Jetson Xavier NX - Run from SSD

We install a SSD in our Xavier NX and setup the system to run from it. Please like, share, and subscribe. Full article on JetsonHacks: wp.me/p7ZgI9-38V
0:00 Intro
0:18 Background
1:23 Install SSD
2:44 Format Drive
4:06 Disk Setup
4:43 Copy rootfs
5:17 Setup to run from rootfs
6:45 Tech Talk Time!
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[@sleepwalker2008]

Love the content, been going through the forums for instructions, and after repeated failed attempts. I've finally found your video! Thank you very much for your work! I look forward to your future videos.

[@JetsonHacks]

You are welcome, and thanks for watching!

[@SuperMakeSomething]

Excellent video! Clear, concise, and perfect amount of humor. Love the dive into the scripts at the end so that you can see exactly what is happening behind the scenes!

[@JetsonHacks]

Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you like "Tech Talk Time". I'm trying to separate major geek from minor geek in these videos. Thanks for watching!

Super fantastic! Just used it on my Jetson Xavier AGX. Thank you so much.

[@qwkhyena]

Jim, once again, within the Jetson community, you’re a national treasure! Thank you!

[@JetsonHacks]

Oh my, you drank the kool aid. Thank you for the very kind words, and thanks for watching!

[@alexgunagwera8310]

I think you meant "international treasure" xd

[@gamekida4007]

​@@alexgunagwera8310 yes he is @JetsonHacks

[@phmiii]

You have addressed the last of my Xavier NX concerns! It is time for me to build another Robot! Thank you!

[@JetsonHacks]

You are welcome. I hope you can share your robot with us. Thanks for watching!

[@craigphillips1034]

Great video. It was this video that sold me on the NVMe card and now it is working as described. Thank you.

[@JetsonHacks]

You are welcome. I'm glad you were able to get it to work. Thanks for watching!

[@ThePaintingpeter]

You're a good resource for new entrants into the hardware/software space. Thank you very much.

[@JetsonHacks]

Thank you for the kind words, and thanks for watching!

[@jamesbazil4169]

Just got it working with Jetpack 4.5, Thank you so much!!

[@JetsonHacks]

You are welcome, and thanks for watching!

[@bertgroenen9160]

Just installed with Jetpack version 4.5.1. It works great. Thanks!

[@JetsonHacks]

Great to hear! Thanks for watching!

[@zero91100]

Thank's again Jim :) The King of Jetson !

[@JetsonHacks]

Thanks for the kind words, and thanks for watching!

[@saadtiwana]

Worked like a charm! Thanks for sharing!

[@JetsonHacks]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@ignaciocases]

Excellent video again!! Thanks Jim!!

[@JetsonHacks]

Thank you for the kind words, and thanks for watching!

[@rodrigoescarate3151]

Excelente video, muchas gracias!!!!. Me permitió aumentar el disco de mi Jetson AGX Xavier

[@badejavuade6774]

Nice and straight to the point. Thanks

[@JetsonHacks]

You are welcome, and thanks for watching!

[@Sikuq]

Thanks Jim. Was looking for this.

[@JetsonHacks]

You are welcome, and thanks for watching!

[@jerrypierre3737]

Thank you so much, it worked for me!! :)

[@JetsonHacks]

You are welcome, and thanks for watching!

[@craigphillips1034]

I really like this video. I have been using this for a few days and the SSD is so much snappier than the micro SD card. However, I did have an issue with my swapfile still on the SD. There was a swapfile called swfile setup by jtop on the SD card before I got the SSD. With the SSD install jtop was still looking at that old swfile. I uninstalled the swfile on the SD card and then used jtop to create a new swfile that was written to the new SSD. Now I have 4GB of zram and set up 2GB of additional swap space on the SSD.

[@JetsonHacks]

Thank you for the kind words. I am glad you you were able to get your swapfile to work. Thanks for watching!

[@newerasworld4102]

@@JetsonHacks is the swapfile setup taken care in the script?

[@JetsonHacks]

@@newerasworld4102 I don't know what you mean by "taken care of". The script does not set up a swap file.

[@newerasworld4102]

@@JetsonHacks should the script be improved to setup swap file ?

