Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit Flashing not working

Hi lovely people…

Bought my Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit in December… Have not had time to start working with it until now…

Sadly I am unable to flash through sdkmanager. Tried flashing to SD and Nvme - same results… Sharing logfiles from nVme here along with additional info.

I can say that on this forum I found the command “sudo ./flash.sh jetson-orin-nano-devkit-nvme internal” which I ran after fighting with sdkmanager… It ran without issues… Problem is that after it has run, I cannot use the board anyway, and SDK manager wont touch it, unless I attempt a reflash (states that it cannot connect to an IP over SSH - even though connection is set to USB)…

No matter - the question is related to flashing from sdkmanager…

I am running sdkmanager on a desktop machine.
It is Booted into Ubuntu 24.04 (upgraded from 22.04 sadly upgraded during installation)
direct to motherboard usbc connection (tried usba to usbc as well - same result).
Only thing installed on the Ubuntu is sdkmanager - no other software - just a default installation, and straight into sdkmanager from there.

The output logs from flashing sdkmanager attempts towards SD and nVme looks the same. So just attached an nVme attempt here…

Attached output from these commands as well (found them on the forum too):

ls -la ~/nvidia/nvidia_sdk/JetPack_6.2_Linux_JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS/Linux_for_Tegra
showmount -e
sudo systemctl status nfs-kernel-server
sudo blkid
df -h
sudo ufw status

Install has some errors in the logs - but seems ok (looks like parsing of flashing output), but then it waits for bootup (forever) and stops after a timeout.

Ends with these log entries over and over for a long time - and then stops everytime (tried both Runtime and Pre-Config as well):

23:57:51.017 - info: NV_L4T_FLASH_JETSON_LINUX_COMP@JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS: Waiting for target to boot-up...
23:57:52.093 - info: NV_L4T_FLASH_JETSON_LINUX_COMP@JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS: Waiting for target to boot-up...
23:57:53.094 - info: NV_L4T_FLASH_JETSON_LINUX_COMP@JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS: Timeout
.....
.....
(and then a lot of stuff about cleanup and other errors)

SDKM_logs_JetPack_6.2_Linux_for_Jetson_Orin_Nano_[8GB_developer_kit_version]_2025-03-07_23-42-52.zip (187.0 KB)

command-output.txt (9.1 KB)

For “fun” I attached the flash.sh output as well - if you need that to compare with sdkmanager logs…
direct-flash-output.txt (104.0 KB)

Hi,
Please let the developer kit enter recovery mode and try the manual steps:

Quick Start — NVIDIA Jetson Linux Developer Guide

See if you can re-flash to Jetpack 6.2 successfully.

And please check if you do this to host PC:
Jetson AGX Orin FAQ

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