NVMe Flash Only Works With Ubuntu 18

Autonomous Machines Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Orin Nano
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Like many others on here I’ve been struggling to flash an NVMe drive using Ubuntu 20.04. After doing some digging and seeing people talk about successful flashes using Ubuntu 18 I installed it on a USB drive and gave it a shot. The flash worked the first time, no issues.

So, if you’re having trouble using your $500+ hardware that doesn’t work with your OS originally released 3 years ago, try using an OS that was released 5 years ago. If you can’t install Ubuntu 18.04 on a spare device, I’m sorry. Maybe try this workaround and hope you don’t have to apply a firmware patch that requires you to re-flash.

NVIDIA: PLEASE FIX THIS Your devs must be working with outdated tools and it’s impacting your customers. I shouldn’t have to jump through hoops and spend days reading old forum posts just to install the OS on brand new hardware.

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Hi,

Are you talking about the usb timeout issue or you are talking about other things?

We do know there is a usb timeout issue and we are still trying to fix that. As for other issue, those are all single cases and case by case. Need log to check.

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Hi Wayne,

I have experienced two separate issues when attempting to flash from an Ubuntu 20 machine:

I attempted flashing both via SDKM and manually with

sudo ./tools/kernel_flash/l4t_initrd_flash.sh --external-device nvme0n1 -c ./tools/kernel_flash/flash_l4t_nvme.xml -S 200GiB --showlogs --erase-all jetson-orin-nano-devkit nvme0n1p1