[@JetsonHacks]

@@newerasworld4102 You can modify the script to meet your needs.

[@johndodd9973]

thanks for doing this, I've messed on for days ruining sdcard images and having to re-build them trying to pivot boot as per the jetson nano video.

[@JetsonHacks]

You are welcome. To me, this makes the Xavier NX a much nicer experience. Thanks for watching!

[@johndodd9973]

@@JetsonHacks I'm now getting disk access times of 2.2Gb/s compared to 30Mb/s on the sdcard. Nice and thanks again. ;-)

[@JetsonHacks]

Now you're getting somewhere!

[@SuperMakeSomething]

This makes me really want to do this for the ML demo I’m planning. 😲 That is so much faster it’s almost insane!

[@chetana9802]

super clean video

[@JetsonHacks]

Thanks for watching!

[@terryphan7451]

Starting JP 4.4 both the AGX Xavier and the Xavier NX will support PCIe Gen4 SSD and Booting from SSD. Make sure you crank that fan up with jetson_clocks for the hot PCIe Gen 4 SSD.

[@happyloper]

just one bingo!! thank you!!

[@JetsonHacks]

You are welcome, and thanks for watching!

[@rjelkins]

A hacker with a sense of humour. Thanks a bunch! But, you took all the fun away; I usually hack it myself. Hah!

[@JetsonHacks]

Everyone says I drain all the fun from everything. I have finally come to grips with the fact that I am "The Fun Taker". Thanks for watching!

[@jeroentaverne8232]

Great video. Only questions I have: What can be deleted from the SD card after copy to SSD is completed? What needs to stay there?

[@Engro39]

amazing! let me try

[@JetsonHacks]

Have fun! Thanks for watching!

[@pedersefland70]

Thank you for share your knowledge. This is a big help. But in this video you mentions at around 01:18 that the Jetson NX PCIe is 3 Gen. Maybe that is for the Wifi m.2. But I order a Samsung Pro 980 1TB M.2 SSD that is PCIe 4 Gen. and followed your instructions. I was able to bechmark the Samsung SSD with more than 7000MB/s read!. I don’t know if this woul conclude that the NX has M.2 PCIe 4 Gen. for the SSD slot. But I’m very happy with the performance.

[@JetsonHacks]

Thanks for the info, and thanks for watching!

[@luisarellano09]

Great video, is it ok to create the swap file in the NVM using this setup? Please keep making more videos about the Xavier NX. Thanks!

[@JetsonHacks]

Thank you for the kind words. You can create the swapfile there, sure. Thanks for watching!

[@miguelribeiro8771]

thanks for the video, now, the part of the video "Tech Talk Time!" is it about moving system from sd card to ssd? my english is very, very bad, and I don't understand this part, I tried to remove the sd card and the system didn't start anymore

[@boxedowl]

Will this work in headless mode? Thanks for these vids. They are a great reference!

[@JetsonHacks]

You are welcome. This works, though the method might be slightly different if you are running a command line. You will need to format and partition the disk via the cli (using something like parted) if you aren't running a GUI like we use for Disks in the video. Thanks for watching!

[@anpr]

thank you

[@JetsonHacks]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

[@DK-dp3kk]

Thanks for another great video. Do you have any benchmarks for training models on Jetson Nano, TX2 or Xavier??

[@JetsonHacks]

Thank you for the kind words. I do not have any benchmarks. Thanks for watching!

[@misckicirina]

Great tutorial. Does your script work also for Jetpack 4.5?

[@liviuconstantin9960]

Hey Jim! First off a big "Thank you" for all your hard work. We, the audience sure do appreciate people like you who can connect us and introduce to this unknown, unmapped, twilight-zone type area called High-Tech and Ubuntu and Software and Jetpacks and.... other strange and undefined words. Anyway, that being said....I went through all this process but in the end after re-booting my screen shows the SSD drive where your screen displays the SD icon. Does this mean that I am still booting and running on SD-card and the SSD is a peripheral?

[@liviuconstantin9960]

Problem fixed! Running smooth.

[@JetsonHacks]

I am glad you were able to get it to work!

