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Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.
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Fix the problem with NVME M2 SSDs #4325

Closed Neltherion closed 2 months ago

Neltherion commented 2 months ago

Flashing an image with Balena on an NVME SSD and then using it on a Jetson device would result in an error described here and the fix is also in this post.

Is this a problem that should be fixed by the Balena team or NVIDIA?

acostach commented 2 months ago

Hi @Neltherion , can you please share what exact device type and what balenaOS version are you using? And also the exact steps that you used?

Neltherion commented 2 months ago

Device => Jetson Orin Nano Balena Etcher => 1.19.21

The Jetson Orin Nano was flashed with NVIDIA SDK Manager successfully first but before or even after the flash, I could not boot up the Jetson with the jp60-orin-nano-sd-card-image.zip etched on an NVME M.2 SSD.

The errors are exactly the same as was described here and the fix was exactly the same described here.

acostach commented 2 months ago

Thanks for clarifying @Neltherion , so the file you flashed on the NVME with Etcher is the Nvidia Ubuntu image, and to get it to work you had to modify extlinux.conf in it and change the root in the kernel cmdline to be the first partition of the nvme, instead of the first partition of the sd-card. This is expected behavior because the Ubuntu sd-card image contents are designed to be flashed to an sd-card and not to a NVME. Etcher writes the image as is, without modifying the contents of extlinux.conf or other files.

Neltherion commented 2 months ago

Thanks for the clarification.