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Corrupt root and cannot setup
Am looking for help to start my NAS again. I am in the stage where I already did a hard factory reset, with the pin at the back. Even that, when I boot, I get "corrupt root" message on RAIDar. Follow...
That disk is already partitioned so as a precaution we gave the corrupt root error rather than blindly formatting it. Some users are unaware that the NAS needs to wipe the disks.
A factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything) or hooking the disk back up to a PC and deleting the partitions off it would have resolved this.Seeing that you didn't have any data on the disk I just wiped the partition table off the disk and rebooted the NAS. It should do a brief check of the hard disk, enter a 10 minute countdown and if you haven't chosen the RAID mode using RAIDar (or unplugged the power to abort) by then proceed to wipe the disk, partition it, setup the RAID, install the OS etc.
Hi, I rebooted the NAS and inserted a blank HDD. I still get the corrupt root message from raidar.
Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cww4kl03kxvszjw/Screenshot%202016-08-24%2021.37.36.png?dl=0
I have again set it to tech mode with same code I gave you earlier. I will leave it overnight if you would like to access.
Thanks again for the help.
That disk is already partitioned so as a precaution we gave the corrupt root error rather than blindly formatting it. Some users are unaware that the NAS needs to wipe the disks.
A factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything) or hooking the disk back up to a PC and deleting the partitions off it would have resolved this.
Seeing that you didn't have any data on the disk I just wiped the partition table off the disk and rebooted the NAS. It should do a brief check of the hard disk, enter a 10 minute countdown and if you haven't chosen the RAID mode using RAIDar (or unplugged the power to abort) by then proceed to wipe the disk, partition it, setup the RAID, install the OS etc.
I now have access to the admin page and the status is showing "healthy". All services seems to be restored, though I haven't started copying data back onto the disks. Thank you very much for the help. Solved !
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