Hi I just bought a Jetson Nano and I cannot get it to boot. I’ve tried flashing the SD card multiple times and tried multiple SD cards and nothing will change. I tested my power supply and monitor set up with another working Jetson Nano to confirm that they were not the issue. I tried to go through a headless set up and the Jetson Nano will not show up as a serial device on my computer. I even tried putting the SD card from the working Nano onto mine and it still would not boot. When I say “won’t boot” I mean that the green LED will turn on but nothing will show up on my monitor screen.
I got things working using the SDK Manager on a Linux computer. Don’t know how to solve this if one doesn’t have a Linux computer handy…
Could you please explain how did you solve the problem. I have the same issue.
Please re-flash your device with SDK Manager. Re-flashing only SD cards is not going to work.
Tip: Jetsons don’t have a BIOS, they have the equivalent in software. SD card dev kit models have this in the QSPI memory of the module itself, so the SD card is not going to work until a compatible release of the QSPI is installed via flashing of the module itself (with JetPack/SDK Manager). Sometimes the QSPI content works with a current SD card, sometimes not. It’s always advisable to flash QSPI once.
L4T is what gets flashed (it’s Ubuntu plus NVIDIA drivers), and JetPack/SDKM is what performs the flashing from the correct release of an Ubuntu host PC (for a Nano an Ubuntu 18 host PC is recommended). If you pick either a JetPack/SDKM release, or an L4T release, the other is also picked (they go to the same web page for downloading flash software). See:
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