Troubles flashing a Jetson Orin Nano with SDKManager

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Orin Nano
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I’ve been spending a big amount of hours in attempting to flash my NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano unit these days.
I’m using a virtual box as hypervisor to host an ubuntu v22.04 over which I installed the SDK Manager v2.2.0.12028.
The goal is to install in the unit the latest firmware and make it work over a SSD M2 2230 drive instead of booting with an SD card. Jetpack version is 6.2
Tried with different USB-C cables, forced recovery jumper is on, jet still I cannot flash my Jetson unit.
When trying from CLI using these, none work:

sudo ./flash.sh jetson-orin-nano-devkit internal

or

sudo ./flash.sh jetson-orin-nano-devkit <target_M2_SSD>

SDKManager says the device is in a bad state and that I should reboot, jump the forced recovery and start over, while the CLI ends with WARNING: Error 8.

Definitely need some help here, thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
Fede.

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logs.zip (90.2 KB)
Uploading logs for additional information.

Thanks again.

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Hi,

Our recommended approach is using native ubuntu,
but there are some users sharing their successful experience with VMWare.
You could refer to this to try.

Thanks

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Hi. Your article helped a lot. Almost made it through.
I’m getting an error on the size of the disk partition assigned to the image. While the image needs over 16GB, the default size during the OS image flashing into the device is around 3 GB.
See attached logs for more info.

Any ideas on how can I fix it?
Thanks once again.

Fede.

SDKM_logs_JetPack_6.2_Linux_for_Jetson_Orin_Nano_[8GB_developer_kit_version]_2025-02-12_12-11-02.zip (201.0 KB)

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Hi,

What’s storage size you prepare for your VM?
Please prepare at least 64GB or more to flash your device.
Please refer to below link to get more information.

https://docs.nvidia.com/sdk-manager/system-requirements/index.html

Thanks

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Hi!
I installed a M2 512GB disk on the board. Supposedly clean. I was expecting the SDK manager to setup all the partitions on it. Is there any place I could manually do this myself and set a larger one?

Thanks again.

Fede.

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What’s your storage size in your VM?
Since sdk manager will download package in your VM, which require enough space to install.

Thanks

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Hi, David.
Happy Friday.
VM storage size is 50 GB as per your recommendation.
I’m thinking the problem lies in how much space SDKManager sets in the destination M2 disk when attempting to flash the drive.

Thanks,
Fede.

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Hey, David.
I managed to increase the partition size to 80 GB and ran the flashing process again.
I’m getting a different error message now.
Adding the logs attached for your review.

Regards,
Fede.

SDKM_logs_JetPack_6.2_Linux_for_Jetson_Orin_Nano_[8GB_developer_kit_version]_2025-02-14_15-28-15.zip (201.0 KB)

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Hi federico.marzullo,

Based on your log:

Device failed to boot to the initrd flash kernel. Please retrive the serial log during flashing to debug further.

We need you to record a serial console log.
To record a serial console log, please refer below link

As we mentioned before, the vm environment is unstable not like native ubuntu, we recommend try dual boot or install native ubuntu directly.

Thanks

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