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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 ...
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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