[@liviuconstantin9960]

@@JetsonHacks Wow! I was just watching another of your videos!!! I'm activating the CUDA on my nx !!

[@wegunterjr]

I had to edit the files since for some reason, my 1TB NVMe SSD formatted and I couldn't get it to change. So, I had to remove the partition. what does it do with the rest of the files? I am going to load this thing up and answer the rest of my questions (AGX 32GB and still ran out of space?!?!?!) Will I have to redo this again if I flash from sdk manager?

[@Mirror_Holder]

hello, is it possible that you make a video on how to use an ultrasonic sensor with jetson nano

[@alexkehoe]

Will this still work with AGX using jetpack 4.6? I have already installed everything on the emmc and now want to copy it over to nvme so i have more storage

[@yuanqingxie1809]

I want to ask. After i did what you said, everytime when i shut down the Xavier and the system turns to sd card, i have to restart it one more time and then the system is in SSD. I am so confused. Help.

[@athtemp1329]

Excellent Video! Do you know if I can have more that one UART with Jetsons?

[@JetsonHacks]

Thank you for the kind words. On most Jetsons there are two UARTs, however one is the serial console. You need to tell the system not to use the serial console as such. Thanks for watching!

[@johnny_123b]

Nx dev kit is pcie gen 4. But not yet supported in software, if I understood correctly

[@RaymondLo84]

Anything new after a year later? Do we still need the SD card to boot this?

[@abbymerchant2069]

Help, does anyone know why after I partition any change to the home directory result in "fatal: could not create... : No space left on device"? I counldn't do the git clone command in disk setup because it keeps giving me that no space left error. Also I can't even create a txt file or make a simple folder.

[@apulacheyt]

Hi Jim how are you doing?. I've noticed that Jetpack 4.6 was released and in the key features Nvidia mentioned : - "NVMe driver added to CBoot for Jetson Xavier NX and Jetson AGX Xavier series. Enables loading kernel, kernel-dtb and initrd from the root file system on NVMe". Nevertheless after reviewed the documentation is not clear yet for me how to start using this capability to install Jetpack 4.6 on an NVMe for Xavier NX. I will really appreciate you take a look and if possible make one of your spectacular down to earth tutorials so the community could start boot and work with Xavier NX directly from NVMe drives. Thanks in advance!!!!

[@JetsonHacks]

Here's a video about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqOlfImYhNKDe80

[@christopherrasmussen8718]

Late to the show. Put the SSD in the day I got the Xavier NA. Now it will earn it's money!

[@JetsonHacks]

Excellent. Thanks for watching!

[@ops5454]

Hi Jim, What modifications will be needed if I want to boot from a 2.5'' SSD and not a NVM SSD? considering the device is /dev/sda and the partition is /dev/sda1. I'm assuming the first modification will be changing /dev/nvme0n1p1 to /dev/sda1 in all the places it appears on the script. How about the parameter CHROOT_PATH="/nvmeroot" under the file setssdroot.sh? should it be changed? Thanks

[@JetsonHacks]

I am not sure, I have not tried it. Good luck on your project!

[@williamevers382]

Would this work on an Orin? Im trying to get it running from ssd but I don't have access to a host computer for the method in the video for the Orin. Thanks!

[@JetsonHacks]

If you don't have access to a host computer, you should not try this method. It might work, but if it doesn't you'd probably have to flash from a host machine. Thanks for watching!

[@mandayugana]

I have a Xavier NX in hand a week ago. I'm planning to 3D print an enclosure for it. Does Jetson Nano enclosure fit a Jetson Xavier NX?

[@JetsonHacks]

It depends on the case, and how it handles the fan of the NX versus the passive heat sink of the Nano. Also, the NX has a plastic base which holds the antenna, the Nano does not. Typically you need to remove the plastic base, and use a different mounting method for the antenna. Good luck on your project, and thanks for watching!

[@ashishnair1]

@jetsonhacks, im looking to find a good storage solution for Nvidea Xavier with Auvidea X200 carrier board. I need around 2TB storage with 40 Gigabitpersecond transfer speed. what would you suggest in this case? I tried looking for such speeds and couldnt find anything

[@JetsonHacks]

I do not have a good suggestion. Please ask this question on the official NVIDIA Jetson Xavier forum, where a large group of developers and NVIDIA engineers share their experience. Thanks for watching!

