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Mushy
May 17, 2017Aspirant
ReadyNAS boot difficulties "Retry Startup"
Please help. My ReadyNAS will not boot it starts to boot (booting.....) then message appears "Retry Startup"
I do not know where to start
If you have updated to 6.7.3 and ran into this issue please try USB Boot Recovery with ReadyNAS OS 6.7.4 which is now available!
If you have not yet upgraded please upgrade to 6.7.4 rather than 6.7.3. If your system has already been fixed I would still suggest updating to 6.7.4 the normal way using the web admin GUI.
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- mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee Retired
Which firmware are you running?
Can you download the logs using RAIDar?- forseyrAspirant
1. Upgrading to Firmware 6.7.3
2. Front panel display shows "Retry startup 96%" forever.
3. NETGEAR RAIDer display: shows
Download Logs process failed.
4. Restart
Restart shows
Booting...
Update FW
and gets eventually gets back to
Retry startup
96%
- mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee Retired
If you have updated to 6.7.3 and ran into this issue please try USB Boot Recovery with ReadyNAS OS 6.7.4 which is now available!
If you have not yet upgraded please upgrade to 6.7.4 rather than 6.7.3. If your system has already been fixed I would still suggest updating to 6.7.4 the normal way using the web admin GUI.
- MushyAspirantWill the firmware upgrade compromise my data?
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