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Aspirant

Jul 14, 2022

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Readynas 31400 Booting Issue

I have one Readynas 31400 running with 4 Seagate HDDs (2Tb each). All HDDs are of model ST2000VX008-2E3164. Every time I boot it, booting process is being stuck on Booting.... (4 Dots). After Hard...

StephenB
Jul 15, 2022
kalpsr wrote:

Also, have you tried just waiting (perhaps overnight) and see if the system eventually completes the boot?

-> I kept it ON yesterday night, but it did not boot.

I suspect the best plan is to offload the data, do a factory default, rebuild the NAS, and then restore the data from backup.

StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Jul 14, 2022

kalpsr wrote:

I have one Readynas 31400 running with 4 Seagate HDDs (2Tb each).

All HDDs are of model ST2000VX008-2E3164.

Every time I boot it, booting process is being stuck on Booting.... (4 Dots).

After Hard Reboot it boots again successfully.

How are you shutting it down?

kalpsr
Aspirant
Jul 14, 2022
By pressing power switch only.
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Jul 14, 2022
  kalpsr wrote:
  
  By pressing power switch only.
  
  forced shutdown or preferred? See 72-73 here: https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/ReadyNAS_%20OS6_Desktop_HM_EN.pdf
  
  Also, do you see the same behavior if you shut down from the web ui?
  - kalpsr
    Aspirant
    Jul 14, 2022
    Yes. I am doing the preferred shutdown only. But first time when it is being stuck, I am doing Force Shutdown because at that time network service is also not started. Also the problem occurs if I am doing shutdown through Web UI. Attached image for your reference.