Jetson Orin NX Flashing Failure due to missing NVME partition

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Orin NX
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Hi,

Im facing an issue with the Jetson Orin NX flashing process. Im using Jetson Linux 35.5.0, the Jetson entered the recovery mode. After running the command:

sudo ./tools/kernel_flash/l4t_initrd_flash.sh --external-device nvme0n1p1 -c ./tools/kernel_flash/flash_l4t_t234_nvme.xml -p "-c bootloader/t186ref/cfg/flash_t234_qspi.xml" --showlogs --network usb0 jetson-orin-nano-devkit external

The flashing process fails at step 3 during flashing with the following error:

writing item=1, 9:0:primary_gpt, 512, 19968, gpt_primary_9_0.bin, 16896, fixed-<reserved>-0, da5625a62e30273b83300f85aed20b79e21c5408
Error: Could not stat device /dev/nvme0n1 - No such file or directory.
Flash failure
Cleaning up...
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So does your device really have a nvme SSD connected on it ?

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It does, 256 gb Intenso SSD. I already preformated it

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Is this a NV devkit or a custom carrier board?

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It is an NV Jetson Orin NX board from Yahboom

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If it is a custom board then please check with vendor for their custom BSP.

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For the info, I already managed to flash it before. With a different NVME SSD I can boot it on a Ubuntu based Jetson Distribution. I recently had this problem after installing Ubuntu Jetson OS on it. Currently I cannot find the NVME even when running fdisk -l.

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Are you saying that your device boot up now but you still don’t see your nvme? That sounds not possible.

Do you have any dmesg log to share?

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I tried with another NVME that I can boot from based on Jetson Ubuntu. During recovery made and after checking the partitions with fdisk -l, the NVME partition could not be found. This is the same problem with the first SSD.

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Hi,

It is normal. Your nvme is on the Jetson device. Your “fdisk -l” command is running on host.

It is totally expected that you won’t see that thing on your host.

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I see. I will try to backup and flash the working SSD to make sure its not an NVME issue.

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You should try to dump the log from device side with the failed NVMe when flash process.

This could help clarify what is going on.

I guess the NVMe is not broken but it has PCIe link problem with Jetson. In brief, PCIe interface cannot detect your NVMe so that flash process cannot go through.

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This is the dump during flashing process

serial-log.txt (93.0 KB)

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Yes, this log indicates that my guess is true. NVMe is not able to be detected.

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That is weird because i can detect it on an NVME card reader. Im currently formatting it again, if it still dosent work I will get a newer one.

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This has been confirmed to be an SSD problem. I tried another card and everything worked correctly.

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