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Tutor

Mar 17, 2022

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VPD lost or corrupt

The Unit Boots BUT SHOWS THE MODEL AS S1a REPEATING. THE UNIT WOULD NOT BOOT PAST READYNAS LOG SO DID A USB RESET BUT THAT LOOKS LIKE IT CORRUPTED THE VPD ADMIN PAGE OPENS BUT IS BLANK LCD JUST...

Marc_V
Apr 05, 2022
Witdom113

Please check your NAS, let me know if all is well? 🙂

Shadow767

Aspirant

Jan 22, 2024

Hi!

I have exactly the same problem with my ReadyNAS DUOv2.
I cannot restore the system using recovery (usbrecovery.v1.0.T1) and RAIDiator-arm-5.3.13.

I get a message about VPD missing.
I have access via ttl and the upgrade stops with the message:

"Searching for external boot flash device...sda
cp: can't stat '/boot_flash/vpd': No such file or directory"

writing NAND and:
Writing data to block 33 at offset 0x420000
ls: /sysroot/vpd*: No such file or directory

Then i run Bootmenu : FACTORY_DEFAULT

Starting the boot process...

systype=12
Loading kernel modules...armvpd: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
ReadyNAS Pro VPD device driver init...
Tuxera NTFS driver 3011.10.19 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
eth0: started
done
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

I have access to the Marvell Launch Console, but I don't know what to do to fix it.
Please help!
🙂

Witdom113

Tutor

Jan 22, 2024

Hi,

It was a while back.I contacted a guy called Mark_V who is an ex employee. He had remote access and fixed it twice as it broke again after the first fix. It died a third time and I gave up. You might try contacting Mark via this system?

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 23, 2024
Witdom113 wrote:

It was a while back.I contacted a guy called Mark_V who is an ex employee. He had remote access and fixed it twice as it broke again after the first fix. It died a third time and I gave up. You might try contacting Mark via this system?

The person fixing it needs to use Netgear tools because the VPD is digitally signed. Marc_V and the other mods who used to apply this fix as a courtesy no longer work for Netgear, and don't have access to those tools. Paid support is no longer available for any ReadyNAS.

AnishaA might possibly be able to assist (or loop in someone who can). But there simply might not be any Netgear ReadyNAS folks left who can help you.