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ReadyNas NV+ Wont Boot
Hi My ReadyNas NV+ developed an issue where by It kept getting stuck at the boot stage. For a while it worked by skipping the volume check, but now also gets stuck here. I only need to boot the N...
monkeyass wrote:
Does anyone have a solution?
It might be possible to manually mount the volume using tech support mode. Have you ever used linux?
- Yes, briefly in the past, not sure when I used it last.
monkeyass wrote:
Yes, briefly in the past, not sure when I used it last.Unfortunately, the normal commands to mount the volume manually are likely to fail (since something is obviously wrong). If that's the case, then we can't help much in the forum.
If you can connect three of the disks to a PC (either SATA or with a USB adapter/dock), then you could use RAID recovery software to offload the data. R-Studio is a reasonable option. https://www.r-studio.com/
But here are the basic instructions:
After booting the NAS in tech support mode, you access it with telnet (not ssh). Log in as root - the password is infr8ntdebug.
Then use the following commands:
# start_raid.sh
# mount /dev/hdc1 /sysroot
# mount --bind /proc /sysroot /proc
# mount --bind /dev /sysroot/dev
# mount --bind /dev/pts /sysroot/dev/pts
# chroot /sysroot /bin/bash # vgscan # vgchange -a y # mount -o ro /dev/c/c /cThese start RAID, mount the OS partition, chroot, and then mount the data volume as read-only.
You could then mount a USB disk (no larger than 2 TB) and copy off files with linux commands. You could also run rsync manually to push data to the new NAS.
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