Flashing Jetson AGX

Hello!

I’m having trouble flashing my Jetson AGX developer kit (model that comes with an SD card slot).

I’m on a windows machine but I have a VM running Ubuntu 18.04 on top that runs the SDK manager. Board is picked up by the VM just fine and the SDK manager launches and registers the board correctly. However, the flash always fails around the 6-7% mark. Below is the log from the terminal during flash.

10:23:57 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 6.7141 ] RCM 0 is saved as rcm_0.rcm
10:23:57 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 6.7376 ] Assuming zero filled SBK key
10:23:57 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 6.7552 ] tegrarcm_v2 --chip 0x19 0 --updatesig rcm_list_signed.xml
10:24:03 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 6.7660 ] tegrarcm_v2 --chip 0x19 0 --rcm rcm_list_signed.xml
10:24:04 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 13.0533 ] tegrarcm_v2 --isapplet
10:24:04 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 13.2872 ] MB2 Applet version 01.00.0000
10:24:05 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 13.6141 ] MB2 Applet version 01.00.0000
10:24:05 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 13.9035 ] MB2 Applet version 01.00.0000
10:24:05 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 14.3759 ] Saved platform info in chip_info.bin
10:24:05 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 14.5709 ] Chip Sample: non es
10:24:06 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 14.8027 ] tegrarcm_v2 --oem platformdetails eeprom cvb /home/user/nvidia/nvidia_sdk/JetPack_5.0.1_DP_Linux_JETSON_AGX_XAVIER_TARGETS/Linux_for_Tegra/bootloader/bbd.bin
10:24:06 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 14.8062 ] MB2 Applet version 01.00.0000
10:24:06 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 15.2153 ] Saved platform info in /home/user/nvidia/nvidia_sdk/JetPack_5.0.1_DP_Linux_JETSON_AGX_XAVIER_TARGETS/Linux_for_Tegra/bootloader/bbd.bin
10:24:07 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 15.6304 ] tegrarcm_v2 --ismb2
10:24:07 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 15.8487 ] MB2 Applet version 01.00.0000
10:24:09 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: [ 16.4678 ]
10:24:09 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: Parsing baseboard EEPROM:
10:24:09 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: --- Parsing board ID (2822) succeeded.
10:24:09 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: --- Parsing board version (700) succeeded.
10:24:09 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: --- Parsing board SKU (0000) succeeded.
10:24:09 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: --- Parsing board REV (L.0) succeeded.
10:24:09 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: Parsing module EEPROM:
10:24:09 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: "/home/user/nvidia/nvidia_sdk/JetPack_5.0.1_DP_Linux_JETSON_AGX_XAVIER_TARGETS/Linux_for_Tegra/flash.sh" jetson-agx-xavier-devkit mmcblk0p1
10:24:09 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: # L4T BSP Information:
10:24:09 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: ###############################################################################
10:24:10 INFO: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: USB port and is in recovery mode.
10:24:10 ERROR: Flash Jetson AGX Xavier - flash: command terminated with error
10:24:10 SUMMARY: DateTime Target Setup - target: Depends on failed component

My theory is that there is some issue where the board is not in recovery mode even though I follow all the hardware steps to set it as such (hold recovery button, hold power button, release). Any ideas as to what is causing this flash to fail? Is there another method I can use to flash?

Hi,
From the log, you are flashing 5.0.1DP. Please try 4.6.1 to check if the issue is specific to 5.0.1DP. For better stability we suggest use Jetpack 4 releases.

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