Booting from SD / Upgrading Advantech MIC-710AIX (Jetson Xavier NX) to Ubuntu 20 + Jetpack 5

[andrew44]

I’m starting to lose my mind a little, help is appreciated.

I am working with an Advantech MIC-710AIX, link to specs below.

MIC-710AIX

Goal: I am trying to boot from an SD card and upgrade from Ubuntu 18/JetPack 4 to Ubuntu 20/JetPack 5. Ultimately I don’t care about how I execute the upgrade, but am trying to do it by SD card right now.

Situation: I am confident that I have successfully downloaded the JetPack 5.1.1 image and correctly burned it to the SD card. I used Rufus for this. My understanding is that the next step from here is to boot from the SD card, which I cannot get to work.

I cannot seem to find a coherent and simple explanation for how to instruct the device to boot from the SD card. There is no apparent boot menu option at the firmware level. Some of the links say to edit the extlinux.conf, changing from /dev/mmcblk0p1 to /dev/mmcblk1p1. This does not work for me. After rebooting I get faults and the device is software bricked and I have to do a full factory reset back to the base image. Perhaps this is actually working, that I am booting from the SD card, and it is the SD card that is the actual problem.

The prompt I see is:

[15.86] cgroup: cgroup2: unknocn option “nsdelegate”
[16.38] systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
[FAILED] Failed to start OP-TEE Client Supplicant.
[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
[FAILED] Failed to start OP-TEE Client Supplicant.
[FAILED] Failed to start Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System.
[FAILED] Failed to start Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System.
[FAILED] Failed to start Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System.
[FAILED] Failed to start Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System.
[FAILED] Failed to start Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System.
[FAILED] Failed to start Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System.
[64.691] random: crng init done
[64.692] random: 7 urandom warning(s) missed due to ratelimiting
[FAILED] Failed to start nvpmodel service.
[FAILED] Failed to start Configure USB flashing port for device mode.
[83.44] Please complete system configuration setup on the serial port provided by Jetson’s USB device mode connection. e.g. /dev/ttyUSBx where x can 0, 1, 2 etc.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

[WayneWWW]

First, what you are doing is a blind debug, you don’t know what log shows there because you are not using the correct way.
If Advantech board has UART pin out left there, use it to dump log.

Below is the devkit case:

Jetson Nano & NX Style - Serial Debug Console - JetsonHacks

Second, it is normal that system will get stuck in the first boot up. It is waiting for you to configure the user account so that it will proceed booting.
I guess you previously did that by configure the user account on the desktop GUI, but if desktop gui fails to show up on screen, you could use the method as this line tells.

[83.44] Please complete system configuration setup on the serial port provided by Jetson’s USB device mode connection. e.g. /dev/ttyUSBx where x can 0, 1, 2 etc.

Please connect the flash port to your host PC and configure user account from host PC.