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Aspirant

Dec 06, 2018

4200 v1 will not enter boot mode for OS reinstall

I bought a used Readynas 4200 v1 in order to reuse the 2tb drives that I upgraded from in my other readynas systems. It didn't have a flash drive in it so I followed the USB recovery steps to creat...

Booting

wsneed

Aspirant

Dec 07, 2018

I found a flash drive that works now and I can see that it boots up to the ready screen through the VGA.

However new the problem is that it refuses to get an IP from my network. I think the onboard network ports are bad.

I'll try a add-on network card and see what happens.

StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Dec 08, 2018

wsneed wrote:

However new the problem is that it refuses to get an IP from my network. I think the onboard network ports are bad.

I'll try a add-on network card and see what happens.

First try RAIDar and see if it detects it on the network. https://kb.netgear.com/20684/ReadyNAS-Downloads

Sandshark
Sensei
Dec 08, 2018
Booting up to "READY" is not enough, if I recall correctly. I think it should get to the point you can log in. I don't run OS4.2.x on my 4200V2 any longer and also don't have a monitor connected to it. But I know runing a virtual machine ends at the login prompt.
wsneed
Aspirant
Dec 08, 2018
Started with Raidar, then swapped NICs and cables. Finaly checked routers DHCP and found nothing was being assigned.
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Dec 09, 2018
  wsneed wrote:
  
  Started with Raidar,
  
  Did RAIDar find the NAS or not?
  - wsneed
    Aspirant
    Dec 09, 2018
    I ended up creating a fresh USB recovery and then extracted the initrd.gz, kernal and root.tlz from R4toR6_6.9.4.bin replaced those files and deleted the RAIDiator-x86-4.2.31.zip file.
    
    Started RAIDar and there it was. I haven't tried to recreate it using the OS4 yet but I figure I'll give OS6 a try first.