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Netgear Readynas NVX (Buisness)
I just bought the device for 30 euros and have managed to install the latest official firmware (4.2.31) with Root SSH and fixed the TLS issue. Now I am wondering moving onto flashing something more m...
Two things, first I got both usb 2 and usb 3 (16 gb) to work on MBR table with an allocation size of 4KB. Second I accidently flashed debian 12 x86, which I believe tried to flash to my boot partition (I saw the debian install bios) and now when i try to turn it on nothing happens. It is completely unresponsive, no button works and no TLL. I read that you should have taken a VPD copy which I stupidly did not. Am I ****? Should I just buy a new unit?
Does anything different happen if you boot with the reset button pushed?
A real USB recovery (that is, using the USB recovery medium described in the article I linked above) should restore everything EXCEPT the vpd. Since you don't intend to use it to run the ReadyNAS OS, you shouldn't need the vpd. It's only needed to ID the hardware to the native OS.
Sat with this the whole day and got good news. So the issue at hand was that i could not get it to boot. The power led lit up for a split second then everything went dark. No tll, No reset, No backup and the Screen didnt even light up. But somehow if I put in the original usb stick with debian 12 and powered it on normaly with no intervention it would sometimes post in tll and then die. I used this to get into the bios to then switch the usb for the recovery usb, which from the booting from bios worked. I believe my system is now back to normal.
So to do this right, as a fallback, how do I backup the VPD, forgot the link?
Awell to continue my mission how do i get the ethernet driver to work? Do you by any chance know an iso that has this working out of the box?
I have tried so far is the Alpine Linux Standard and Extended with the sky2 drivers tried the intel aswell but the maxwell gigabit ethernet card doesnt want to cooperate
The post regarding VPD backup is here: Backup-and-restore-of-VPD-file-for-legacy-ReadyNAS-running-OS6. Your symptoms make me wonder if you have a failing power supply.
Non of the buttons where responsive
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