Jetson Nano Flash on USB Drive

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson Systems Jetson Nano
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Hi,

  1. Actually, the real tool that can fully support jetson platform is sdkmanager. Which will download the driver package “Linux_for_Tegra” on your x86 host. Those contents are in this driver package.
    NVIDIA SDK Manager | NVIDIA Developer

Why I say “fully support” is because we only launch sdcard image on Nano and NX sdcard module. Other platforms need sdkmanager to flash. Even nano/nx “production module” require sdkmanager. We don’t provide sdcard image for that module.

  1. The step 6 requires the driver package as I said in (1). And there is no method to totally boot from external storage. What we are doing is moving the rootfs /kernel to the USB drive.

Please note that jetson NX/NANO have 2 kinds of module. The one that can use sdcard image is not for production but more like for evaluation or taking an experience. Another one which uses emmc as internal storage is for production/customization.

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