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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...
1. Tech Support mode.
telnet (root)
# ls
bin dev init proc sys usr
boot_flash etc lib root sysroot var
data frontview mnt sbin tmp
# cat /proc/partitions
8 0 488386584 sda
8 16 125440 sdb
8 17 125333 sdb1
# find / -name "vpd"
/boot_flash/vpd
/dev/vpd
# ls -lh /dev/vpd
crw------- 1 60, 0 Mar 19 16:21 vpd
# ls -l /boot_flash/vpd
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 19 16:36 /boot_flash/vpd
# cat /boot_flash/vpd
# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)
# cd boot_flash
# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 19 16:36 vpd
# cat vpd
# rm vpd
# ls -l
# find / -name "vpd"
/dev/vpd
1. Tech Support mode.
telnet (root)
It doesn't look like you tried to mount the real boot flash.
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
If that works, then try
ls /mnt
You should see something like this:
csums.md5 kernel.up root.tlz version.txt
initrd.gz ldlinux.sys supplmnt.tlz vpd
kernel memtest syslinux.cfg
Let us know what you see there.
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