[@anandmoon5701]

Most effective way to copy from sd card to NVMe drive is to flash the new image using # sudo dd bs=1M if=your_image_file_name.img of=/dev/nvme0 So that the symbolic link are preserved for libraries and device nodes.

[@JetsonHacks]

Thank you for sharing, and thanks for watching!

[@CodingScientist]

Dear Jim, after following the above instructions, all the files / programs will be automatically saved in SSD right ?

[@JetsonHacks]

It's like any other system, the files will be saved where you specify. If set the SSD to be the rootfs, things that are being saved on the rootfs are saved there. Thanks for watching!

[@CodingScientist]

JetsonHacks thank you Jim, this helps, I just ordered NX, expecting by next week, played a lot with Nano, now its time to upgrade. Learnt several stuffs from you. Good Job 👍

[@CodingScientist]

@@JetsonHacks Hey Jim, quick question, after setting up SSD, the OS will still boot from SD card right ? after the OS boot, the computing speed will improve based on SSD ? or we are using SSD just for storage of data ? can I install and run Python IDE directly from SSD ?

[@ddopfer9698]

Jim, please, does this approach to booting from SSD work for a J Xavier NX production module as well?

[@JetsonHacks]

You should be able to setup the JNX production module to boot from the SSD using the official NVIDIA SDK Manager now (JetPack 4.6 v2).

[@ddopfer9698]

@@JetsonHacks thanks for the reply. That would be JetPack 4.6.1? Or 4.6.2 (does that exist?)

[@grima0482]

Does the Carmel CPU in the Xavier NX also support armhf / ARM 32 Bit? I would like to buy this device for emulation and gaming purposes and box86 would make it possible to also emulate x86 Windows games, however box86 only works on 32 Bit environments, requiring an armhf chroot on the Xavier NX. I have looked through some lscpu results online but the lscpu version on the Xavier seems to be older and therefore does not display if the CPU supports 32 Bit OP-Mode aswell.

[@JetsonHacks]

This answer to this question is too long for this format. Please ask this question on the official NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX forum, where a large group of developers and NVIDIA engineers share their experience.

[@nazreenrusli2225]

Hi Jim, I just try your code this morning into my jetson xavier nx with pre-installed jetpack4.4.... However, I've followed the steps until copy rootfs. Then it gave me errors so then, I shut it down and removed the M.2 SSD from the jetson... but now, I cant boot my jetson. Can you help me...please.. I have checked from host PC...and it was detected and in recovery mode.. the issue now is how to boot to the normal way without M.2 SSD mounted on it

[@JetsonHacks]

The Jetson should not be in recovery mode. How did you make it go into recovery mode?

[@EntropyOfTime]

hi was wondering if some could help me figure out how to get the fan on the jetson xavier to turn on ?

[@JetsonHacks]

Please ask this question on the official NVIDIA Jetson Xavier forum, where a large group of developers and NVIDIA engineers share their experience.

[@johnny_123b]

Does this make all apps open and run faster also? Is there anything that SD is still being used for, besides booting?

[@JetsonHacks]

The SD card is not being used for anything other than booting. The SSD is faster than a SD card, so anytime you are using the SSD, it is faster than the SD card.

[@gengxianghuang8299]

Hello, jetson Tx2 with jetpack4.4 has anyone tried?

[@qubex]

SSD actually stands for “Solid State Drive”, not “Solid State Disk” (as it isn’t a disk at all).

[@JetsonHacks]

Thanks for the information, and thanks for watching!

[@fredwilson5931]

Microsoft WSL does not support USB pass through. Is there a way to get this to work on a WSL Ubuntu system?

[@JetsonHacks]

I do not have any experience with Microsoft WSL, so I don't have anything to share. If you can run the NVIDIA SDK Manager, there are options so that you can boot the Jetson from the SSD. However, the SDK manager probably has issues with USB pass through also. NVIDIA is pretty much set on using an Ubuntu machine.

