Jetpack 5.0.2 , boot from SATA SSD on Jetson Xavier NX. error: dev/sda1 not found

The official docs come with the particular release you are using and are for cross compiling on a host PC. See to particular release you are using (L4T release found with “head -n 1 /etc/nv_tegra_release”):

More of a tutorial on kernel build configuration:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/topic/229155/12

More of a tutorial on building a kernel:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/topic/193640/11