I just bought a NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit. I installed this SSD:
Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1TB Samsung V NAND TLC NAND PCIe Gen 4 x4 and PCIe Gen 5 x2 NVMe M.2 Internal SSD
I am trying to flash Jetpack to the NVMe. I have SDK Manager running on Ubuntu 22.04.5 from a Live USB. The host computer has a 1TB HDD with 660GB free, and I selected that for jetpack file downloading.
When I start the install I get this error message (see picture). I don’t see /cow anywhere, and all my drives have adequate free space (except the live USB).
Does anyone have any ideas what is wrong, or what I might do to fix this?
Also, does anyone know where the log file is located?
I tried using a live USB to flash it, but that failed—and I didn’t have the patience to keep troubleshooting.
Then I found a small SSD and installed Ubuntu 22 on my mini PC. Using the native Ubuntu 22 Desktop, I was finally able to flash it successfully.
I had tried several different approaches, including using a VM and a live USB, but all of them resulted in errors.
Hi DavidDDD, I spent over a week with a native Ubuntu 20.04 PC attempting to install Jetpack 5 and 6 to an Orin Nano Super Devkit using SDK Manager as well as the recommended script that uses l4t_initrd_flash.sh, to no avail. Please see my post and what I assume is the not recommended solution that worked for me. I do realize that some people have had luck (literally, luck) building up a brand new Linux install and then having the flash process work. — But I wish there was a better explanation as to how to reliably flash a Jetson Orin Nano. ALSO, isn’t using the NVIDIA SDK Manager within a WSL2 environment now officially supported? It seems like a WSL2 environment is even less native than running from USB.
Hi Sandy, there are two places to get the logs – one is the link that is shown in the SDK Manager after it fails – which I think you’d have to “Continue” to force it to that point. The other log that is usually more informative is the one that is generated on the Jetson device itself. You need a UART-to-USB cable like this: Amazon.com: DGZZI PL2303TA Debug Console Cable 1PC PL2303TA USB to TTL Serial Cable for Raspberry Pi : Electronics and a TTY terminal program running on a PC to listen to/log the debug output. FWIW, I was able to finally get my kit flashed and running from SD Card, but not NVMe using the method that I linked to elsewhere in this thread. I am now working on transplanting that SD Card install to NVMe.
