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ReadyNAS Pro 6 Upgrade from 4.2.28 to OS6 fails repeatedly
This is confusing. I converted my other Pro 6 from 4.2.26 to OS6 back in the winter without too much grief. Now following AMRivlin's instructions OS6-now-works-on-x86-Legacy results in the machine coming up in RAIDiator 4.2.28 after the Factory reset. I've done this five or six times and the result is a failure every time.
I notice that after installing R4toR6_Prep_Addon.bin that it does not appear as an installed add-on.
In any case, RAIDiator claims installing R4toR6_Prep_Addon.bin is successful, and that then installing the firmware update is successful. I've rebooted both by restarting and shutting down, and either way after I do the factory default, it comes back up in RAIDiator 4.2.28.
Ideas?
- Answering my own question here. The instructions in the forums are subtly wrong or misleading depending upon how you look at it. The relatively precise instructions here http://netgear.nas-central.org/wiki/OS6_on_Legacy_x86 Are the correct ones. The key ambiguities the wiki instructions resolve are BOTH binaries should be uploaded via the firmware update mechanism The factory reset will occur automatically (do not hold the reset pin to get to the Boot Menu manually)
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- Answering my own question here. The instructions in the forums are subtly wrong or misleading depending upon how you look at it. The relatively precise instructions here http://netgear.nas-central.org/wiki/OS6_on_Legacy_x86 Are the correct ones. The key ambiguities the wiki instructions resolve are BOTH binaries should be uploaded via the firmware update mechanism The factory reset will occur automatically (do not hold the reset pin to get to the Boot Menu manually)
ephemeris wrote:
Answering my own question here. The instructions in the forums are subtly wrong or misleading depending upon how you look at it. The relatively precise instructions here http://netgear.nas-central.org/wiki/OS6_on_Legacy_x86 Are the correct ones. The key ambiguities the wiki instructions resolve are BOTH binaries should be uploaded via the firmware update mechanism The factory reset will occur automatically (do not hold the reset pin to get to the Boot Menu manually)I don't believe you need the PREP4TOR6 image anymore; hopefully mdgm-ntgr will chimei in.
Perhaps so. In any case, the instructions, which are in what three places?, should be identical, correct, and unambiguous.
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