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Understanding the boot process of ReadyNAS
After downloading the logfiles recently in the "bios-ver.log" I noticed the following U-Boot 2011.12-gec25d27-dirty (Oct 26 2015 - 16:56:14) Marvell version: v2011.12 2014_T2.0p1 06/23/2015 Read...
1. Well on ARM it's a U-Boot not a BIOS. The U-Boot environment tells the NAS where to look for the kernel etc. on the flash, then during the boot process it switches to booting off the disks.
2, 3 and 4. You can brick your system messing around with this. You shouldn't need to make any changes to this. You may find sites like natisbad.org provide helpful information for you.
1. Well on ARM it's a U-Boot not a BIOS. The U-Boot environment tells the NAS where to look for the kernel etc. on the flash, then during the boot process it switches to booting off the disks.
2, 3 and 4. You can brick your system messing around with this. You shouldn't need to make any changes to this. You may find sites like natisbad.org provide helpful information for you.
Thanks a lot for quick answer.
I have no intention to mess around with this. Just want to understand what is going on.
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