Unable to flash Orin Nano Devkit with SDK manager or flash.sh to SD card

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Orin Nano
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I have tried to investigate other logs but still cant find anything yet, I will atempt the flash again later and revise all the logs. Actually, the reason I am doing this is to be able to run R34.6 since the pre-packed versions for SD card only use up until R36.2 as discussed above.
Is there a possibility to get pre-packed R36.4 for SD card so I can flash it with etcher?

Jorge

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You can try to flash the QSPI on the module by using flash.sh first and then using sdcard image later. As I told before, flash.sh does not flash external drive, so NVMe/USB/SDcard may not be flashed by it. Upgrading QSPI only only upgrade the bootloader of the board.

But I don’t recommend such method. Maybe trying to find another ubuntu host to flash.

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I will try finding another host. I just can’t help to ask, is there any reason the pre-packed SD card images dont have the latest R36.4 despite being Jetpack 6.1 rev 1?

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This involves with how the actual boot works here. Many users think sdcard image has everything there. But this is not correct. Sdcard/USB/NVMe only provides a boot medium for Ubuntu root file system.

But this software upgrade to Jetson Orin Nano super mode has lots of software on the bootloader side too. Which means the QSPI on the module itself has to be updated too.
This thing won’t be updated by using sdcard image.

I personally suggest you must try how to flash Jetson from another x86 host +sdkmanager but not relying on sdcard image.
Lots of posts out there telling they cannot use Orin Nano super mode are all because they mixed up everything (sometimes sdcard image, sometimes etcher, sometimes flash.sh).
For example, I just replied another one here which cannot enable maxN mode earlier. But fixed after correctly flashed with sdkmanager.

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Thanks! I will try to find another host and if needed install another version of ubuntu in my available computer and get back.

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I was able to flash the latest version with SDKmanager by changing host. Ubuntu 20.4.6 LTS seems to work for me while 22.4 LTS did not.

jon@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 5.15.148-tegra #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 12 15:37:09 PST 2024 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
jon@ubuntu:~$ dpkg-query --show nvidia-l4t-core
nvidia-l4t-core	36.4.2-20241212160716

Thanks!

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