My ReadyNAS 600 Rev A is stuck booting, all drives show up as green in RAIDar, no yellow lights in the front. Power light(blue) blinking every 4. I left it on for 14 hours and it got no where. This problem happened after using the FrontView firmware update, no power inturreptions system emailed me telling me to reboot it. I did and it hasn't finished booting since.Thread update: Was requested to do Memory Test, which failed with drive lights 1-2 solid green. Meaning DIMM Fails memory access test, re-seat DIMM or replace DIMM.Thread update(2015-03-23 02:00 PM EST): New memory arrived, running test now will update with results.Thread update(2015-03-23 03:16 PM EST):Lights came back 1 & 3 Green, Meaning Boot loader fails to locate valid RAIDiator image, raw-write CF shall solve the problem, otherwise CF socket and DIMM are in question. I've purchased a new 128 MB CF, when it arrives I will rewrite the image to the new one and install into current device. Going to retry OS re-install in mean time.Thread update(2015-03-23 03:31 PM EST): Did OS re-install, system booted up. RAIDar moved from booting to "4.1.14" to "file system check,100%" to "4.1.14". Everything is accessible FrontView and Network file system.Thank you everyone for your input and help through this problem.Jedi Knight Nhellie2NutzExtra Information: http://www.readynas.com/download/documentation/support/ReadyNAS-LEDA.pdf - ReadyNAS LED Language (Rev A X6/600/1000S)

ReadyNAS 600? Wow this is an old one. I'd still check the disk first with diagnostic tools like Seatools or WD Lifeguard. Are you using a UPS by any chance?What FW version did you install?

I am using a ups. it was upgrading to 4.1.14. ill do the disk check in the mean time.

Have had the same thing happen on more than one occasion. Usually just a matter of pulling the plug and killing all power to the box, count to 100, plug the 120 back in and boot up. They seem to be very tempramental.

2Nutz wrote:Have had the same thing happen on more than one occasion. Usually just a matter of pulling the plug and killing all power to the box, count to 100, plug the 120 back in and boot up. They seem to be very tempramental.Sometimes it does the trick but mostly sutck at booting is mainly caused by multiple HDD failures or OS corruptions.

Unplugged for 10 minutes then restarted left running for 2 hours nothing. Since it was after I did a firmware update I believe it would have something to do with that. Drives were good on the day I did the update no errors. I'd there a way to reflash the firmware to an older version?

ReadyNAS 600 - stuck booting (SOLVED)

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IFoundTheLight
Aspirant
Mar 19, 2015
OS Reinstall mode starts and looks like a normal boot. (at least from where I'm looking no special light pattern or anything)

Shows up in RAIDar like a normal boot and gets stuck.

Blue flashing light every 4 seconds, and booting message in RAIDar.
IFoundTheLight
Aspirant
Mar 19, 2015
As extra Information this seems to be a Rev A Readynas 600

http://www.readynas.com/download/documentation/support/ReadyNAS-LEDA.pdf - Best Light Language I could find

I'm going to disconnect all SATA drives and reconnect using all new SATA cables.

2Nutz

Aspirant

Mar 19, 2015

IFoundTheLight wrote:
As extra Information this seems to be a Rev A Readynas 600

http://www.readynas.com/download/docume ... S-LEDA.pdf - Best Light Language I could find

I'm going to disconnect all SATA drives and reconnect using all new SATA cables.

IFoundTheLight wrote:
As extra Information this seems to be a Rev A Readynas 600 http://www.readynas.com/download/docume ... S-LEDA.pdf - Best Light Language I could find I'm going to disconnect all SATA drives and reconnect using all new SATA cables.

I don't believe the Rev. A units play nice when trying the USB reinstall method. Search throug the forums. The good news is you should have a CF card which is easy to write. It may even be the source of your problem.

If all disks check out good first, then you may want to consider getting a CF card (Its a 64mb originally but use a 128mb for extra blocks if needed). Write the correct image to the card and replace your original. By not writing to your original, you still have that as a back-up if good/needed.

Just a thought.

IFoundTheLight
Aspirant
Mar 23, 2015
Bought a 128mb CF. Will update more when it arrives.
Nhellie
Virtuoso
Mar 25, 2015
Was this solved by using the 128mb CF card?
MrCyberdude
Tutor
Apr 20, 2015
My ReadyNAs X6 seems to be having the similar problems.

EDIT: I got side tracked, was it recovered?

1. Where can I get the file to rawrite to the CF? as the previous link doesn't work.

2. Where is the file link to get the latest USB boot?
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Apr 20, 2015
1. The file to rawrite to a CF card is the standard firmware image. If you unzip the download you should see a file called something like RAIDiator-4.1.14. This is the file you need to use.

2. For USB Boot Recovery only you need to use this. http://www.readynas.com/download/support/ReadyNAS_USB_Flash_Recovery-4.1.14.img
MrCyberdude
Tutor
Apr 20, 2015
Thanks mdgm, I have the following issue possibly.
"Boot loader fails to locate valid RAIDiator image, Raw-write CF shall solve the problem, otherwise, CF socket
and DIMM are in question."
but... its soo hard to tell as I have had one error after the other, also different boots appear to show different issues, so I'll start with the Flash or maybe the usb boot.
I have done the CF rawrite before but havent had to try the usb boot so ill stick with what I know.
MrCyberdude
Tutor
Apr 20, 2015
Still a work in progress, but CF Written.

Used RaWrite32 for x86 from http://www.netbsd.org/~martin/rawrite32/download.html

http://downloadcenter.netgear.com/en/pr ... S%20Duo%20[V1]#searchResults from here http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24874 (How do I access the boot menu on my ReadyNAS Duo / NV / NV+ / X6/600)

RAIDiator-4.1.14 md5 of e918cbfb28d917b86e4e97bf1cd67250

RaWrite success of
MD5 e918cbfb28d917b86e4e97bf1cd67250
SHA1 7301a357c1925af6009fa3226b3313654e2c8c5c
SHA256 e911b5a65d087f284ec4c2c5cb6b25e1af10094893e5ac4282d3dd764a119d88
SHA512 45a98b87b6dbf9e044f161b728a657c37bb61e52cfe134602ac62a083460d668
d071fec62a869b7d6baa02f9c41aad6f9ab34d78092086754408f600287f313b

54.9 MByte successfully written to disk.
MD5 hash of output data: df5164ade87daa095c1c9596aa529929
MrCyberdude
Tutor
Apr 20, 2015
Ok first successful progress in days finally made. I pulled all HDD's out.
I then installed a single 2TB for testing.
First Installed and Second booting.
I'm sure I have an older version on the original 4 HDD's I took out.

From RAIDar I have seen it installing and then creating volume followed by Booting.

And now I wait, as nothing seems to be happening and Booting remains in RAIDar...
And then
It looks like it's finally Booting again.

Some more activity with HDD1 and then 4.1.14 appears in RAIDar but with no HDD showing as present or Volume, but this is probably because the spare I was using was probably an old spare with partitions of Ext2 and Ext3 on it.

But then all of a sudden both the HDD and the Volume appear in RAIDar.

Now after days FrontView is available.
Damn admin.. password.. netgear1 then I'm in but FrontView crashes in Google crime and then reloads.

So moral is wait wait try try.

Now I still have 4 HDD that need to go back in with older firmware.
I have had a lot of grief with the boot and reset pin as it takes the old X6 about 25 seconds for the normal 5 second lights to appear.

What do you suggest to do next?

1. Power off, install all 4 HDD then power up...
Or
2. Install all HDD and then try for an OS update or is that automatic?

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