Jetson Orin NX massflash not working

[jeffaw99]

I am trying to mass flash multiple jetson orin nx on my aaeon carrier board.

I have created the flash image successfully following workflow 2 (online mode with jetson orin nx connected in recovery mode)

sudo ./tools/kernel_flash/l4t_initrd_flash.sh --external-device sda1 -S 56GiB --no-flash --massflash 4   -c tools/kernel_flash/flash_l4t_external.xml -p "-c bootloader/t186ref/cfg/flash_t234_qspi.xml" --showlogs --network usb0 jetson-orin-nano-devkit internal

then flash 4 connected devices using:

sudo ./tools/kernel_flash/l4t_initrd_flash.sh --flash-only  --massflash 4  --showlogs

I get this error:

[   0.0752 ] rcm boot with presigned binaries
[   0.0773 ] tegrarcm_v2 --instance 1-2 --new_session --chip 0x23 0 --uid --download bct_br br_bct_BR.bct --download mb1 mb1_t234_prod_aligned_sigheader.bin.encrypt --download psc_bl1 psc_bl1_t234_prod_aligned_sigheader.bin.encrypt --download bct_mb1 mb1_bct_MB1_sigheader.bct.encrypt
[   0.0793 ] BR_CID: 0x80012344705DD20D6C00000004FE8280
[   0.0884 ] Sending bct_br
[   0.0960 ] Sending mb1
[   0.0966 ] Sending psc_bl1
[   0.1102 ] Sending bct_mb1
[   0.1183 ] Generating blob for T23x
Error: invalid format kernel
Cleaning up...

But when i run this:

sudo ./tools/kernel_flash/l4t_initrd_flash.sh --flash-only  --massflash 1  --showlogs

the flash works. but i defeats the purpose of doing massflash if only 1 device can be flashed at a time.

I have modifed my kernel to have a built in driver support for my sata device.

any help will be greately appreciated!!

[DaveYYY]

Hi,

Can you please show the full flashing log and serial console log under both circumstances?
Have you checked if each of the 4 devices can be flashed with --massflash 1?
Or it only happens on specific devices?

[jeffaw99]

Hi DaveYYY,

Thank you for the help. there was a hardware issue on my side where some of the usb drives I bought were faulty.
reflashing with verified USB drives worked when running with --massflash 2