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ReadyNAS312 Firmware Upgrade to 6.7.4 - Will Not Boot
I had to download the image, received DNS error when I tried the auto-uodate. So, upgrade completed manually and since I was going to be gone all day I shut down rather than rebooted the NAS. This ...
I also saw RN716 can't boot successfully after update to 6.7.5 T building (this building only fixed RN3138's FAN speed issue), I checked information from console port, it seems system can't find boot partition (Need to check root cause),
then I enter into boot menu and select normal boot, system boot successfully.
so please try to select normal boot in boot menu.
How do I access the boot menu on my ReadyNAS 102, 202, 212 or 312?
https://kb.netgear.com/22892/How-do-I-access-the-boot-menu-on-my-ReadyNAS-102-202-212-or-312
The leds would not illuminate.
mgdm is also helping me out. I finally had time today to use a USB key. I got a few brief flickers on the Act LED, then it went dark. No further led activity.I have the same issue. Upgrade to 6.7.4 was successful and so was the soft reboot. But I had a power outage over the weekend and now the 312 won't boot.
Hooked into a LCD monitor and I get the following after the AMI BIOS
Initramfs unpacking failed: LZMA data is corrupt
gpio_it87: unkown chip found, chip 8721 revision 4
Kernal Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on Unkown Block (2,0)
...... then a bunch of stuff relating to the Kernal Panic
I have a 2 x 4GB RAID 1 setup, I have a backup of the important data, but would prefer not to lose any of it if possible
Oh yeah and same problem, power LED goes off after the Kernal Panic. I also can't even get into the Boot Menu to try a OS reinstall
With the initramfs corrupt the system will fail to boot and the boot menu won't work. You do need to do USB Boot Recovery to fix this: How do I use the USB Recovery Tool on my ReadyNAS OS 6 storage system?
If the tool isn't working for you you could try using Rufus to create the USB key.
The tool does currently expect a USB key with the MBR partitioning scheme with a partition on it containing the boot recovery files.You can try this initrd.gz and kernel instead if you want:
https://www.readynas.com/contributed/mdgm/r6usbboot/latest/initrd.gz
https://www.readynas.com/contributed/mdgm/r6usbboot/latest/kernelUsing these it'll boot to a tech support mode like state. RAIDar should reflect this.
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