Jetson keeps rebooting itself

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Orin Nano
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I am experiencing an issue with my Jetson Orin where it fails to boot properly. I faced with a similar issue when I was using an SD card to boot my Jetson. That issue resolved after switching to an SSD however the issue is happening again.

Jetson is not booting after reboot

Here are the logs I captured when the device was in recovery mode.

bootup.log (60.1 KB)

Below are the key points from the serial console logs that highlight the problem:

  1. Missing Kernel Module:

    modprobe: FATAL: Module r8168 not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.192-tegra
    • The system reports a fatal error due to the missing r8168 module, which is likely required for the Realtek Ethernet driver.

  2. Mounting Issues:

    • The system attempts to locate and mount the OTA work directory but encounters several errors:
      Checking whether device /dev/mmcblk?p1 exist
Device /dev/mmcblk?p1 does not exist
Checking whether device /dev/sd?1 exist
Device /dev/sd?1 does not exist
Checking whether device /dev/nvme?n1p1 exist
Looking for OTA work directory on the device(s): /dev/nvme0n1p1
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt
OTA work directory /mnt/ota_work is not found on /dev/nvme0n1p1
mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt
mount: /mnt: special device /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not exist.
Failed to mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 on the /mnt
    • The device /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not exist, indicating a possible issue with the internal storage.
    • The OTA work directory /mnt/ota_work is not found on the NVMe device /dev/nvme0n1p1.

  3. Entering Recovery Mode:

    • Due to these issues, the system mounts the root filesystem from initrd and enters recovery mode.

Here are the logs after I switched to the direct booting mode. At this point device is just rebooting itself after bootup

bootup_2.log (61.4 KB)

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Hi wallybeam,

Are you using the devkit or custom board for Orin Nano?
What’s your Jetpack version in use?

So, what’s your current boot device?

From this log, it seems booting into recovery kernel.
I want to check the log before this boot. There should be something failed during boot up to cause it entering into this state.

This is a serial console log with normal boot up.

How did you perform this?

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I am using a custom board. My Jetpack version is 5.1.2.

Currently, I am using an SSD.

I switched from Recovery Mode to direct boot by using the following steps:

(AGX Orin Recovery Boot - #6 by WayneWWW)
Hi, Please try below method and it will go back to direct Boot again.Press ESC to enter UEFI Menu, then choose Device Manager → NVIDIA Configuration → L4T Configuration → OS chain A status → (The value is Unbootable if UEFI attemps recovery kernel) choose Normal → Save and exit, reboot, UEFI will try Direct Boot.

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so, has your slot A been switched to unbootable before?

I would like to check the log before it enters into recovery kernel.
Or are you performing some reboot test and you run reboot command after boot up immediately?

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