NVIDIA Jetson - "Please download boot firmware before you start your installation"

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Hey there! I’m trying to install Ubuntu Server 22.04 on our NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano.

Visiting the Ubuntu “Install Ubuntu on NVIDIA Jetson” page, then selecting “Jetson Orin Nano Series” on the left side, we get two download links:

  1. Download 22.04
  2. Download Jetson Orin Nano boot firmware

Above these two, it says, “Please download boot firmware before you start your installation.”

However, the docs don’t say what to do with the firmware. Extracting it gives the typical NVIDIA firmware tooling, and the NVIDIA docs push you to run tools/jetson-disk-image-creator.sh using the steps this user presented here. However, in that case, I don’t understand the point of the Ubuntu Server image…?

In addition, those NVIDIA docs are for JetPack 5.x, whereas I’m hoping to use the 6.x (36.x) firmware.

Does anyone have a link to some Ubuntu documentation on this front? What should I do with the “boot firmware” tooling once I have it extracted?

Thank you in advance for any assistance! :smile:

note: I omitted the default template, as this isn’t an issue with Ubuntu itself, but rather an ambiguity in the given instructions.

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A Quote from Nvidia

Your Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit comes with an old firmware flashed at the factory, which is NOT compatible with JetPack 6.x.

Therefore, you must upgrade to the latest firmware, before inserting SD card flashed with JetPack 6.x image (unless the firmware previuosly updated).

Not sure if you have seen this yet:
https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/learn/get-started-jetson-orin-nano-devkit#intro

I’m told a native ubuntu host is needed.