Jetson Nano 2gb not showing up on Dashboard

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Had same issue with a 4gb, sd version.

Fixed it with a live Ubuntu 18.04 (I guess it would work also with a more recent version, but I already had flashed that one to a stick)

my process :

$ sudo add-apt-repository universe
$ sudo apt install nodejs npm git libxml2-utils
$ sudo npm i -g n
$ sudo n 12

close terminal; open a new one to refresh PATH as node has changed location

$ sudo npm i -g node-gyp
$ git clone https://github.com/balena-os/jetson-flash.git
$ cd jetson-flash
$ npm i 
$ cd node-modules/resin-image-fs/node-modules/ext2fs/
$ node-gyp rebuild
$ cd ../../../..
$ ./bin/cmd.js -f /path/to/balena.img -m jetson-nano-qspi-sd

Notes :

  • I’ve put the balena.img file on another usb stick.
  • n is a node version manager, it helps selecting a specific version of node (12 in our case)
  • for node-gyp to work you’ll also need build-essentials (and maybe python) but they were already installed as dependencies of npm.
  • previously tried the SDK route, but it didn’t worked on a live Ubuntu as it was requiring lots of free space and tried to install tons of useless stuffs on the host machine.
  • the jetson needs to be in “debug” mode, meaning on my dk board bridging the FC REC and GND pins on the side of the board below the jetson module.
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