Jetson TX2 not recognized installation inside docker error 8 Error: Return value 8 Command tegrarcm_v2 --chip 0x18 --rcm rcm_list_signed.xml --skipuid Reading board information failed.

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson TX2
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The Ubuntu 14/16 requirements are for JetPack. The underlying flash itself can be done with just the driver package plus sample rootfs on command line with any x86_64 Linux host. Should this work you can still run JetPack later for package installs without flashing.

General command line flash info:

  1. Download the driver package plus sample rootfs. Most recent R27.1 is at: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/linux-tegra
  2. Unpack the driver package (goes to "Linux_for_Tegra" subdirectory). Within this is subdirectory "rootfs":: 
    Tegra_Linux_Sample-Root-Filesystem_R27.1.0_aarch64.tbz2
  3. cd into rootfs, use sudo to unpack the sample rootfs: 
    sudo tar xjvf ../wherever/it/is/Tegra_Linux_Sample-Root-Filesystem_R27.1.0_aarch64.tbz2
  4. cd back up one directory to the "Linux_for_Tegra" directory ("cd ..").
  5. Use sudo to apply_binaries.sh: 
    sudo ./apply_binaries.sh
  6. Verify you still have enough disk space of type ext4, perhaps 35GB: 
    df -H -T .
  7. Put the Jetson in recovery mode (hold the recovery button while powering on the Jetson or hitting reset for an already on Jetson, connect the micro-B USB cable to host). Verify host can see the Jetson...see output from this lsusb command: 
    lsusb -d 0955:7c18
  8. Flash with sudo: 
    sudo ./flash.sh -S 28GiB jetson-tx2 mmcblk0p1

EDIT: The maximum “-S” size is “-S 29318MiB”.

Note that after you are finished, if you choose to delete and not reuse the generated image, you can save disk space by deleting “bootloader/system.img” and “bootloader/system.img.raw”.

Before starting the actual flash you may also want to be sure loop0 is generated via:

sudo losetup --find
# ...this should have replied "/dev/loop0"...