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Ultra 2+ Powers On - No ethernet activity - Corrupt Firmware ? - USB Boot Recovery NOT Working
Any help or suggestions appreciated.
Helping a friend recover the use of his older ReadyNAS Ultra-2+ which does not boot into the NAS's system management webserver or even attempt to send ethernet ...
I tried substituting two files provided by Mdgm on the USB stick:
initrd.gz (6.4 MB)
kernel (6.2 MB)
to enable remote diagnostics thru RAIDar (I think) but these would not enable booting either - no ethernet activity or visibility by RAIDar. However, it is likely I did not have the USB stick configured as "bootable" or something similar when I tested this. Will try again.
The USB key needs to be syslinux bootable. usbrecovery.exe can be used to do this or you can use a 3rd party software such as Rufus.
You can use a more recent version of the syslinux bootloader than included with usbrecovery.exe if you want.
However if the network port is broken then booting off USB isn't going to fix that.
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