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ReadyNAS 2100 bricked
I'll confess to have been a bit stupid. I picked up a pair of ReadyNAS 2100s off eBay recently, one of which is running OS 6 and the other OS 4. I wanted both to run OS 6 and found instructions to ...
Okay, so I gave the suggestion of grabbing a 4.x drive from another NAS (I've got a 1500 which has escaped my idiocy, thankfully!) and that didn't work either. So I guess I'm stuck unless I can find a USB stick that actually works. I don't suppose anyone knows of one, do they?
I have two older Lexor "TwistTurn2" 2GB that work great, but most people are likely to just chuck them instead of selling them, and the smallest currently for sale seems to be 16GB. I have bought some cheap 8GB ones on Amazon that also worked the one time I tried (just to see if they would). Try to stay away from anything larger than 8GB (though some have had luck with larger, many haven't) and definitely not USB3. But I don't own a 2100, and don't know if some models are more finicky than others.
Thanks for the help. I'm currently trying again in the hope that some of this information will get me to a solution!
Just for my info, at what point did you release the backup (or reset) button when doing the recovery? As this is a rackmount, the instructions tell me to use reset and if I hold it for too long it goes into the boot menu, which I don't know if I want or not - although I'm presuming not at this point. If I release before then, the fans spin down a bit and the box sits there and thus far the only USB drive which appears to do anything differently is the SanDisk Cruzer and I'm not sure if that's down to the CD emulating bit that I can't get rid of.
Also, what files were on the drive? I only get these four:
- initrd.gz
- kernel
- RAIDiator-x86-4.2.31
- syslinux.cfg
I'm a bit surprised that syslinux.exe isn't on there, should it be?
I'll keep chipping away at it for now. Not like it's going to be much use to me otherwise!
Actually, scratch all that... I read on another thread that the USB creation tool is pretty old and it might be that it needed to run in compatibility mode. I tried it with XP SP3 compatibility and it started to do something different. And then it shut down. So I booted the box back up (minus the stick) and... it's only appeared in RAIDar!!!!
I've only gone and fixed it!
Thanks for your help and pointers, I'm not sure I'd have managed it without you!
leopold005 wrote:Also, what files were on the drive? I only get these four:
- initrd.gz
- kernel
- RAIDiator-x86-4.2.31
- syslinux.cfg
Those files are on the USB key, plus a hidden file that is the syslinux bootloader.
leopold005 wrote:
I'm a bit surprised that syslinux.exe isn't on there, should it be?
syslinux.exe is used to create the syslinux bootloader using a Windows machine. It doesn't go on the USB key, though there's no harm to having it on there.
Ah... No sooner did I think I had this thing fixed and it seems I've hit another wall. I can't set the thing up because Frontview gives me absolutely nothing to work with:
This is what I'm seeing in RAIDAR. The box booting up shows the two disks I have installed, but then it changes to a box. Also, it doesn't seem to know what hardware it's working with at any point:
Now I've done some digging and it seems like the EEPROM has messed up as part of the USB recovery process and that this means I need the intervention of one of the lovely people at Netgear. Thing is, is this going to be doable on such an old bit of kit and, if so, is it going to be expensive?
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