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jokeruk
Feb 28, 2022Aspirant
ReadyNas Ultra 6 continuous reboot
I have a pair of these 6 bay devices and as a rule they have both wored really well. They are running firmware 6.10.67 One of them though has a problem at startup - which seems to have started si...
jokeruk
Mar 01, 2022Aspirant
Thanks Marc thanks for the suggestion and sorry for the slow response.,
As I'd changed the psu last year I had assumed that was not the problem - however I will not rule it out.
I can access the device, as I'f I access the boot menu and select os reinstall it will happily start -until the next time.
Iwill log in when I'm home later and see what logs I can provide
Sandshark
Mar 01, 2022Sensei
If /etc/.flash_update is not removed by the update process, the unit will want to update on every re-boot, including (I believe) the re-boot it does after the re-install. But I don't see why actually selecting a reboot from the power-on menu would cause it to act any differently. I don't know precisely what might ne wrong with the flash to cause this issue, but have you tried a USB recovery?
Note that to do a USB recovery to OS6 on a legacy NAS, you need to create an OS4.2.x style USB but with a renamed OS6 image. I don't believe you need to have a modified image like for the original conversion. That's to fool the normal update process into recognizing it as an update, but USB recovery allows for a downgrade, too.
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