Neither of those commands will work. The flash will appear to succeed without erorr, but when rebooting the device will report “sda1 not found” or similar.
Similar issues have been reported in the past, for example:
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I’m also having trouble booting the Jetson Xavier NX into emmc when I try to boot it into the usb device in the usbtosata interface.
However, I noticed that if I connected the usbstick directly without going through the usb hub, it would boot into the usb device.
In the article below , I think @WayneWWW also confirmed that the usb pendrive boots up.
Continuing the discussion from CBoot with USB Storage i…
Lots of good info in this thread, gtj. Thanks for posting!
Let me just talk about XNX and USB first. Both Nano and NX have a RealTek USB hub on-board (that’s the “USB Device 0bda:5489” you see in during CBoot’s USB boot attempt). Unfortunately, neither CBoot nor U-Boot currently support hubs, so you can’t boot from USB on either platform. We’re working on it, and hope to have USB hub support out in a (near) future release. Note that the kernel DOES support the hub, so you can put data and/or y…