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AlexSem
Mar 17, 2026Aspirant
Help needed: ReadyNAS NVX (RNDX4000) Restore to RAIDiator 4.2 - Empty /boot_flash
Hi everyone, I’m reaching out because I made a major mistake while attempting to upgrade my ReadyNAS NVX (RNDX4000) from v4.2 to OS6. The upgrade failed, and now I'm trying to restore the unit ba...
- Mar 21, 2026
AlexSem wrote:
Do you see any possible options for recovering the NAS?Check your PMs (click on the envelope icon in the upper right of the forum page).
AlexSem
Mar 19, 2026Aspirant
4. USB recovery with OS4.2.31 #2
SYSLINUX 3.73 2009-01-25 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin
Loading kernel............................................
Loading initrd.gz...........................................ready.
[Hardware Error]: No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.
[Hardware Error]: Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.
ahci 0000:03:00.0: masking port_map 0x7 -> 0x3
Searching for external boot flash device...sdc
Searching for internal boot flash device...sdb
cp: cannot stat '/boot_flash/vpd': No such file or directory
Formatting USB boot flash device...
heads: 4 sectors: 62 cylinders: 1011 start 0
done
Writing internal USB boot flash device...done
Power down.
5. OSReinstall #2
check disk format and do gpt conversion...
Extracting root image...done
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Running ReadyNAS Universal Startup Script...
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...done.
quitting on signal 15...
Setting disk write cache policy: sda.
awk: cannot open /proc/sys/dev/boot/info (No such file or directory)
Setting up LVM Volume Groups...done.
Checking all file systems...done
Setting kernel variables.
Mounting local filesystems...
/c
Turning on quotas.
Initializing random number generator... done.
Starting frontview boot scripts: frontview_rc.
Starting portmap...done.
Starting system log daemon: syslogd.
Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.
Starting kernel log daemon: klogd.
grep: /proc/sys/dev/boot/info: No such file or directory
grep: /proc/sys/dev/boot/info: No such file or directory
grep: /proc/sys/dev/boot/info: No such file or directory
grep: /proc/sys/dev/boot/info: No such file or directory
grep: /proc/sys/dev/boot/info: No such file or directory
Starting periodic command scheduler: cron.
Starting Samba daemons: smbd.
RAIDiator 4.2.31 [192.168.1.137]
6. Normal mode
Starting the boot process...
Loading kernel modules...sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
done
Bringing up RAID arrays...done
Bringing up network...eth0.done
Switching root to RAID device.
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Running ReadyNAS Universal Startup Script...
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...done.
quitting on signal 15...
Setting disk write cache policy: sda.
awk: cannot open /proc/sys/dev/boot/info (No such file or directory)
Setting up LVM Volume Groups...done.
Checking all file systems...done
Setting kernel variables.
Mounting local filesystems...
/c
Turning on quotas.
Initializing random number generator... done.
Starting frontview boot scripts: frontview_rc.
Starting portmap...done.
Starting system log daemon: syslogd.
Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.
Starting kernel log daemon: klogd.
grep: /proc/sys/dev/boot/info: No such file or directory
grep: /proc/sys/dev/boot/info: No such file or directory
grep: /proc/sys/dev/boot/info: No such file or directory
grep: /proc/sys/dev/boot/info: No such file or directory
grep: /proc/sys/dev/boot/info: No such file or directory
Starting periodic command scheduler: cron.
Starting Samba daemons: smbd.
RAIDiator 4.2.31 [192.168.1.137]
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