who may have experienced similar problems and
may
be able to offer some help or suggestions.
>
> Thanks and have a great day!
>
> Greg Sterling (RISC-V International)
> Phone: +1 603 321 7320
> E-mail: greg@riscv.org
>
>> On Sep 10, 2025, at 8:04€€€PM, Jeff Scheel <jeff@riscv.org> wrote:
>>
>> You might want to try and connect with Kirk with the DevBoard
community to see €€if someone can help here...
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Scheel (he/him/his)
>> Director of Technical Programs, RISC-V International
>>
>> Join me at RISC-V Summit NA (link <https://events.linuxfoundation.org/ris
v-summit/>)
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Lucy Mielke <lucymi
lke@icloud.com <mailto:lucymielke@
icloud.com>>
>> Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 4:40€€€PM
>> Subject: Re: Deep Computing DC-ROMA ii won't boot
>> To: Kirk Reiser <kirk@reisers.ca <mailto:kirk@reisers.ca>>
>> Cc: <debian
boot@lists.debian.org <mailto:
debian-boot@lists.debian.org>>, <debian-riscv@lists.debian.org <mailto:debian-riscv@lists.debian.org>>, <ellie@ravensong.ca <
mailto:ellie@ravensong.ca>>, <kirk@reisers.ca <mailto:kirk@reisers.ca>>
>>
>>
>> Good evening Mr. Reiser,
>>
>> unfortunately, DeepComputing hasn't released any
downloadable images, or documentation regarding the boot process.
>>
>> The description for your issue makes me believe that the
FML13V03 board (your DC-ROMA gen II model) probably needs something like
u-boot, similar to the FML13V01 board (the previous revision).
>>
>> That would explain why the two "generic" Debian images
won't boot once flashed on any medium. AFAIK, the Gen II model is not
supported by Debian yet either. Hopefully we can, once documentation and
hardware is more readily
available.
>>
>> Have you tried what distro DeepComputing shipped with the
device
(if they did)? If so, what CPU name is reported by fastfetch/neofetch/System
Info under Settings?
>>
>> That info might possibly be able to clear up some stuff, and
open the door to another port.
>>
>>
>> Thanks and best regards,
>> Lucy Mielke
>>
>>> Am 10.09.2025 um 22:03 schrieb Kirk Reiser <kirk@reisers.ca <mailto:
kirk@reisers.ca>>:
>>>
>>> €€€Hello folks: I have tried to boot with the CD image and
the netinst
>>> images on my dc-roma ii laptop computer with no luck. I
would
>>> certainly appreciate any clews or suggestions people could
provide
>>> me. In both cases the machine acts like the images are not
even
>>> there. I have dd'd the images to an sdcard because
that
seems to be
>>> the only choice available other than the built-in nvme
drive.
>>>
>>> The images I've attempted to boot from are:
>>> debian-testing-riscv64-DVD-1.iso
>>> debian-testing-riscv64-netinst.iso
>>>
>>> Thank you for your consideration.
>>> €€Kirk
>>>
>>
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