Jetson TK1 from First Choice Keeps Failing

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by NotInControl

Thanks for the warnings Tom, any idea what caused your failures? We used a beaglebone in the past with much success, but learned that the rootfs needs to be read-only to avoid intermittent power shutdowns from corrupting the disk. Typically we plan to run our TK1 in read-only mode, but right now, we keep it in write mode because were actively developing on it.
What did you do with the 2 that didn't boot. Did you contact NVIDIA somehow?

My best guess is eMMC corruption due to yanking the power. Mounting the file system as read only probably makes this better. We didn't really have the cycles to investigate and fix this so we just ended up using another solution.