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GDM52
Apr 11, 2017Aspirant
ReadyNas RN104 hangs 99% booting
Hi All, Have readynas RN104 running 6.6.0 which stops booting at 99% - appears to be at "dovecot.service" As far as I know, I'm not running dovecot.. Root fileystem can be accessed via SSH, but...
- Apr 18, 2017
Absolutely fine!!! Thanks for all your assistance!!!
mdgm-ntgr
Apr 11, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Perhaps try stopping and disabling that service?
Probably something like
# systemctl stop dovecot # systemctl disable dovecot
- GDM52Apr 18, 2017Aspirant
Hi there,
Tried deleteing the service, but now hanging on fvbackup-q.service. My suspicion is that there's something more fundamentally wrong.
I've another NAS that I'm using to back up fresh data, but would really like to acess my multimedia, which took weeks to digitise.
Tbh, if I could get rsyncd and my encrypted primary raid1 disks mounted, I could rsync the data accross and do a factory reset, but am unsure about the process for that.
Cheers
- mdgm-ntgrApr 18, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Perhaps boot to volume read-only then try updating to 6.7.1 Beta
- GDM52Apr 18, 2017Aspirant
Hi, Problem is can't complete boot process using any of boot menu options (haven't tried factory reset (yet!)) so unable to get frontview access to try any sort of upgrade - considering it was attempt to upgrade to 6.6.1 that got me into this mess, just want to salvage what I can.
Ideally a factory reset which allows access to rsync and encrypted raid1 disks would be enough, as I can rsync data to my other NAS, but my understanding is that factory reset is data destructive. I do ave 1 unencrypted spare disk in NAS, could this be utilised to help boot in some way?
- mdgm-ntgrApr 18, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
I've sent you a PM.
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