I am using jetson nano P3448 (R-R-NVA-P3448) module mounted on waveshare jetson io base A rev2. For complete OS flashing process I has been referring Waveshare Wiki. I have ubuntu 18.04 (Dual booted with desktop i5 with windows 11), jetson setup as mentioned above, micro B data cable, 5V,4A power (from 12V battery and step down converter to 5V, 4A) and sdkmanager installed as mentioned in waveshare wiki. As i am using jetson nano, sdkmanager automatically selected jetpack 4.6.6 (since others are not compatible for jetson nano), while initiating the OS flashing process (including Jetson OS and CUDA as target components) the installation is getting stuck at 41.88%, on second time installation, this time excluding CUDA (only Jetson OS) it is getting stuck at 99.80% flashing got stuck at 99%. I tried with CLI approach instead of sdkmanager using ./flash.sh in L4T (Linux_for_Tegra), in this approach also, the display console is getting stuck at saved platform info in storage.bin. (Stuck means, i waited around more than 1/2 hour for sdkmanager approach and CLI approach). Kindly help me out flashing the OS to jetson nano.
I am attaching the log.txt of last stuck process of only Jetson OS in sdkmanager.
Thanks,
SDKM_logs_2025-11-28_16-26-16.zip (1.6 MB)
The Waveshare Wiki URL was not working for me, I had an infinite wait.
Do beware that “most” Jetsons on third party carrier boards (such as Waveshare) use a different device tree (firmware) than the default Jetson flashes. The ones NVIDIA posts are for developer kits. In some instances third party manufacturers will use an exact electrical copy of the carrier board and say that you can use the NVIDIA flash software directly. In other cases they provide a patch to the NVIDIA flash software, or even a fully rebranded flash software (consisting most of device tree changes, but perhaps also driver additions if there is something special on the carrier board).
Are you sure you are using the correct flash software? If it isn’t using the NVIDIA carrier board then there is a chance flash won’t complete with the NVIDIA software.
The other thing which seems to be an issue is sometimes people use a VM and USB is lost, or a charger cable is used with insufficient quality for data transfer, and USB once again won’t respond, or will fail after starting.
Thanks for reaching out @linuxdev !!! Regarding the flash software selection as I am using waveshare jetson IO base A Rev2 (which indeed is an third party carrier board’s vendor, not nvidia carrier board), so I have selected P3448-0002 Module. Your guess was right, in the SDK manager there are no compatible OS for the third party carrier module i was using. Could you help me out with any sources where i can find NVIDIA patch flash software or even fully rebranded flash software, which you are suggesting in the previous thread.
Thanks,
NVIDIA does not actually supply any of the non-dev kit flash software. I can’t seem to get to the URL you posted, it just times out. However, Waveshare will have a web page with support software of your particular carrier board/module combination. That is where you’ll have to look. This might be provided as a patch to NVIDIA flash software, or it might be rebranded flash software (I don’t know). It is a much lower probability, but sometimes they will state that you can use NVDIA’s software without any modification. Until then I would expect JetPack/SDK Manager to fail because of the carrier board requirements.
Thanks @linuxdev, will try to look into waveshare’s NVIDIA patch for my carrier board and let you know if something works out for me!!!
