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Cheppetto
Oct 02, 2017Aspirant
6.8.1 on legacy RNS6U boot issues - upgraded usb package?
As i updated my backup NAS RNSU6 today it stuck in shutting down. After rebboting manually it is stuck on displaying "Readynas". I would love to try an USB firmware recovery but the last version av...
- Oct 02, 2017
You’ll need to rename the OS6 firmware .img file to RAIDiator-x86-something to get it to work with USB Boot Recovery for RAIDiator-x86 systems.
However if the problem is not with the firmware internal flash then USB Boot Recovery won’t help.
There are other possibilities e.g. a bad disk
mdgm-ntgr
Oct 02, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
You’ll need to rename the OS6 firmware .img file to RAIDiator-x86-something to get it to work with USB Boot Recovery for RAIDiator-x86 systems.
However if the problem is not with the firmware internal flash then USB Boot Recovery won’t help.
There are other possibilities e.g. a bad disk
Cheppetto
Oct 03, 2017Aspirant
Thanks a lot, will try with renaming.
I am aware that it might be a disk fault too, spin up sounded ok, and LEDs showed no error, but let's see and again thanks a lot. I thought that the package is signed with other keys that's why i asked.
So i will just rename the .bin to raidar*** and check if it works.
I am aware that it might be a disk fault too, spin up sounded ok, and LEDs showed no error, but let's see and again thanks a lot. I thought that the package is signed with other keys that's why i asked.
So i will just rename the .bin to raidar*** and check if it works.
- StephenBOct 03, 2017Guru - Experienced User
Cheppetto wrote:
So i will just rename the .bin to raidar*** and check if it works.Not raidar***
RAIDiator-x86-***
- CheppettoOct 03, 2017Aspirant
Thanks a lot for all the answers, i turned out to be a failed drive on slot 3, S.M.A.R.T. looks good for the disk, rebuild runs currently, let's see if it needs to be exchanged.
Sorry for not suspecting a drive fail, but it seems that on an Raidar unit this is not so easy to find out. In the end i was starting adding one disk after another to see which one prevents the unit from booting.
As said above thanks a lot for all the help, awesome as always
- StephenBOct 03, 2017Guru - Experienced User
Glad you solved it. Usually it is pretty easy to tell that you have a failed drive, but there are some corner cases where it isn't.
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