Jetson Disk Image Creation

Autonomous Machines Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Orin Nano
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Hi guys,

I have a problem that I want to build my own image to flash with a SD card. However I am able to build everything without any errors but I am not sure why my jetson nano orin dev kit is not booting.

I want a Image without ubuntu gui, so its just a minimal server image.

What I did:

1.) Downloaded Driver Package and unpacked it
tar -xf Jetson_Linux_R35.4.1_aarch64.tbz2

2.) Went to /Linux_for_Tegra/tools/samplefs and executed
./nv_build_samplefs.sh --abi aarch64 --distro ubuntu --flavor minimal --version focal

3.) Moved generated rootfs files to /Linux_for_Tegra/rootfs and unpack it there

4.) ./apply_binaries.sh to install nvidia binaries

5.) Create new user to be able to login via SSH
/Linux_for_Tegra/tools/l4t_create_default_user.sh -u foo -p bar --accept-license

6.) Create Image in /Linux_for_Tegra/tools/
./jetson-disk-image-creator.sh -o test.img -b jetson-orin-nano-devkit -d SD

7.) Flash generated img with balenaetcher and boot device

The jetson nano is able to load l4tlauncher via direct boot but than stops working, what am I missing? Thanks for helping!

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Just figured out that some packages were missing in tools/samplefs/nvubuntu-focal-minimal-aarch64-packages to be able to successfully complete the apply_binaries.sh script.

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nvidia-l4t-jetsonpower-gui-tools:
 nvidia-l4t-jetsonpower-gui-tools depends on python3-tk; however:
  Package python3-tk is not installed.
 nvidia-l4t-jetsonpower-gui-tools depends on python3-matplotlib; however:
  Package python3-matplotlib is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package nvidia-l4t-jetsonpower-gui-tools (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up nvidia-l4t-libvulkan (35.4.1-20230801124926) ...
Setting up nvidia-l4t-multimedia-utils (35.4.1-20230801124926) ...
Setting up nvidia-l4t-nvfancontrol (35.4.1-20230801124926) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nvidia-l4t-nvpmodel-gui-tools:
 nvidia-l4t-nvpmodel-gui-tools depends on gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1; however:
  Package gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 is not installed.

Ive just added 3 more python packages that are needed to apply all binaries

gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1
python3-matplotlib

to the list and rebuilt my rootfs folder. However I am still not able to boot the device… I also tested it with the sample_root_fs and it just works. Still digging deeper…

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Hi,

Please show the booting log from the serial console so we know what’s going on.
Has the QSPI memory on the Orin Nano modules been flashed before?

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