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Star

Jun 07, 2022

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ReadyNAS Ultra 6 - stuck at "ReadyNAS" boot

Hi all ... I recently upgraded my ReadyNAS Ultra 6 from OS4 to OS6. Everything went well, until I set the automatic shutdown option to close down my NAS Coming up, it is stuck on the "READYNAS"...

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ReadyNAS OS 6 on Legacy models

Marc_V
Jun 14, 2022
tschutte

Please provide thru Private Message the photos of the labels of the NAS and also set the two NAS on SDM and provide me the port codes as well.

Sandshark

Sensei

Jun 23, 2022

tschutte had a corrupted VPD file, which is an encrypted file in the boot flash that contains information on the model and serial number and only Netgear can create. It's used to prevent folks from creating a "do it yourself" ReadyNAS from generic hardware and running unlicensed ReadyNAS software on it.

There are many things that can result in the unit not getting past the "ReadyNAS" display. AFAIK, a bad VPD won't prevent you from using the boot menu or doing another USB recovery, so you may have a completely different cause, or at least something additional. Other corruptions of the data in the boot flash can result in no boot menu and no normal boot, but you should still be able to do another USB recovery and fix that if there's not an underlying hardware issue. But you do have to use a 4.2.x style USB recovery with an OS6 image, not OS6 style USB recovery. The one you used to convert the unit (which isn't the way conversion should be done) should work if that's not a part of the problem.

tschutte

Star

Jun 24, 2022

I had a very clear and specific and reproducible use case that resulted in a corrupt VPD (and it is probably a bug of OS 6 running on old HW). I set the power timer to shut down my 2 devices and then start them up at a certain time. It went down but never came up again.

Thanks to the help of the gentlemen contributing here, I managed to recover both

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jun 24, 2022
tschutte wrote:

I had a very clear and specific and reproducible use case that resulted in a corrupt VPD (and it is probably a bug of OS 6 running on old HW). I set the power timer to shut down my 2 devices and then start them up at a certain time. It went down but never came up again.

Thanks to the help of the gentlemen contributing here, I managed to recover both

I'm glad you were able to recover.

FWIW, this is not a problem I have with my Pro-6. It is running 6.10.7, and is on a power schedule.