Can we flash os image into NVME with the script ./nvmassflashgen.sh?

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Xavier NX
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Hi, my environment is L4T 32.7.3, and Xavier NX 8GB SOM.

I have success flash image into Xavier NX emmc with these commands:

sudo ./nvmassflashgen.sh jetson-xavier-nx-devkit-emmc mmcblk0p1
tar xvjf mfi_jetson-xavier-nx-devkit-emmc.tbz2
sudo ./nvmflash.sh --showlogs

But I want to flash image into M.2 NVME instead of emmc.
What should I do?
In order to protect our code, Can I use this massflash method to flash image in NVME?

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Hi,

massflash on r32 only supports flashing into eMMC, so please upgrade to r35 if you need to flash into NVMe SSD.

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Hi,DaveYYY,
Thank for yout reply,
But we must use r32.7.3 now,

I use this method to flash rootfs in my NVME, and it was success.

But when I power up the board, it cannot find nvme device in cboot.
Here is the log:
cboot无法识别到nvme盘.log (40.3 KB)

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Hi,

did you modify /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf to designate where the rootfs resides?

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I haven’ t did that.

This is my extlinux file :

root@tegra-ubuntu:~# cat /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
TIMEOUT 30
DEFAULT primary

MENU TITLE L4T boot options

LABEL primary
      MENU LABEL primary kernel
      LINUX /boot/Image
      INITRD /boot/initrd
      APPEND ${cbootargs} root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw rootwait rootfstype=ext4 console=ttyTCU0,115200n8 console=tty0 fbcon=map:0 net.ifnames=0 

# When testing a custom kernel, it is recommended that you create a backup of
# the original kernel and add a new entry to this file so that the device can
# fallback to the original kernel. To do this:
#
# 1, Make a backup of the original kernel
#      sudo cp /boot/Image /boot/Image.backup
#
# 2, Copy your custom kernel into /boot/Image
#
# 3, Uncomment below menu setting lines for the original kernel
#
# 4, Reboot

# LABEL backup
#    MENU LABEL backup kernel
#    LINUX /boot/Image.backup
#    INITRD /boot/initrd
#    APPEND ${cbootargs}

And my devices works fine in the system.

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 8541A5EE-9A84-4CCE-88E2-100E21F1CEF6

Device         Start      End  Sectors  Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 65535 31260194 31194660 14.9G Linux filesystem
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Hi,

then it’s totally expected that it won’t boot from your NVMe drive,
please change this

root=/dev/mmcblk0p1

to this

root=/dev/nvme0n1p1

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Thank you for help! Now I can boot from nvme.
Can we change this extlinux.conf parameter automatic in the system?
Or Can we manual choose the root before I flash image?

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Hi,

No, you have to do it manually.

I think that’s feasible but a bit dangerous, because if the flash to NVMe drives fails, you will also lose the chance to boot into eMMC. So you’d better uncomment the backup label when doing so.

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Hi, DaveYYY,
How can I change root parameter in extlinux.conf before I flash image?

I can’t find ‘root=/dev/mmcblk0p1’ in the rootfs/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf

vim rootfs/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf

TIMEOUT 30
DEFAULT primary

MENU TITLE L4T boot options

LABEL primary
      MENU LABEL primary kernel
      LINUX /boot/Image
      INITRD /boot/initrd
      APPEND ${cbootargs}
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You think just do it when you are on the eMMC, do the change, shutdown, and flash your NVMe drive.

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The change has to be done on the file that is already on your device, but not in the BSP that you are going to flash.

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I want to change extlinux.conf parameter “root=/dev/mmcblk0p1” to “root=/dev/nvme0n1p1”
Before I flash image into Xavier NX emmc.
Can we do that?

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Can you get it?

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I get it. And I know it will work

fine.
But I just attempt to ask if there has any more convienient way, like do this change before flash image.
If we cannot do it , that is ok.
Thank you!

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