Flashing to nvme installation error

Hey all!

Very excited to have gotten started tinkering with my Jetson Orin Nano.

I’m trying to get everything installed from my newly created workstation (Ubuntu 22.04) to my Jetson Orin Nano (8GB developer kit) using the Nvidia SDK manager.

Unfortunately, after several attempts I persistently run into the same installation error.

2:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: Copied 67024 bytes from /mnt/internal/nvpva_020_aligned_blob_w_bin_sigheader.fw.encrypt to address 0x03d30000 in flash
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: [ 228]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: Warning: skip writing B_reserved_on_boot partition as no image is specified
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: [ 228]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: Warning: skip writing uefi_variables partition as no image is specified
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: [ 228]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: Warning: skip writing uefi_ftw partition as no image is specified
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: [ 228]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: Warning: skip writing reserved partition as no image is specified
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: [ 228]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: Warning: skip writing worm partition as no image is specified
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: Writing bct_backup.img (parittion: BCT-boot-chain_backup) into /dev/mtd0
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: Sha1 checksum matched for /mnt/internal/bct_backup.img
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: Writing /mnt/internal/bct_backup.img (32768 bytes) into /dev/mtd0:66715648
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: Copied 32768 bytes from /mnt/internal/bct_backup.img to address 0x03fa0000 in flash
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: Writing gpt_backup_secondary_3_0.bin (parittion: secondary_gpt_backup) into /dev/mtd0
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: Sha1 checksum matched for /mnt/internal/qspi_bootblob_ver.txt
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: Writing /mnt/internal/qspi_bootblob_ver.txt (109 bytes) into /dev/mtd0:66912256
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: Copied 109 bytes from /mnt/internal/qspi_bootblob_ver.txt to address 0x03fd0000 in flash
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: Writing /mnt/internal/gpt_secondary_3_0.bin (16896 bytes) into /dev/mtd0:67091968
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: Copied 16896 bytes from /mnt/internal/gpt_secondary_3_0.bin to address 0x03ffbe00 in flash
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: [ 229]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: Successfully flash the qspi
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: [ 229]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: The device size indicated in the partition layout xml is smaller than the actual size. This utility will try to fix the GPT.
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: [ 229]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: Error flashing external device
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: Flash failure
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: Either the device cannot mount the NFS server on the host or a flash command has failed. Check your network setting (VPN, firewall,...) to make sure the device can mount NFS server. Debug log saved to /tmp/tmp.AsjKmKBC7m. You can access the target's terminal through "sshpass -p root ssh root@fc00:1:1:0::2"
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: Cleaning up...
22:45:16 ERROR: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: [exec_command]: /bin/bash -c /home/kieran/.nvsdkm/replays/scripts/JetPack_6.2_Linux/NV_L4T_FLASH_JETSON_LINUX_COMP.sh; [error]: rpcbind: another rpcbind is already running. Aborting
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: [ Component Install Finished with Error ]
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: [host] [ 4.94 MB used. Disk Avail on Partition /dev/nvme0n1p3: 152.64 GB ]
22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: [ NV_L4T_FLASH_JETSON_LINUX_COMP Install took 9m56s ]
22:45:16 ERROR: command error code: 11
22:45:16 ERROR: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: command terminated with error
22:45:16 SUMMARY: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: First Error: Installation failed.
22:45:16 SUMMARY: Multimedia API - target: Depends on failed component
22:45:16 SUMMARY: TensorRT Runtime - target: Depends on failed component
22:45:16 SUMMARY: CUDA Runtime - target: Depends on failed component
22:45:16 SUMMARY: CuDNN Runtime - target: Depends on failed component
22:45:16 SUMMARY: OpenCV Runtime - target: Depends on failed component
22:45:16 SUMMARY: CuPVA Runtime - target: Depends on failed component
22:45:16 SUMMARY: VPI Runtime - target: Depends on failed component
22:45:16 SUMMARY: NVIDIA Container Runtime with Docker integration (Beta) - target: Depends on failed component
22:45:16 SUMMARY: Gstreamer - target: Depends on failed component
22:45:16 SUMMARY: DLA Compiler - target: Depends on failed component
22:45:16 SUMMARY: DateTime Target Setup - target: Depends on failed component

I have no idea where to even begin debugging this, and would rally appreciate your help.

I got this Nvme drive out of an old laptop. It probably had stuff on it, and a partition table, but I assume the Jetson installation process would clear all that beforehand to install everything fresh. Could that be a problem?

Thx!

-Wes

Hi,

Some questions to confirm

  • Is your ubuntu 22.04 a native or virtual machine (e.g. VMware)
  • Do you format your NVMe to ext4 before flashing?
  • Please attach a full log by pressing the EXPORT LOGS button in sdk manager.

Thanks

  • It is native 22.04
  • I have not formatted the drive before flashing. Is there a way / command I could use to do that while the drive is in the Jetson?

Hi,

Some instructions like below could format the storage.

sudo mkfs.ext4 ${YOUR_DEVICE}

Also I noticed the log

22:45:16 INFO: Flash Jetson Linux - flash: Either the device cannot mount the NFS server on the host or a flash command has failed. Check your network setting (VPN, firewall,...) to make sure the device can mount NFS server. Debug log saved to /tmp/tmp.AsjKmKBC7m. You can access the target's terminal through "sshpass -p root ssh root@fc00:1:1:0::2"

Please execute below commands to disable the firewall

sudo ufw disable

Thanks

SDKM_logs_JetPack_6.2_Linux_for_Jetson_Orin_Nano_[8GB_developer_kit_version]_2025-02-23_22-33-16.zip (238.0 KB)

Here are my full logs :)

Hi,

Thanks for your attach.
Please format the NVMe first and run the sdk manager again.
Also attach a log if failed again.

Thanks

Woah! turns out the drive I was trying to use had an old Windows install on it, and was secured using Bitlocker. I couldn’t even access the drive at all through multiple methods. After formatting another drive it worked, thanks!!!

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Glad to hear issue solved.

Thanks

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