Can a dev kit Jetson Nano -A02 boot from NVMe on this carrier board?

[rmann]

I got a SeeedStudio A203v2 carrier board that has an NVMe M.2 slot on it (as well as the WiFi M.2 slot). I have a Jetson Nano 180-13448-DAAA-A02. Can it boot from the NVMe if I flash the Jetson Nano SD card image to the NVMe?

For that matter, can it boot from USB?

Update: I tried booting the Nvidia Jetson Nano dev kit board from USB, and it just dropped into a shell after writing a few log lines, including “imx219_board_setup: error during i2c read probe” and “board setup failed.” Then it dropped into a shell. I figure there’s probably a way to configure it to look at for NVMe, USB, and SD Card, in that order, but I don’ t know enough about Linux to figure that out myself.

[WayneWWW]

Hi,

Generally, a serial console log is needed when checking boot from external drive issue.

Jetson Nano Style - Serial Console - JetsonHacks

And back to your question. Is the board vendor providing the schematic of that carrier board?
If they didn’t provide, then I think that M.2 key M slot may not work on jetson nano. As jetson nano’s PCIe lanes are not sufficient to support one M.2 key E and one M.2 key M at same time.

Only Orin/TX2/Xavier have sufficient PCIe to support it.

One more thing to noted. A02 module is a very early one and most of custom board is for B01 module.

[rmann]

Okay, maybe I should just return this carrier board then. Sigh.

I don’t suppose Nvidia would replace my Nano for a newer one, would they?

I am not using key E at all, should it work with just the key M?

[rmann]

Oh! I just saw this note on their product page:

When using Jetson Nano, the M.2 KEY E cannot work but instead, M.2 KEY M could.

I don’t currently care about key E, so that should be okay, yes? Although maybe not for my early module?

[WayneWWW]

Yes, if they said so, then you can use NVMe on it.