Setting the SSD as the Boot Drive

Test Equipment

Power adapter, Orin main unit, and SSD.

Test Objective

Boot the onboard computer from an external SSD.

Test Procedure

1. Format the SSD with an EXT file system.

Press the Windows key, search for disk, and select the Disks option.

Select Format.

Set Volume Name to boot, and click Next.

Select Format.

Enter the password amov and wait for formatting to finish.

2. Copy the system to the SSD.

Go to the /opt/rootOnNVMe directory.

cd /opt/rootOnNVMe/

Run ssd_boot.sh to complete the copy.

sudo ./ssd_boot.sh

When Reboot appears, the copy was successful and the system must be restarted.

Enter the restart command to boot from the SSD.

sudo reboot

To check whether the SSD booted successfully, enter the command below and verify that the 117G partition is the root path.

df -lh /