TX2 Flash failed due to lack of bootloader

Autonomous Machines Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson TX2
1

I received the following error when running the nvautoflash.sh script on my (very old) TX:

Error: None of the bootloaders are running on device. Check the UART log.

I have no idea what or where the “UART log” might be. Any help appreciated. This is the 1000 model.

2

Hi,
Please try to install Sdkmanager on host Linux PC and flash TX2 through it. The latest Jetpack is 4.5.1:
JetPack SDK | NVIDIA Developer

3

Yes, that worked; after temporarily downgrading my AMD64 machine to Ubuntu 18.04 and installing SDK Manager on that OS and … then it finally worked.

Please allow the host OS for the SDK Manager to not be a dependency; 20.04 should be a viable choice for SDK Manager. In addition, other Jetson’s (ARM64) should also be viable hosts for SDK Manager.

This process is terrible.