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Why does NAS firmware update if unit is booted diskless?
I have reported before that booting a ReadyNAS with no drives installed resulted in the firmware in flash being updated. The response fomr the Netgear mod was that that was not possible, I beg t...
Was there something specific you wanted to point out in that boot code? Note that I'm not interested in the method it uses, I want to know why someone has chosen that it does this automatic update at all. I did not intentionally update it and did not want an update to occur. I just booted it with no drives installed. It is, as best I can tell, contrary to all the Netgear documentation.
As I said in my original message, I have seen this occur on an RN4200V2 and Ultra4 converted to OS6, and also on an RN312. I can understand that the converted legacy devices could have an issue, since I'm sure there isn't a lot of testing going on with them. But the 312 is a native OS6 device.
Na, Just that support doesn't know what they are talking about for the most part.
So I posted the init to show you how they actual dev's did things, What you see is the actual
conditions scripted by the software team that causes the system to try to correct itself.
The readynas os itself has services in debian that auto run at boot that self update itself.
Overall they took the approach to code in micro automated management with the assumption
that we are inexperienced and has simple methods to self manage the unit.
However I have not seen them code in version control. Since we are all told that we need to update
to a speific version before applying the next. Whom do not listen end up in using the usbbootrecovery
or brinking the internal flash.
But you can turn services of that enable the self update.
Deleting the startup entries usualy casues them to return.
The interal flash has its own boot manager that boots to /dev/sda and does the automating of installing itself,
Thus enabling the system to update itself.
The update server provides the recommended update from any given version and that's where they would get it from.
Not sure what the relevance of the USB Boot Recovery init file is. The init file in the firmware itself is different.
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