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An educational AI robot based on NVIDIA Jetson Nano.
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Having trouble booting jetbot image (lots of details in the description) #610

Open SarvagyaVaish opened 5 months ago

SarvagyaVaish commented 5 months ago

I purchased the JetBot AI Kit from Amazon (here) and the Jetson Nano Developer Kit from Amazon (here).

After assembling all the hardware and electronics, I tried to follow the software setup instructions at https://jetbot.org/master/, specifically the install instructions via SD Card Image, here.

Here, there is the following note:

To use one of the JetBot sdcard images based on JetPack 4.5, you first need to boot your Jetson Nano using a plain JetPack 4.5 SD card image and run through the operating system setup. This will perform a one-time configuration which enables you to use SD card images based on JetPack 4.5 on your device. You can find the original JetPack SD card images here: JetPack SD card image for Jetson Nano 2GB and JetPack SD card image for Jetson Nano (4GB). After doing this procedure once, you can then use the JetPack 4.5 based JetBot SD card images listed above on your device.

I downloaded the JetPack SD card image for Jetson Nano (4GB), flashed it on a micro SD card and booted the Jetson Nano. For power, I used the micro USB connector on the Jetson Dev Kit connected to a regular USB wall charger (capable of 2 Amps).

Q1. The installation steps mostly involved setting up an Ubuntu profile. How do I trigger the "one-time configuration which enables you to use SD card images based on JetPack 4.5 on your device"? Did that happen automatically?

Assuming that the config happened automatically as part of the initial boot, I then flashed the micro SD card with a JetBot image called "jetbot-043_nano-4gb-jp45", downloaded from here. If I try to boot from this image, I get stuck on a cmdline login prompt. It's not the normal ubuntu login screen.

Q2. Does the JetBot image not have a GUI associated with it?

Q3. Am I missing any installation steps to be able to use the JetBot image?

If you need any additional information, or screenshots and image, please let me know :)

SarvagyaVaish commented 5 months ago

Oh! Is it that the JetBot image (jetbot-043_nano-4gb-jp45) doesn't have GUI enabled?