Failed to flash Jetson Orin Nano

[lozanomt]

Help, I am trying to flash the Jetson Orin Nano with JP 5.2.1 using the SDK. I had tried previously with the flash.sh command but kept receiving the error “No devices to flash”. I have attached the log from the SDKManager flash attempt.

I have tried multiple machines running Ubuntu 20.04 natively, multiple usb cables, multiple sd cards and yes the board is in recovery mode.

I have had success with multiple other Orin Nano boards but this is the only one that has failed to flash.

SDKM_logs_JetPack_5.1.2_Linux_for_Jetson_Orin_Nano_modules_2024-05-13_11-03-32.zip (1.1 MB)

[DaveYYY]

Hi,

Error: Invalid argument during seek for read on /dev/mmcblk1
[ 9]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: Error: partprobe failed. This indicates that:
 -   the xml indicates the gpt is larger than the device storage
 -   the xml might be invalid
 -   the device might have a problem.
 Please make correction.

Are you using a 64GB SD card?

[lozanomt]

I am using a 32GB card. I will try with a 64GB and get back to you.

[lozanomt]

Tried with a 64GB SD card and received the same error

17:12:41.452 - error: NV_L4T_FLASH_JETSON_LINUX_COMP@JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS: [ 9]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: Error: partprobe failed. This indicates that:
17:12:41.452 - info: Event: NV_L4T_FLASH_JETSON_LINUX_COMP@JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS - error is: [ 9]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: Error: partprobe failed. This indicates that:
17:12:41.453 - info: NV_L4T_FLASH_JETSON_LINUX_COMP@JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS:  -   the xml indicates the gpt is larger than the device storage
17:12:41.453 - info: NV_L4T_FLASH_JETSON_LINUX_COMP@JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS:  -   the xml might be invalid
17:12:41.453 - info: NV_L4T_FLASH_JETSON_LINUX_COMP@JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS:  -   the device might have a problem.
17:12:41.453 - info: NV_L4T_FLASH_JETSON_LINUX_COMP@JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS:  Please make correction.
17:12:41.459 - info: NV_L4T_FLASH_JETSON_LINUX_COMP@JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS: Flash failure
17:12:41.460 - info: NV_L4T_FLASH_JETSON_LINUX_COMP@JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS: Cleaning up...

Full log attached
SDKM_logs_JetPack_5.1.2_Linux_for_Jetson_Orin_Nano_modules_2024-05-14_09-40-17.zip (1.2 MB)

[DaveYYY]

Check this post:

How do I downgrade from Jetpack 6DP to JetPack 5 on Jetson Orin Nano Dev Kit (SD Card)

Hi, As you can see in the help message of flash.sh: -T <ext num sectors> ---The number of the sectors of the external storage device. The default value is 122159104 if this option is not set. , both of your two cards are actually smaller than the required size. You have to manually run scripts instead of SDK Manager to avoid this, and the regular flashing command looks like: sudo ./tools/kernel_flash/l4t_initrd_flash.sh --external-device mmcblk1p1 \ …

[lozanomt]

Thank you, I checked the size of my SD card using fdisk and got the number of sectors, 121503744. I used this value and ran the command:

sudo ./tools/kernel_flash/l4t_initrd_flash.sh --external-device mmcblk1p1 -p "-T 121503744 -c ./bootloader/t186ref/cfg/flash_t234_qspi.xml" -c ./tools/kernel_flash/flash_l4t_external.xml --showlogs --network usb0 jetson-orin-nano-devkit internal

Attached is the log with the same error.
flash_3-4_0_20240514-104327.log (7.5 KB)

[lozanomt]

I think I have a 128GB card around here. I’ll format it and try that.

[lozanomt]

I found a 128GB SD card and found its sector size to be 249737216 blocks using:

sudo fdisk -l

I then formatted the 128GB SD card while I was at it before flashing using the command:

sudo ./tools/kernel_flash/l4t_initrd_flash.sh --external-device mmcblk1p1 \ -p "-T 249737216 -c ./bootloader/t186ref/cfg/flash_t234_qspi.xml" -c ./tools/kernel_flash/flash_l4t_external.xml \ --showlogs --network usb0 jetson-orin-nano-devkit internal

Attached is the successful log:
flash_3-4_0_20240514-110441.log (40.7 KB)

Note: This did not work with any 64GB SD cards I had tried. Recommendation is to get at least a 128 SD card. Its 2024 why don’t we all have 1TB SD cards lying around anyway?

Thank you @DaveYYY for providing the solution.