Troubles flashing a Jetson Orin Nano with SDKManager

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.

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

Thanks again.

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

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)

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

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.