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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.
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?
I haven't tried that. I'm assuming that the check completes successfully, but I don't know for sure. I've seen the % complete climb into the 90s, and by the next time I look, the display no longer says Quota Check, just "Booting...".
Today when I tried booting, it started a Disk 1 sync, which it has not done since this problem began. It's been running about 3 hours so far. I'm going to let that go overnight, and if that doesn't get me to a new state, I'll try booting without a quota check.
Thanks for your message.
Update: I aborted the Disk 1 sync after it ran for about 50 hours. The box wouldn't respond to a press of the power button, though when I held it down for about 10-15 seconds, the fan and all drive and power lights went off, but the LCD display and backlight remained on.
I've now booted by skipping the volume check. The display went through these steps so far:
1: Booting...
2: Resynching volume
3: Booting... Disk 4 sync
This is where it sits right now, with the 4 drive lights on solid, Act light flashing rapidly, and blue power light flashing slowly.
I'm not too optimistic, but I guess I will let this go for 24 hours or so...
Thanks for your advice,
Matt
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