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Duo v1 will not boot - No Disk Detected
Hi, I've just been given a friends readynas duo to fix because I "know about computers" and have recently had assistance fixing a pro2, my friend would like to try and get the unit working, it has ...
Sorry chirpa, thanks for letting me know. I just read some of your other posts :-(
I have pm'd siigna.
Not wanting to give up I have had another look. I found an old boot log off a different duo v1. You can see the system booting with the initial boot messages (see below).
The duo I'm having issues with doesn't even have the initial boot messages, it just goes straight into the flashing lights and nothing appears on the serial console.
Starting to think it's a dead unit. Is there any way to revive it? Remove the battery? put a short across a couple of pins? (what pins?)
I have pm'd siigna.
Not wanting to give up I have had another look. I found an old boot log off a different duo v1. You can see the system booting with the initial boot messages (see below).
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Welcome to iboot 1.00a043
built 15:54 2008-10-01
OC[7f]
Reason:
bid = 01
ECC ON
Ldk
Ldi
zlist 0 802f115c
zone 802f0f14, name Normal
zlist 1 802f1170
zone 802f0ccc, name DMA
zlist 2 802f1184
zone 802f0f14, name Normal
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc rw raid=noautodetect profile=2
kernel profiling enabled (shift: 2)
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 3, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 2, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 226176k/262144k available (2592k kernel code, 35888k reserved, 656k data, 96k init, 0k highmem)
init_mm.pgd 8f0ff000
Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 16384k freed
The duo I'm having issues with doesn't even have the initial boot messages, it just goes straight into the flashing lights and nothing appears on the serial console.
Starting to think it's a dead unit. Is there any way to revive it? Remove the battery? put a short across a couple of pins? (what pins?)
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