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ReadyNAS 1000S Flash destroyed after Factory Reset [SOLVED]
Dear Forum,
i am trying for hours to revive my ReadyNAS 1000S System.
What happened:
I was on 4.00c1-p2 and decided to upgrade to 4.1.6 - Everything went smooth. After that i upgraded to 4.1.7 also everything went smooth
After upgrading to 4.1.7 all fine, checking the old settings in the Web Interface and then decided to Factory Reset the box, because i wanted to
have a clean start. Ok i did factory Reset. then the box rebootet. And here the pain started. It seems system on flash is corrupted.
I tried everything:
1) Tried ALL USB Recovery with version 3.01c1-p6.img, 4.1.6.img, 4.1.7.img all end in kernel panic
2) Tried TFTP Recovery - also kernel panic after downloading the final image
3) I read every place on inet about the recovery options - found no better suggestions
4) I opened the ReadyNas and found a COM1 Connector on the mainboard, and attached a serial console to it, now i can see all messages during boot
5) i put the internal 128MB Flashcard into a card reader and looked into the RAW file structure - it looks obvious the data is destroyed on my flash,
because firmware starts not at normal 0x200 offset, but seems to be moved to 0x4200
6) i wrote the 4.1.6 firmware to a new blank 128MB Flash card and added the bood code from USB Recovery image
7) Then i was able to boot the 4.1.6 with the recovery option (Pressing reset 30s) looked quite good, also was showing up in raidar the first time this day. i was able to set the raid-level and it was preparing the drives in the box (i was totally happy) but then after the creation of the file system
i got
EXT3 FS on hdc1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Extracting root image.../linuxrc: /linuxrc: 1070: Syntax error: ()/512
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
after 8 hours i am completly stranded. i hope some wizzard can help out here.
I am an expericened computer guy - able to do every task assigned (i can raw write on Compact flash with hex editor, i can do all network stuff / TFTP etc / linux mounting what ever needed).
- So maybe somebody can send me an image of his compact flash inside the ReadyNAS ?
- or any help for recovery is appreciated
THANKS IN ADVANCE - desperate me
i am trying for hours to revive my ReadyNAS 1000S System.
What happened:
I was on 4.00c1-p2 and decided to upgrade to 4.1.6 - Everything went smooth. After that i upgraded to 4.1.7 also everything went smooth
After upgrading to 4.1.7 all fine, checking the old settings in the Web Interface and then decided to Factory Reset the box, because i wanted to
have a clean start. Ok i did factory Reset. then the box rebootet. And here the pain started. It seems system on flash is corrupted.
I tried everything:
1) Tried ALL USB Recovery with version 3.01c1-p6.img, 4.1.6.img, 4.1.7.img all end in kernel panic
2) Tried TFTP Recovery - also kernel panic after downloading the final image
3) I read every place on inet about the recovery options - found no better suggestions
4) I opened the ReadyNas and found a COM1 Connector on the mainboard, and attached a serial console to it, now i can see all messages during boot
5) i put the internal 128MB Flashcard into a card reader and looked into the RAW file structure - it looks obvious the data is destroyed on my flash,
because firmware starts not at normal 0x200 offset, but seems to be moved to 0x4200
6) i wrote the 4.1.6 firmware to a new blank 128MB Flash card and added the bood code from USB Recovery image
7) Then i was able to boot the 4.1.6 with the recovery option (Pressing reset 30s) looked quite good, also was showing up in raidar the first time this day. i was able to set the raid-level and it was preparing the drives in the box (i was totally happy) but then after the creation of the file system
i got
EXT3 FS on hdc1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Extracting root image.../linuxrc: /linuxrc: 1070: Syntax error: ()/512
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
after 8 hours i am completly stranded. i hope some wizzard can help out here.
I am an expericened computer guy - able to do every task assigned (i can raw write on Compact flash with hex editor, i can do all network stuff / TFTP etc / linux mounting what ever needed).
- So maybe somebody can send me an image of his compact flash inside the ReadyNAS ?
- or any help for recovery is appreciated
THANKS IN ADVANCE - desperate me
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- I think you need to write the ordinary 4.1.6 image to the flash card not the USB recovery image. The USB Boot Recovery image is only for USB Boot Recovery.
- Spending another night hours i fixed it:
1) use the normal 4.1.7 firmware image (no recovery, USB or anything else) e.g. RAIDiator-4.1.7
2) get up-to-date Rawrite here http://www.netbsd.org/~martin/rawrite32/
3) rewrite the compact-flash with this image
4) press the reset-button for 30s after power on (release after the 2nd blink of all LEDs)
5) have a lot of patience
6) Problem solved
Remark: For impatient people (like me) a serial console attached to the COM1 Port inside the ReadyNAS 1000s helps a lot for knowing whats going on
Thanks to all who helped !
Thank you mdgm - HELP -- have similar problem with NV+. had 4.00 OS and frontview kept saying system is busy and wont let me update or change settings, although it does see the nas and sees the OS, # of drives etc. NEed to update to 4.1.7. tried to do a USB boot recovery and i got a kernel panic error. I'm comfortable enough around this stuff to follow instructions but i'm lost.
- No, you have similar symptoms. The 1000S used an actual Compact Flash drive which was removable to store the flash memory. The NV+ has a flash chip on the motherboard. Although both also use the same edition of Frontview, I believe the way of getting it on there is different if the online upgrade does not work.
- bigmic - your directions saved me (potentially) HOURS of work. Netgear does have this process documented anywhere I can find it on their site. Thanks SO much for listing these steps!
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