An hour or two ago I received a brand new Jetson Orin Nano along with brand new SD micro cards. I perfectly and faithfully followed the instructions found at Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit Getting Started | NVIDIA Developer to set up my brand new SBC. After plugging in everything and applying power to the SBC from the supplied power supply, the green LED next to the USB-C receptacle turned on and the LEDs on the Ethernet connector began flashing. Some number of seconds later an NVIDIA themed splash screen showed up on my monitor.
A few seconds later, the splash screen disappears and the monitor goes dark. Before disappearing in the center of the screen is written something that is meaningless to me:
*** WARNING: Test Key Is Used. ***
L4TLauncher: Attempting Recovery Boot
After those cryptic messages disappear and the screen goes black the following happens…
Okay, nothing happens. The SBC does nothing except generate heat.
Are there some working instructions I can try, instead?
Enter UEFI Menu: If the device fails to boot into the root filesystem for three consecutive times, it will go into recovery boot. You can recover from this by entering the UEFI menu:
Press ESC to enter the UEFI Menu.
Choose Device Manager → NVIDIA Configuration → L4T Configuration → OS chain A status.
The Jetson Orin Nano (JON) will not respond to any stimuli. I can hit every key on the keyboard I want and I receive no response. I even tried to move the keyboard and mouse to a different USB port. I still receive no response from the JON.
I have since tried to download and execute whatever 5.X.Y version of JetPack I could score and I received the same response and the JON still does not respond to my keyboard.
By the way, I am typing this reply using the very same keyboard my brand new JON is ignoring.
I now have the JON connected to my Windows 11 laptop via serial port and I have access to the Bash shell. I am not the least familiar with bash shells, but it seems to provide a basic and somewhat familiar Linux Command Line Interface (CLI).
Is it possible to make the changes you recommended via the Bash shell?
Is it possible to enable SSH via the Bash shell?
Is it possible to set up the Wi-Fi interface via the Bash shell?
I discovered I was able to use the serial console to press the escape key and I was able to apply your suggestions. I am writing this reply via my new JON.
Thanks for checking back! Thanks to some instruction from AminAlaghband I can successfully boot into Ubuntu.
I am using a Dell wireless keyboard and mouse combo to access my JON (single USB dongle to wirelessly connect the keyboard and mouse to my JON).
When at the startup splash screen, I tried to use the keyboard to press Esc or F11 or Enter or anything, but my JON ignored the keyboard(?!?!). I swapped over most of the connections to my personal laptop and, using a USB-TTL serial cable and TeraTerm (I do not care for PuTTy), I was able to access the serial console. After fiddling in the dark for a while, I discovered that when attempting to boot up my JON, I was able to send to my JON an Esc keypress through my serial cable, which executed the UEFI utility (?) and finally enabled me to execute AminAlaghband’s instructions.
After re-swapping over all my connections I was able to boot into the Ubuntu GUI!
Connecting the USB to TTY serial cable to the serial console header of the SOM is an unnecessary challenge to somebody in his 50’s.
I have Jetpack 6.0 on a different SD micro card. I am considering re-attempting all this with the Jetpack 6.0 card.
For the first boot, you might need to connect a monitor and mouse/keyboard to configure the system configurations(OEM config).
Serial console could help you know what it is happening inside.
I don’t think you need that and press ESC to enter into UEFI menu if you just want to boot up and use Jetson device.
I had a mouse and keyboard connected and I had a monitor connected. The Jetson did not respond to the keyboard. The Jetson only responded to the serial cable.
Everything works now.