[@alexissalguero5751]

Do you guys know how to reset the Ubuntu password on the eMMC storage?, Cant find recovery mode on the AGX. I don’t mind losing all my data just can’t seem to access recovery mode. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[@JetsonHacks]

This video covers setting the Jetson AGX Xavier into recovery mode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hp_Gm6lse9SEsLc

[@alexissalguero5751]

Thank u🤙🏽

[@joeurban2069]

any idea why videos are not running properly in AGX. I did the same thing in ur video i just opned the AGX with jetpack 4.6 and 250 ssd

[@JetsonHacks]

To which videos are you referring?

[@joeurban2069]

@@JetsonHacks this video I have AGX every time O tried to flash the unit, it tells me the unit is not in recovery mode or the host machine is not connected to it via type C??? Please help me out! I could see the AGX using lsusb and it’s in recovery mode too

[@JetsonHacks]

@@joeurban2069 How are you trying to flash the AGX. Are you using a native Ubuntu PC or through a VM?

[@joeurban2069]

@@JetsonHacks thanks a lot for your replies The problem was with the ssd it needs to be formatted The problem I am having that now I have. Agar H01 and I can not flash with another jetpack so bad experience with seeed product wasted too much money I will never buy thire products again

[@JetsonHacks]

@@joeurban2069 Sorry to hear that. You should be able to use the SDK manager to flash the Seeed to run from the SSD.

[@adelhammouda6563]

i was following all the steps but when i reboot the jetson it will stop showing anything ,i can't understand the problem i hope you can help me

[@JetsonHacks]

You should look at the output of the serial debug console to help determine what is wrong: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gajTqZutaZaKa5I Are you using a NVIDIA Xavier NX Developer Kit?

[@AbdylaV]

Can you make a video with read/write tests for this disk?

[@JetsonHacks]

No thanks. It performs about the same as when it is in a laptop PC. In a comment here, John Dodd said " I'm now getting disk access times of 2.2Gb/s compared to 30Mb/s on the sdcard." There is a thread on the Jetson Xavier NX forum 'Devkit NVMe performance' if you are interested in numbers. Thanks for watching!

[@JGoodwin]

@@JetsonHacks I appreciate you focusing your attention on material that's hard to get other places. Thanks for all your videos!

[@JetsonHacks]

You are welcome, and thanks for watching!

[@maikdean8490]

Hi Jim I have dslr sensor that is 45 megapixel is it possible to run more then that please tell me the limit on this ?

[@JetsonHacks]

I don't understand your question.

[@maikdean8490]

JetsonHacks I have Nikon DSLR camera I have 45 megapixel sensor can I run it on Jetson ? For streaming or it’s to much date

[@johnny_123b]

Does this include swap partition?

[@JetsonHacks]

No. Thanks for watching!

[@Patrick79810]

After this, should we still need to keep SD card in SD card slot? Could we remove it?

[@JetsonHacks]

The Xavier NX boots from the SD card. You will need to keep it inserted during the boot process. Thanks for watching!

[@Patrick79810]

@@JetsonHacks I got it. Thanks a lot. I think that in order to boot directly from NVME, we would need to modify cboot... I will try to find solution later.

[@samermansour7162]

I followed the tutorial and everything seemed to match what you have displayed. I rebooted, but it's taking like forever. Is that normal?

[@samermansour7162]

Update: It is working fine, I don't have the autoreboot feature. I was actually waiting all this time for nothing and when I cut the power off and plugged it back in, it worked fine!

[@JetsonHacks]

I'm glad you were able to get it to work!

[@wolfvonversweber1109]

Well, the setting didn't "go back" to 10W, you changed the setting in the OS that is no longer used, after you cloned it. ;)

[@JetsonHacks]

Excellent! I'm glad someone was paying attention. Thanks for pointing that out, and thanks for watching!

