Firmware update, stuck at "Booting... Update FW"

I can´t get into the admin page at the moment... can´t change anything.

My RN104 did not get the update, only the RN214.

/ Michael Swärdh

Sweden - ReadyNAS 214- 4 X 4 TB WD Red

I think i have the same services on the RN214 as on the RN104:

SMB

AFP

ReadyDLNA

UPnP

HTTP

HTTPS

Antivirus

I´m absolutely NOT an expert, so if i don´t need any of them just tell me, but as i said, hard du access the admin page atm.

Congrats... I still have the same problem, have tried to restart, power down wait for 10 min then restart but stops att Booting... Updating FW everytime :(

I can´t power down with the powerbutton, nothing happens when i press it once, twice or a 100 times, so i need to pull the powercord to shutdown the NAS. 

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Jambutty wrote:
Sounds like maybe the file is corrupt - it might be worth downloading fresh to a USB stick and booting the NAS off that - not sure exactly how but you should be able to find the instructions somewhere on this site...

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I think the confusion is that people think the USB Boot Recovery is the same as booting a PC from an Ubuntu live stick. It really isn't.

USB Boot Recovery is to overwrite the content of the Flash card in the NAS.

When performing a Factory Default, a ReadyNAS extract the content of the Flash on the disks.

When booting, a ReadyNAS access the system and the settings that are stored on the disks.

So if your ReadyNAS is stuck in Booting, the issue is on the system stored on the drives, not the content of the Flash...

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Jambutty wrote:
And the solution...?

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We need to know more about what the problem is.

Several of people here can have seemingly the same issue that can be caused by different things.

What does RAIDar say? https://kb.netgear.com/20684/ReadyNAS-Downloads#raidar

Can you ping the NAS?

Is SSH enabled? Can you SSH to the NAS? (I doubt it but worth a try.)

All of your disks have ATA errors:

Device Model:     WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0
Serial Number:    
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   064   064   000    Old_age   Always       -       26668
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
ATA Error Count: 259 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
Device Model:     WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0
Serial Number:    
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   064   064   000    Old_age   Always       -       26664
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
ATA Error Count: 76 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
Device Model:     WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0
Serial Number:    
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   094   094   000    Old_age   Always       -       4706
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
ATA Error Count: 158 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
Device Model:     WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0
Serial Number:    
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   064   064   000    Old_age   Always       -       26281
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
ATA Error Count: 149 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)

Though these counts last increased in February.