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RN516 stuck in "Booting" with 33%
Hi! I hope someone can help. I am running an RN51600 with 6 3TB harddisks in RAID 10. Since I bought the device in Feb 2016 in replacement for an NV+ everything was running fine. The devi...
Thank you for the suggestion.
I tried booting in Read-Only. Did not work. For this mode, booting got stuck at 15%.
Finally, I decided to select the rewrite of the firmware from flash memory via the boot menu.
Actually, this solved the problem. NAS started again without problems. Just to be on the safe side, I downloaded the same and latest OS version 6.6 manually from Netgear homepage and reinstalled it via the manual firmware update function, just in case something went wrong when I installed OS 6.6.
NAS now seems to run smooth.
Bad feeling stays: the log files in the GUI do not show anything. Last thing they showed was the automated shutdown. First thing the showed again was the reinstall of the OS from the flash memory today.
I downloaded more log files. I will check whether there is something in those logs that gives and indication on what lead to this situation.
Try booting the NAS "read-only" Instructions are on page 90 of the hardware manual here: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/ReadyNAS_%20OS6_Desktop_HM_EN.pdf
Thank you for the suggestion.
I tried booting in Read-Only. Did not work. For this mode, booting got stuck at 15%.
Finally, I decided to select the rewrite of the firmware from flash memory via the boot menu.
Actually, this solved the problem. NAS started again without problems. Just to be on the safe side, I downloaded the same and latest OS version 6.6 manually from Netgear homepage and reinstalled it via the manual firmware update function, just in case something went wrong when I installed OS 6.6.
NAS now seems to run smooth.
Bad feeling stays: the log files in the GUI do not show anything. Last thing they showed was the automated shutdown. First thing the showed again was the reinstall of the OS from the flash memory today.
I downloaded more log files. I will check whether there is something in those logs that gives and indication on what lead to this situation.
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