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blobby25
Aspirant
Dec 25, 2014

ReadyNas RNDP6350 won't boot

Hi all, new here and already with a big problem. Have a Readynas RNDP6350 which is not booting anymore, No OS, No Recovery, No anything! Seems the internal USB disk was wiped :? Hope ppl here have a solution, been reading a lot but nothing so far seems to work, even the USB recovery stick (or am I doing something wrong?)

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  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Did you follow the link Nhellie gave to a page on home.bott.ca ?

    If the EEPROM was corrupted USB Boot Recovery should have completed but on boot you wouldn't see the model name in the relevant column in RAIDar when you try to boot the NAS normally but the NAS would still show up in RAIDar.

    For x86 there isn't an image you can simply dd to a USB key. Did you try more than one USB key?
  • Yes i did, USB boots and on the monitor i can see:

    SYSLINUX 3.73 2009 .....
    Loading Kernel...............
    Loading initrd.gz..................ready.

    But after that nothing happens? Maybe settings in the BIOS?
  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    So it doesn't auto power off?

    Have you tried powering it off then powering it on normally?
  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Is your memory properly seated?

    Does the internal USB flash show up in the BIOS?
  • Again busy for a few hours to get USB recovery working, small progress with the latest SYSLINUX.EXE. Says booting kernel now but that's it. When I look to see what's on the internal flash drive I can only see LDLINUX.SYS and that's it. Anybody know what else should be on there?
  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    The internal flash should have much more than that. Note we use a customised syslinux boot loader for the NAS itself so the boot menu etc. will work.

    There should be an initrd.gz, kernel, syslinux.cfg, root.tlz, memtest, supplmnt.tlz and version.txt on the internal flash

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