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ReadyNAS NV+ v1 Hangs on Boot
I have a ReadyNAS NV+ v1 that will not boot. After power-up, it goes into checking quotas, then it displays 'Booting...' and never completes. After that, it will not respond to the power button. I be...
Rebooting. Looks like huge backup log files prevented the logs from being downloaded.
I've copied the huge backup job logs to the hidden .logs folder on the C volume and emptied the original on the 2GB root volume.
The system should boot up fine now.I checked the disk health and all look to be healthy.
Assuming it comes up fine now you may wish to backup your data.
It sounds like a full OS partition. The system ZIPs the logs to download together in that partition. If the zipping process filled the partition, that would be the result. Did you have SSH enabled? If so, can you SSH in and see if you have something really big in the OS partition? If SSH is not enabled, you may be able to do the same via FTP into the unit when it is in support mode, but I'm unsure of the details on how to do that on an old NV+.
It's a bit odd, though, that you would have a simlar problem with just a new drive installed. Nothing should have been too big when you zipped the logs.
Thanks for your reply. That makes sense. I don't know whether SSH is enabled, but I will try it. I don't know how to enter support mode; I've seen it mentioned here on the forum, and have been leery of trying it, but it sounds like I may be at the point where I should.
The scratch drive I installed that allowed successful boot wasn't new, but had previously been in the NAS (a couple years ago) as part of a 4x1TB volume, but I would have thought it would have been seen as having free space (?). Maybe it would need to have been formatted though. The display showed 0/0MB free.
Matt
I had no luck trying to SSH to the IP address, neither during the quota check nor once it got to the 'Booting...' state. I am now reading up on how to boot into Tech Support mode to see if I can evaluate whether it's got a full OS partition.
-Matt
Did you try the boot menu option to skip the volume check?
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