[@nickmarsh9384]

Hello Jim, I followed your video and was stopped at this statement : "Once this service is installed, the rootfs will be on the SSD. If you upgrade to a newer version of L4T using OTA updates (using the NVIDIA .deb repository), you will need to also apply those changes to the SD card that you are booting from. Typically this involves copying the /boot* directory and /lib/modules// from the SSD to the SD card. If they are different, then modules load will be 'tainted', that is, the modules version will not match the kernel version." being a noob, I checked for usage of cp, but I found rsync, can you confirm that rsync will keep the two folders the same ? is this the correct syntax ? rsync -av /lib/modules/ /media/agx/af76a8c6-61d8-4b97-9bfe-cb0da14f9a74/lib/modules/ rsync -av /boot/ /media/agx/af76a8c6-61d8-4b97-9bfe-cb0da14f9a74/boot/

[@JetsonHacks]

Try not to let statements stop you. Thanks for watching!

[@cedricvillani8502]

where is the board with the single A100 located? trying to buy one

[@JetsonHacks]

I do not know what a 'A100' means. A Jetson Nano 2GB has one camera connector if that is what you mean.

[@cedricvillani8502]

@@JetsonHacks the new DGX 2 3rd gen has 8 A100 GPU's, can run 1.2PFLOPS per/sec. Not Terra Flops but PetaFlops!! It's the fastest HPC in the world at the moment, it's 20X faster then the last gen V100, Volta. Can't believe you haven't already seen it. Does everything now, even for big data scientists, and it's only 199K. Anyway it's a fully functional out of the box solution. And they showcased a single A100 PCIe card that also had a solution on it, so not the Ampure A100 GPU 80GB card, this was a lower-cost solution that came with developer things like the Jetson NX Xavier, or TK2. I'll drop you the link for the 2020 introduction, you gotta check it out.

[@cedricvillani8502]

@@JetsonHacks kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3-lhndtnL2cr6s There ya go, announced at mobile world Congress. NVIDIA OWNS EVERYONE on commercial equipment, but youtube is full of gamers that Dont bother looking past there silly FPS’s and game cards. If you wanna do anything NEW or cutting edge us gotta go big or go home, otherwise it's just a hobby, trying to do things people could do a decade ago

[@JetsonHacks]

Not sure what you are referencing. This is a Jetson channel. If you mean an Orin based Jetson board using the technology you mention, those won't be shipping until 2022.

[@Vilal_Ali]

@JetsonHacks hi after following these steps for Jetson NX J2022 16gb facing this error Jetson Xavier NX module imx219_board_setup error

[@JetsonHacks]

Do you have a CSI camera attached to the Jetson?

[@Vilal_Ali]

@@JetsonHacks No I have not attached any camera. After the following steps in the video. I am facing this error. Could you please help me how make my device workable or we can make it in reset factory mod? am trying this also but not working it still.

[@JetsonHacks]

@@Vilal_Ali The error is stating that you do not have a camera attached. It is to be expected when there is no camera. It is not fatal. To set the Xavier back to stock, use the official NVIDIA SDK Manager.

[@Vilal_Ali]

@@JetsonHacks could you please write the steps for where and how i can do this. on NVIDIA SDK Manager where is lots of think i cant under which one is for my device.

[@JetsonHacks]

@@Vilal_Ali Please follow the Seeed Studios documentation: wiki.seeedstudio.com/reComputer_J2021_J202_Flash_Jetpack/

[@tonyywarren348]

I'm try to now download docker images from nvidia and I think they are targeted for the sd card still

[@JetsonHacks]

I don't know what that means. The ones I have run off the NVMe SSD.

[@tonyywarren348]

@@JetsonHacks I had to edit config for the docker daemon, so nvidia containers are downloaded to SSD. Perhaps docker service runs prior to the NVMe SSD mount.

[@erizalmayhendra4618]

Hi sir, I have successfully followed this tutorial. Now I want to restore the root FileSystem to the SD card, how do I do it?

[@JetsonHacks]

Please read the script file setup-service.sh github.com/jetsonhacks/rootOnNVMe/blob/master/setup-service.sh Good luck!

[@erizalmayhendra4618]

Thank you sir.

[@whothefoxcares]

For the benefit of *all ARM SBC* users, can any ubuntu based system run with *root on USB or NVME?* (if every Raspberry sold licensed your scripts, you could be famous, wealthy, and live large ;-)

[@JetsonHacks]

RPi users can do something similar. Fortunately, I am already famous, wealthy and live large so I don't have to sell scripts for a living. Thanks for watching!

