On 2024-05-11 at 22:35+09:00, Nguyễn Gia Phong wrote:
> [Ubuntu Server's] installer doesn't install bootloader on the eMMC.
>
> Instead of writing the bootloader from StarFive's image, I decided
> to be lazy and just clean up and upgrade StarFive's Debian [1]
> to current Sid.  This, BTW, might have been a mistake, because unlike
> Ubuntu which colaborates with StarFive and applies its patches on
> the current kernel, Debian does not and we are stuck with Linux 6.1.
> For now, it's doing well enough but a reinstall is almost required
> [...]  I will also to convert the file system into Btrfs and set up
> local backup.
>
> 1: https://debian.starfivetech.com

As it turned out, StarFive's kernel doesn't have the Btrfs module
and doing anything with kernels would result in an unbootable disk.

I ended up installing Ubuntu on the NVMe and configuring the SPI flash
to boot from it.