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RN104 USB Reboot Recovery Hung?
Hi, I'm trying to do a USB OS Recovery reboot on my ReadyNAS RN104. The NAS has 6.6.0 firmware on it and this is the version I have put on the recovery USB using the Recovery Tool. I disconn...
You'll have to give more details than "doesn't work". I confirm it's called "OS Reinstall".
When I selected OS Reinstall from the boot menu the LED display went through a few messages (can't remember what they said) then the last message was something like "Missing ..." (the text message appeared to exceed the display width) and then it rebooted automatically. It all happened very fast so I'd have to try it again multiple times to get the full set of messages that came up - if needed.
We probably only need to the last one.
That status though, "Missing", I have never encountered it before.
Did you reach that message after performing a USB Boot Recovery? Or did you already have it before?
Are you doing the OS Reinstall WITH the drives inserted?
I'd tried one or two USB recovery efforts first which gave the DEBUG message in my first post, then I tried the boot menu OS reinstall and it stopped as described (I had tried to do an OS reinstall first, but for some reason I couldn't scroll through the boot menu, it was only after I had tried the USB method when I tried again I managed to select OS reinstall)
- I'm using the files on the NAS at the moment, so I can't do a set of reboots to get the messages for the OS reinstall until tomorrow.
Yes, the drives are inserted, I didn't notice any instructions to take them out, did I miss that somewhere? Should I try either method with them all removed?
smc007i wrote:Yes, the drives are inserted, I didn't notice any instructions to take them out, did I miss that somewhere? Should I try either method with them all removed?
No. I was just checking that the message wasn't "Missing drives" or something like that. If you do remove the drives, then an OS Reinstall would not work.
What an OS Reinstall basically does is extracting some data from the Flash onto the OS volume, the OS volume being on the HDDs.
What a USB Boot Recovery does is rewritting the content of the Flash from what's on the USB stick.
When you boot your ReadyNAS, it boots from the OS Volume that's on the HDDs.
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