NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor - Flashing the board with GUI installer

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This section provides a guide to flashing the Jetson AGX Thor developer kit through the SDK Manager GUI. The Jetson AGX Thor boots natively from its onboard NVMe drive.

Note

Note: Jetson AGX Thor has no eMMC, NFS, or SD card support. It is possible to flash and boot from USB, but this requires a different setup. For details, see [Flashing and Booting from USB].

If you wish to customize OS components before flashing, see Compiling Source Code and Flashing Board From Cmdline.

This section assumes that you already followed the Getting Started and Installing JetPack sections.

Step 1: Set Board in Recovery Mode

To flash Jetson Thor AGX, it must be placed in Force Recovery Mode. Use the following steps and Figure 1:

Figure 1. Jetson Thor AGX devkit front buttons

1. Ensure the device is connected to the power adapter, but powered off.
2. Connect USB-C cable between your host computer and Thor's USB-C port.
3. Press and hold the middle button (Force Recovery).
4. While holding the Force Recovery button, press and hold the left button (Power).
5. Release both buttons.

The board will now reboot into Force Recovery Mode.

To verify the device is in recovery mode, run:

lsusb

If Jetson Thor is in recovery mode, you'll see a line like:

Bus 001 Device 011: ID 0955:7026 NVIDIA Corp. APX

Note

Note: Product ID 7026 corresponds to Jetson AGX Thor (P3834-0008).

Step 2: Flash to NVMe

Follow steps 1 through 3 of the Installing JetPack section. When you reach step 3-L, the SDK Manager will open the flash configuration window (Figure 2).

Figure 2. NVIDIA SDK Manager Flash Prompt

If the board is detected correctly, proceed with these settings:

• Setup Mode: Select Manual Setup - Jetson AGX Thor.
• OEM Configuration:
  • Runtime - username/password creation will occur on first boot.
  • Pre-Config - set username/password before flashing (Figure 3).

Figure 3. User and Password prompt for OEM Pre-Config

• Storage Device: Select the onboard NVMe (only supported target storage).

When ready, click the Flash button. The process may take several minutes. If successful, the SDK Manager displays the completion window (see Figure 4).

Figure 4: Success window in SDKManager

Step 3: Boot

After flashing, Jetson AGX Thor will automatically boot from NVMe. Connect the following peripherals (see Figure 5):

Figure 5. Jetson Thor AGX IO ports

• Display to the DisplayPort o HDMI connector
• Keyboard and mouse to USB-A ports
• (Optional) Ethernet cable

On boot:

• If you chose Pre-Config, you will go directly to the Ubuntu login prompt.
• If you chose Runtime, you will be guided through the OEM Configuration Wizard to set up username and password.

Once complete, JetPack 7.0 will be ready to use on Jetson AGX Thor.