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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 ...
Bent82 wrote:
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I had to try 5 different USB flash drives until I got one to work, and it was an extremely old Kingston 128MB drive, it still had room even though the directions said 256MB was the minimum.
I've tried several USBs, all newish, without success. I'll try and hunt down something old. Maybe that's the silver bullet.
Some have had greater success using a 3rd party tool such as Rufus to setup the USB Boot Recovery key.
Although I would agree, my 10 year old Imation 4GB USB key was the one that worked in this case.
the only other sub 16GB keys I had were a 4 year old Kingston Data Traveller and 2 year old 4GB genieric event givaway key - neither of which would work
All my "new" USB keys are 32 and 64GB ones and I tend to find these don't make good boot drives (as per experiences with other devices).
Well. Nothing seems to gto work. Tried a rufus made key and no joy.
You may not be pressing the backup button for long enough.
The process to boot a RN312 off a connected USB Boot Recovery key is simple:
- Press and hold backup button
- Briefly press power button to turn NAS on
- Continue holding the backup button until it boots off USB
What do you see on a HDMI display when attempting to boot off USB vs booting normally?
Also we do have an experimental update to USB Boot Recovery which should work in more situations: https://www.readynas.com/contributed/mdgm/usbbootrecovery/usbrecovery.v2.0.R15-T3.zip
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