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Aspirant

Jan 29, 2016

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Readynas 6.4.1 RN102 boot issue - OS reinstall did not help.

I have powered down my RN102 from the admin page system menu. Upon reboot, it just sits there with the power led flashing. Act, Disk 1 and Disk 2 LEDs are lit as well as a red/amber light at the back...

Booting

piet8stevens
Feb 05, 2016
A big thank you to mdgm. I am very favorably impressed with the quality and speed of the support.

Problem is a change I made using ssh and not a ReadyNas hardware or software problem.

JennC

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jan 30, 2016

Hello piet8stevens,

What was it FW version prior to the update?
Does the RAIDar still detect the NAS? If so, what does it show?
What happens when you try to get to the admin page?
Do you have full backup

Regards,

piet8stevens
Aspirant
Jan 31, 2016
Thank you for your questions.
1. FW prior to the update - not sure, I guess the one released before 6.4.1. In any case, that problem has been solved by doing a factory reset.
2. I cannot ping the NAS with the blinking blue light. RAIDar only reports back 1 NAS (the one that works) and not the one that is blinking.
3. When I try to go to the admin page, Firefox replies it cannot connect to the server.
4. I have 90% backed up. Some stuff I can re-download.

Best regards,

Piet
- piet8stevens
  Aspirant
  Jan 31, 2016
  One more thing: it would still be nice to recover the data on this NAS. I note in the boot menu there is a data recovery option. What does it do and can I use it?
  
  thank you, Piet
  - mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Feb 01, 2016
    The volume read-only option boots the NAS up but mounting the data volume read-only. This is useful in cases where the data volume fails to mount read/write, but can be mounted read-only as you can then copy the data off.
    
    If you can boot into that mode you may wish to send me your logs (see the Sending Logs link in my sig).