Cannot boot Jetpack 6.1 from SD card

I have a Jetson Orin Nano Dev Kit (Model P3766) with Jetson UEFI Firmware 6.0-37391689. I prepared an SD card with JetPack 6.1 according to the getting started guide.

As soon as the device wants to boot from the SD card i get “L4tLauncher: Attempting Direct Boot” for a few seconds. After that i get multiple lines including an error message (see attached picture) and the fan stops turning. The green light on the board stays on, but i suspect the system freezes since even after multiple minutes nothing happens.

What can I do?

Hello @mroesgen,

Seems to be an issue with the compatibility with the device tree from wha the errors show, which is very interesting.

Did you verify if your Firmware is up to date for JP6 support?

You can do it be following these NVIDIA Docs.

Please let us know how it goes.

regards,
Andrew
Embedded Software Engineer at ProventusNova

I followed the docs closely. As you can see from the screenshot, the firmware is on version 6.0-37391689 which is > 36.3 and up to date for JP6.1 as far as I understand. Or is there more to it than the NVIDIA Docs describe?

@mroesgen,

That is interesting.

Would it be possible for you to flash using the SDK manager instead?

regards,
Andrew
Embedded Software Engineer at ProventusNova

@proventusnova

I tried and it did not solve the problem. As soon as the jetson boots the first time during the flashing process from the SDK manager the same error messages are shown as above.

Would it help to post the logs of the SDK manager?

Could using the Toolchain binaries help?

Try to follow this page to dump the log.

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@WayneWWW

Thank you for getting involved!

Here are the logs I got while booting up when following the video: jetson_logs.txt (134.8 KB)

This time (I dont know why) botting was slightly different in that after the errors mentioned above I was also able to see the output from the attached logfile on my screen (this time the fan kept spinning). See the following photo:


Even with some additional lines that are not in the logs (the ones with [ OK ]). The last line “A start job is …” stayed there for around 10 seconds after which the screen went black and the line 1674 of the logs “[ 102.661589] blk_update_request: …” began. I cut power after around 20 seconds.

I saw the sdcard has I/O error.

Could you try to flash the board +sdcard with the sdkmanager?

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@WayneWWW

I bought a new sdcard, flashed it with etcher and I was able to boot. I already worked a bit with the jetson and everything seems fine. I feel kinda stupid to not try that earlier.

Thank you for your help!

Here are the logs when booting succesfully if anyone ever reading this is interested: jetson_logs2.txt (122.3 KB)

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