Okay sorry, you know what ! I am going to do it tonight on my machine, get it working a 100% and then give you the solution. This needs to be easy for everyone.
Franco
Oh no! No hurry, please, not to the detriment of health. BPI isn’t going anywhere 
Okay I’m sorry I did not fix this sooner.
I was pointing to the wrong image to burn to the NVME.
Use this image, https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/noble/release/ubuntu-24.04-preinstalled-server-riscv64.img.xz
And use the default initrd.
So sorry for my mistakes.
Franco
thank you very much. Will test it!You’re very welcome. I’m so sorry that I messed up the docs from the beginning. I’ve updated my github page link to download the correct image.
Thanks for your patience. Framco
No problet at all ant thanks a lot for your approach, now I can easily transfer Bianbu NAS from here and run it from my NVMe. Hooray!!!
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That’s awesome. I am pretty sure I also had the desktop version running too but I will need to back through my notes and see what I did.
I’ve been working so much on custom bootloaders, learning more about syslinux, extlinux, u-boot and how it works, device trees(dtb) I’ve been trying to make it so the installer is much easier.
Plus I have a Sipeed Lichee Pi 4a Book Laptop which I just got and trying to get the same thing working on that and documenting everything as I go.
Let’s just say support for these new boards isn’t the greatest. Anyway off to learning more about custom u-boot… Franco
Yeah, looks like that interesting SBCs and laptops and other gadgets are mostly for internal sells, so maybe docs are stored behind the chinese firewall in chinese language
Wow, it loosk interesting with modular SOM design
Thanks anyway for your help, now I can test all available RISCV firmwares for that BPI-F3 from my NVMe!
That’s cool. Basically this should work with other Linux RISC-V versions. I was going to try it with others but I bricked my laptop trying to modify it the same way.
That’s a long story in itself. Hope to have an update on that soon. Franco
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Hi @Franco_Gaetan ,
Great Work!
As I understand, this is actually a way to boot ubuntu 24.04 in Banana Pi F3. I would like to flash my sd card with ubuntu 24.04 and want to be able to boot from it instead of NVMe. What should I do for that?
your link to ubuntu image is dead, and link for bianbu image in your github is wrong (points to md5 file, not the zip file). please do not link ubuntu download link directly. Instead, link to download page with appropriate directions.
hello, friend, can you send the link that you mentioned was broken, please? we will check it, thank you
the official image are on the Banana Pi docs :
broken links in question:
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/noble/release/ubuntu-24.04-live-server-riscv64.img.gz
Your image is here.