Hi Lennart, thank you for your help. I found the issue, it is a mismatch between the compiler or libc used for the kernel and the systemd/mount executables. Difference not declared, I managed by accident to find the right cross-compiler. On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 10:57 AM Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mi, 05.07.23 07:59, Giacinto Cifelli (gciofono@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > I have then increased the log level to debug in the kernel cmdline to > > have more info: > > systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=console > > > > and with these settings it boots normally (although much slower). > > output to console is generally much slower. maybe use kmsg instead, or > don't do debug level stuff for now, boot into single user mode only. > > It's usually a good idea to start with saying which systemd version it > is btw, and which distro. it is an out-of-tree debian 11, for VisionFive2, a 4-core riscv (with isa rv64imafdc). It uses: systemd 252 (252.4-1) +PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +APPARMOR +IMA +SMACK +SECCOMP +GCRYPT -GNUTLS +OPENSSL +ACL +BLKID +CURL +ELFUTILS +FIDO2 +IDN2 -IDN +IPTC +KMOD +LIBCRYPTSETUP +LIBFDISK +PCRE2 -PWQUALITY +P11KIT +QRENCODE +TPM2 +BZIP2 +LZ4 +XZ +ZLIB +ZSTD -BPF_FRAMEWORK -XKBCOMMON +UTMP +SYSVINIT default-hierarchy=unified > > Also: > > https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/#diagnosingbootproblems > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering, Berlin thanks again - Giacinto, Spandau