Encrypted ssd nvme on Jetson Orin NX

Subject: Issue with Jetson Orin NX Encrypted NVMe — No Passphrase Prompt During Boot

Hi everyone,

Sorry if I didn’t explain it clearly before — I’m trying to get the attention of the support specialists. Over the past month, I’ve read a lot on the topic of disk encryption for Jetson:

All the keys have already been generated, the password/key bindings are configured, and the firmware build and flashing process complete successfully. However, the boot process stops without asking for a passphrase.

The SSD partition itself is definitely encrypted — I verified it by connecting the drive directly to the host.

The flashing is performed using the following command:

sudo ROOTFS_ENC=1 ./tools/kernel_flash/l4t_initrd_flash.sh \
–external-device nvme0n1p1 \
-c ./tools/kernel_flash/flash_l4t_t234_nvme_rootfs_enc.xml \
-S 715GiB \
–external-only \
–network usb0 \
–flash-only \
jetson-orin-nano-devkit external

I’m attaching the flashing logs.
I would really appreciate any help or suggestions.

Thanks in advance!

load.log (38.4 KB)

flash_1-7_0_20251030-162229.log (109.4 KB)