What could be causing the final status to failed

[isaacporras]

Hi,
I'm currently flashing my custom carrier board (with Orin NX 8GB SOM) with a machine based on p3509-a02-p3767-0000. When I flash using the initrd-flash at the last step it keeps showing Final status: FAILED without any apparent reason (all the previous steps finished successfully). I saw in the script code that that status is a cat from final_status=$(cat $mnt/flashpkg/status). I wanted to know what could be causing this error

== Step 5: Waiting for final status from device at 2023-08-07T11:32:26-06:00 == Waiting for USB storage device flashpkg from 8217f607...[/dev/sdb] Unmounted /dev/sdb. Final status: FAILED Successfully finished at 2023-08-07T11:32:29-06:00 Host-side log: log.initrd-flash.2023-08-07-10.53.01

[madisongh]

There should be more detail in the logs, particularly the device-side one that should have been copied over during step 5.

[isaacporras]

In the device-logs-2023-08-10-11.51.46 folder I can see two files:

• bootloader.log: is completely empty
• export-nvme0n1.log
  Maybe it is not being able to write the file correctly and that is why it is reporting the error?

[madisongh]

The empty bootloader.log doesn't sound good; updating the boot firmware is probably what failed.

One thing to try is to use ./doflash.sh --spi-only to directly flash the boot firmware into the flash. If that succeeds, you may need to repeat the initrd flashing, but use --skip-bootloader on that step.

[dwalkes]

Follow-up thread in #1423