StarFive VisionFive 2 kernel update and boot errors

Hello everyone,
So I've been using the slarm64-current-riscv64-xfce-visionfive_2-6.1.56-build-20231008.img image on my VisionFive 2 and in terms of getting it to run it works. However I've been trying to update the Kernel to the provided 6.5.5 packages (or the official repository kernel packages which seems to be a bad idea). However everytime I touch the kernel in any way the system stops booting with the following error messages:
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Loading Environment from SPIFlash... SF: Detected gd25lq128 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 16 MiB *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment StarFive EEPROM format v2 --------EEPROM INFO-------- Vendor : StarFive Technology Co., Ltd. Product full SN: VF7110B1-2253-D008E000-00004122 data version: 0x2 PCB revision: 0xb2 BOM revision: A Ethernet MAC0 address: 6c:cf:39:00:43:90 Ethernet MAC1 address: 6c:cf:39:00:43:91 --------EEPROM INFO-------- In: serial@10000000 Out: serial@10000000 Err: serial@10000000 Model: StarFive VisionFive V2 Net: eth0: ethernet@16030000, eth1: ethernet@16040000 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1 is current device found device 1 bootmode flash device 1 Can't set block device Failed to load '/boot/uEnv.txt' Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 Can't set block device Importing environment from mmc1 ... ## Warning: Input data exceeds 1048576 bytes - truncated ## Info: input data size = 1048578 = 0x100002 ** Invalid partition 2 ** Couldn't find partition mmc 1:2 Can't set block device ## Warning: defaulting to text format ## Error: "boot2" not defined switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1 is current device Scanning mmc 1:3... Found U-Boot script /boot.scr 2846 bytes read in 7 ms (396.5 KiB/s) ## Executing script at 43900000 Boot script loaded from mmc 1:3 141 bytes read in 6 ms (22.5 KiB/s) Failed to load '/dtb/starfive/jh7110-visionfive-v2.dtb' 20244992 bytes read in 869 ms (22.2 MiB/s) libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC Failed to load '/dtb/starfive/overlay/starfive-fixup.scr' 10654142 bytes read in 457 ms (22.2 MiB/s) Moving Image from 0x44000000 to 0x40200000, end=415d5000 ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 48100000 ... Image Name: uInitrd Image Type: RISC-V Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 10654078 Bytes = 10.2 MiB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK ERROR: Did not find a cmdline Flattened Device Tree Could not find a valid device tree SCRIPT FAILED: continuing... ** Bad partition specification mmc 1:3:3 ** Couldn't find partition mmc 1:3:3 ** Bad partition specification mmc 1:3:3 ** Couldn't find partition mmc 1:3:3 ** Bad partition specification mmc 1:3:3 ** Couldn't find partition mmc 1:3:3 ** Bad partition specification mmc 1:3:3 ** Couldn't find partition mmc 1:3:3 ** Bad partition specification mmc 1:3:3 ** Couldn't find partition mmc 1:3:3 ** Bad partition specification mmc 1:3:3 ** Couldn't find partition mmc 1:3:3 libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110 ** File not found ubootefi.var ** Failed to load EFI variables ** Bad partition specification mmc 1:3:3 ** Couldn't find partition mmc 1:3:3 ethernet@16030000 Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete..... done BOOTP broadcast 1 BOOTP broadcast 2 BOOTP broadcast 3 DHCP client bound to address 192.168.178.31 (763 ms) Using ethernet@16030000 device TFTP from server 192.168.178.1; our IP address is 192.168.178.31 Filename 'boot.scr.uimg'. Load address: 0x88100000 Loading: * TFTP server died; starting again BOOTP broadcast 1 DHCP client bound to address 192.168.178.31 (89 ms) Using ethernet@16030000 device TFTP from server 192.168.178.1; our IP address is 192.168.178.31 Filename 'boot.scr.uimg'. Load address: 0x44000000 Loading: * TFTP server died; starting again StarFive # boot Can't set block device Importing environment from mmc1:3 ... ## Error: Environment import failed: errno = 12 ** Invalid partition 2 ** Couldn't find partition mmc 1:2 Can't set block device ## Warning: defaulting to text format ## Error: "boot2" not defined switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1 is current device ** Bad device specification mmc 1:3 ** ** Bad partition specification mmc 1:3:1 ** Couldn't find partition mmc 1:3:1 BOOTP broadcast 1 DHCP client bound to address 192.168.178.31 (6 ms) Using ethernet@16030000 device TFTP from server 192.168.178.1; our IP address is 192.168.178.31 Filename 'boot.scr.uimg'. Load address: 0x88100000 Loading: * TFTP server died; starting again BOOTP broadcast 1 DHCP client bound to address 192.168.178.31 (67 ms) Using ethernet@16030000 device TFTP from server 192.168.178.1; our IP address is 192.168.178.31 Filename 'boot.scr.uimg'. Load address: 0x44000000 Loading: * TFTP server died; starting again StarFive #

Now what I did was I've installed the new packages from the mirror for VisionFive 2 and rebuild the Uinitrd using the initrd script in /boot/
I did check all the symlinks in /boot and they looked fine, only difference I could find was between /boot/dtbs/ and the corresponding kernel version directories which had a different layout and different files.
Now I have two questions regarding this:
1.) is there any documentation on the correct procedure for this board so I don't have to run with a trial and error approach in the future :study:
2.) is there a way to save my installation? :doh:

Sorry for acting a bit like a dummy here, but it's a bit difficult to find the right way to treat this board and the current builds ^^'
I've also blacklisted the kernel packages in slackpkg thinking it could help to mitigate this error since slackpkg and the riscv64 repositories have no concept of the VisionFive 2 kernel build I think

kind regards,
DesRoin