Booting from Network without hard-drive

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Thor
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Hello everybody,

I have a question regarding the usage of the Jetson AGX Thor without a hard-drive (neither M.2 NVMe nor USB SSD). Is it possible to use the Jetson AGX Thor in this configuration and boot it exclusively over Network? Or is some kind of hard-drive required for the Jetson AGX Thor module to work?

Best,

Gerrit

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There is no eMMC on module, so the external storage is mandatory.

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So there is no possibility to boot from network without external storage? Is apart of the bootloader or firmware stored on the external storage?

Also, then the Jetson AGX Thor is not compatible with Carrier-Boards of Jetson AGX Orin, which have no additional storage options?

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Hi ggrutzeck,

The bootchain is stored in the internal QSPI inside the module.
You can refer to Flashing for NFS as Root to use NFS as the rootfs for your use case.

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Thanks. That document looks interesting. I think the Configuring a PXE Boot Server for UEFI bootloader on Jetson part of the document describes my application even better :up

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Okay, please also refer to that part in developer guide for PXE boot.