I’m flashing a Jetson using sudo ./flash.sh jetson-xavier mmcblk1p1, yet the default rootfs ./Linux_for_Tegra/rootfs has to have a kernel image etc, although the image I’m flashing on the microSD card beforehand has a complete file system with the correct kernel image and so on… so from my understan…

Hi, Your question is already answered by point 4. Flash.sh is not able to know there is a file existing in your sdcard. All the thing it tries to do is flash the system image to mmcbkl0p1. And flash process requires rootfs to have necessary data. That is why it failed.

Why do I need to have a rootfs when flashing to boot from microSD?

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WayneWWW March 13, 2023, 1:47pm 6

point 4 in below post.

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Why do I need to have a rootfs when flashing to boot from microSD?

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