Unable to view the boot console on starfive Visionfive2 with Fedora 42

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I have Fedora 42 Installed on Starfive Visionfive2 hardware, I have updated the uboot stored in QSPI NOR Flash using instructions

During boot i don’t see any console messages (HDMI monitor). Though i am able to connect to the board using ssh.

Default /etc/default/grub is as follows:

GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=true
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="earlycon rootflags=subvol=root "
GRUB_GFXMODE=auto
GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT="serial"
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="serial"
GRUB_TIMEOUT=3
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
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Hey, @mrniranjan! A quick meta-comment: I don’t have a VisionFive2 myself, but feel free to hop on to the Fedora RISC-V Matrix channel, there are more folks with that hardware that can help out :slight_smile:

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So, I was told by on the Matrix channel that it’s expected, as there’s HDMI yet in the mainline kernel. And it’s not yet smoothly working on any other board either.

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