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ReadyNas Ultra 4 VPD Corrupt
Long story short... I corrupted the VPD.
When I boot into support mode, mount the OS partition, and run:
cat /sysroot/ramfs/.raid_mode_error_boot
I get "can't find xraid mode in vpd".
Can this be fixed without factory defaulting? My data is still intact (I've mounted /dev/md2 and checked.)
My last Crashplan backup of the NAS is 4 months old and I'd rather not factory default, shuffle data around, or try to download everything back from Crashplan's servers. If that's my only option than that's what I'll do, but if anyone knows how I can repair this. Please let me know how.
I've already tried the standard Reinstalling OS from boot menu and USB Boot Flashing.
Replied to your PM.
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USB Boot Recovery only helps if the firmware on the flash is corrupt. This is seen in some rare cases when doing a factory default or if you can't boot the NAS into debug mode even with the disks removed. In all other cases it wouldn't help and if anything add an additional problem such as possibly corrupting the VPD.
Why did you do USB Boot Recovery?
I have sent you a PM.
Here's the long story. Ran into dependency problems with apt-get (my fault). Got to the point where the NAS wouldn't boot into anything but support mode. I couldn't figure out a way around my problem in support mode so I factory defaulted with a single spare drive I had lying around. I tar.gz'd the OS partition on that drive and expanded back over the OS partion of my normal array. Still wouldn't boot. mdgm pointed out that that I merely extracted over the OS and didn't wipe it conpletely which would lose my config. I could deal with losing some of my configs so I deleted everything from the OS partion and expanded the OS I tar'd from the spare drive. System booted up fine with all data still intact. Uploaded the config backup I had from a few days ago through frontview and my users are back. I may have to restore some other stuff manually, I haven't checked yet, but the important part is the NAS is booting up with the same data partition. Exactly what I wanted.
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