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Firmware Recovery Problems with Readynas 104
Dear Community, I have some Problems with My ReadyNAS 104 (Actually it is a diskless model 10400). It started some time ago when I have seen that a Volume Properties Page and some other pages in...
m4ly wrote:So I thought that I have to try the USB Recovery of the Firmware. So I prepared 4 or 5 USB Sticks with 6.10.5 and tried the USB Recovery. With 3 of them it didn't work, but finally with one of them it started to boot...but instead of flash the memory with the new firmware it got me only to the Tech Support Mode (Telnet)
It going to telnet like that most likely means you did something wrong, like put the x86_64 firmware .img on the USB key, when the RN104 is an ARM system and requires the arm firmware .img, or you put the firmware zip file on when you need to extract the zip contents and put the .img file on the USB key. If it dropping into telnet mode had been caused by bad flash then your firmware downgrade using the web admin interface wouldn't have worked.
m4ly wrote:Why I can't normally use the firmware higher than 6.10.1?
A number of people are reporting problems with 6.10.5, however others like me have found the web admin interface on that firmware to work 100% reliably.
As for problems on 6.10.2 to 6.10.4 that could be a web browser caching issue where your web browser has cached the web admin interface for a different firmware release leading to problems displaying it. Clearing the web browser cache or using an incognito/private window should resolve that.
Dear mdgm,
thanks a lot for the answer.
mdgm wrote:
It going to telnet like that most likely means you did something wrong, like put the x86_64 firmware .img on the USB key, when the RN104 is an ARM system and requires the arm firmware .img, or you put the firmware zip file on when you need to extract the zip contents and put the .img file on the USB key. If it dropping into telnet mode had been caused by bad flash then your firmware downgrade using the web admin interface wouldn't have worked.I used USB Recovery tool to create the USB Stick with Firmware.
The files that are on the USB Stick at the moment are:
initrd-recovery.gz
NTGR_USBBOOT_INFO.txt
ReadyNASOS-6.10.5-arm.imguImage-recovery
So I assume that I have used a correct firmware for the ARM based System.
As for problems on 6.10.2 to 6.10.4 that could be a web browser caching issue where your web browser has cached the web admin interface for a different firmware release leading to problems displaying it. Clearing the web browser cache or using an incognito/private window should resolve that.I tried the access on different Computers, Laptops and Browsers. I also tried the private mode on different browsers and I still was getting the page reloading issue and blank Volume Page.
mdgm wrote:If it dropping into telnet mode had been caused by bad flash then your firmware downgrade using the web admin interface wouldn't have worked.
But why upgrading the software to 6.10.4 or 6.10.5 via web admin interface is causing the problem ? So maybe there is a problem with the flash memory ? Is there a way to manualy move the firmware image or extracted files to the flash memory?
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