I can not flash the SSD of my Jetson Orin Nano

[kimbring2]

Hello,

I am trying to boot the Jetson Orin Nano 8GB Dev kit from SSD. It worked well with an SD card.

I connected the Jetson with Ubuntu 20.04-based host PC and booted the Jetson board in recovery mode.

However, I encounter the mount.nfs: Connection timed out error when I try to flash into SSD.

I am using the below command.

sudo ./tools/kernel_flash/l4t_initrd_flash.sh --external-device nvme0n1p1 -c tools/kernel_flash/flash_l4t_external.xml -p “-c bootloader/t186ref/cfg/flash_t234_qspi.xml” --showlogs --network usb0 jetson-orin-nano-devkit internal

I still can not figure out what the problem is. I would appreciate it if someone could tell me what the problem is.

Here is my while terminal log.

jetson_orin_nano_ssd_flash_log.txt (269.1 KB)

Thank you.

[DaveYYY]

Hi,

Can you please dump serial console log from the device?
Or you can just try this alternative way, which does not require the device to be connected to the host PC:
https://docs.nvidia.com/jetson/archives/r35.4.1/DeveloperGuide/text/SD/FlashingSupport.html#to-set-up-a-flash-drive-manually-for-booting

[kimbring2]

Hello,

Thank you for your response. I found that something broke the bootloader of my Jetson during the SSD flashing process.

Luckily, I could flash the bootloader using the method of this post.

I just bought a 512GB SD card instead of an SSD for now because I just needed the bigger space to save the weight of various generative models.

I am going to try your method at the next chance.

P.S. I am still not sure why the SSD flashing process broke the bootloader 🤔

Thank you.

[creatorpart]

Your solution is not adequate, with ssd your script will runs more faster than using sd card.