AGX won't but after jetpack 5.1 update

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson Systems Jetson AGX Orin
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Hi,

I had to update jetpack to 5.1. I used sudo apt dist-upgrade (following How to Install JetPack :: NVIDIA JetPack Documentation)

I had some issues so I had to also do

sudo parted /dev/mmcblk0 -s rm 4
sudo parted /dev/mmcblk0 -s resizepart 3 67.9MB
sudo parted /dev/mmcblk0 mkpart A_reserved_on_user 67.9MB 101MB

After that, everything seemed fine. But When I rebooted, my ORIN won’t boot anymore showing this error message (and inverted colors ) :

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And after that infinit black screen.
I’m completly stuck, how can I solve this? (ideally without having to reflash it and lose everything)

Thank you for your help !

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Hi,

did you re-attempt to upgrade as specified by the document?
Looks like the kernel image is either gone or corrupted, and I think the only way to recover from it is to re-flash your device.

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did you re-attempt to upgrade as specified by the document?

I’m not sure to understand what you mean. I simply followed the chapter 1.3.2. Upgrade JetPack (but I encounter several issue while doing it, so some commands may have been run several time to make them work)

I think the only way to recover from it is to re-flash your device.

This is what I would like to avoid, it will cost me several days to reinstall my complex environement…
How the kernel image could have disappeared with a simple update? Isn’t possible to get another to replace it manually?

Thank you

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Hi,

I mean, did you follow this section in the guide?

Do not reboot the device after running the below command, and before re-attempting the upgrade.

It should be possible, but the issue is that if your rootfs resides in the eMMC on the module, then there is no way to read/write it with another PC. If it’s on an USB drive/NVMe SSD, then you may simply unplug it, find a PC to mount it, and add the missing file back.

Or, if you really want to preserve the data, you may flash the device again with an USB drive/NVMe SSD as the rootfs, login to the system, mount the eMMC, and recover the kernel image.

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No I didn’t reboot after this one, but after having successfully run everything without anymore error.

Note that I had some issue with the parted commands giving errors and that I had to launch some several times, maybe I did a mistake here wich could have erased some data?

Unfortunatly it is.
I don’t really know the procedure to recover the kernel, is it something complex to do?

If I have to, I think I will do a new image on a NVMe this time

Thank you for your help

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Sounds like the case.

If you can flash and login via NVMe/USB drive, then you can directly copy the kernel image and the extlinux folder back to your eMMC. Reboot and select eMMC in UEFI as the booting device.