[@I-_-I_SB]

THANKS FOR YOUR BEING A GREAT PERSON {i hope🤗im correct} BUT I THINK YOUR TEACHINGS ARE A HUMANITARIAN ACT, i love it. \-_-/

[@SenorQuichotte]

Using ssd then no wifi? Ssd and usb drivers dont load with kernel. They load after with modules

[@JetsonHacks]

I don't understand what you are saying. In the video, we go over how to set the system to run from the SSD using a systemd service. Thanks for watching!

[@badejavuade6774]

I think the wifi uses the Key E and the SSD uses Key M . I don’t see why both shouldn’t work together

[@JetsonHacks]

They both work together.

[@TheOleHermit]

Isn't the 16GB eMMC for the specific purpose of replacing the uSD card as the boot device, because it is much faster and less vulnerable? 🤔 Then, as you have demonstrated, everything else ideally runs on the NVMe SSD? Shouldn't the question be, "How can we make the eMMC the boot device, instead of the microSD reader?"😎

[@JetsonHacks]

I do not understand what you are stating. The Xavier NX module on the developer kit does not have eMMC. The production module Xavier NX has eMMC instead of SD. eMMC and SD cards are about the same speed, they both are the same type of flash memory.

[@TheOleHermit]

@@JetsonHacks Yes, I saw that distinction on Nvidia's website, as well. But, if you look at the Xavier NX module specs, it indicates 16 GB eMMC. www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/jetson-store/ It also states, "Jetson Xavier NX is production-ready and supports all popular AI frameworks." Confusing, isn't it? I'll check lsblk to determine whether my NX module has eMMC. Update: 'lsblk' indicates that the eMMC doesn't exist, so I apologize to everyone for the misinformation. BTW, does anyone know how to modify/move the panel/menubar to the bottom of the screen? I've got a 50" 4K TV (for multiple VNC windows) on top of my desk and can only see reflections of the ceiling light.🥺 Thanks! Stay safe!

[@gn7026]

Hi Jim, what is the recommended way to install all updates (including kernel updates) when using this method? I have an M.2 NVMe ssd attached to my xavier NX. I tried following your instructions for native ssd boot in your other video (kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqOlfImYhNKDe80), but it seems I cannot natively boot from my ssd because it is a Gen4 PCIe and it is not being recognized. I'd like to know what is the best way to apply all updates when using this root on ssd method.

[@JetsonHacks]

I don't have a good answer here. I generally have flashed everything and started again on each new update.

[@gn7026]

@@JetsonHacks Thank you Jim, I’ll do that too. With NGC it’s not a big deal to backup data and re flash everything.

[@wolfpackgaming2492]

Can you download steam on it and test out some games ?

[@JetsonHacks]

I don't know anything about games, but check this out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpW4k55ue82Gbc0

[@wolfpackgaming2492]

JetsonHacks yeah I saw that video . It was really impressive . I even asked him if he could make a video installing steam and testing out some games

[@ivanocj]

05:38 DOOM VOICE

[@JetsonHacks]

Thanks for watching!

[@prototype9000]

Why assume everyone is going to be a developer

[@JetsonHacks]

Because this is a channel for Jetson developers. I wish all questions were this easy. Thanks for watching!

[@prototype9000]

@@JetsonHacks dont assumr only developers are watching

[@JetsonHacks]

@@prototype9000 You mean other people are watching too? Maybe I should shut the channel down to stop them!

[@prototype9000]

@@JetsonHacks especially the space aliens

[@JetsonHacks]

@@prototype9000 Thanks for the info! I am now wearing my tin foil hat full time.

[@mostafamohsen250]

If i wanted to stop booting from the SSD and go back to only booting from the micro SD card only, how could i do that after I've already done the steps in this video? The catch is i need to have the SSD plugged in but stop booting from it -- i need to format it. Thanks!

[@JetsonHacks]

If you want to boot from SD again, remove the file /etc/setssdroot.conf from the SD card.

[@mostafamohsen250]

@@JetsonHacks Perfect, thanks!!!