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Mac OS X USB recovery drive?
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So, I proudly announced to my friend how great my RN104 is. Literally as he watched it said "upgrade firmware?". I clicked yes. Foolish. Now it's hung on "booting".
I look for a fix and discover that I can create a USB recovery drive if I can run PC .exe files. I cannot.
How can I unbrick my new RN104 using my mac? I am a geek and understand how to use dd and manipulate filesystems.
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Luckily it's pretty simple on the ARM based systems.
Grab the USB recovery tool from here.
Grab your firmware from here.
Use Disk Utility to format the USB drive.
1 partition, MS-DOS (FAT) format.
Make sure Master Boot Record is selected under Options.
Copy to the USB drive:
- The "initrd-recovery.gz" and "NTGR_USBBOOT_INFO.txt" files from the "Marvell" directory
- The "uImage-recovery" file from the "Marvell/RN104" directory.
- The firmware image.
When you're done the layout should look like so:
siigna@tatooine /Volumes/USBRECOVERY $ ls -al total 134048 drwxrwxrwx@ 1 siigna staff 4096 Nov 2 18:21 . drwxrwxrwt@ 8 root admin 272 Nov 2 18:21 .. -rwxrwxrwx 1 siigna staff 0 May 22 2013 NTGR_USBBOOT_INFO.txt -rwxrwxrwx 1 siigna staff 63391744 Oct 27 11:49 ReadyNASOS-6.4.0-arm.img -rwxrwxrwx 1 siigna staff 2048370 Nov 27 2014 initrd-recovery.gz -rwxrwxrwx 1 siigna staff 3161676 Apr 25 2000 uImage-recovery
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Luckily it's pretty simple on the ARM based systems.
Grab the USB recovery tool from here.
Grab your firmware from here.
Use Disk Utility to format the USB drive.
1 partition, MS-DOS (FAT) format.
Make sure Master Boot Record is selected under Options.
Copy to the USB drive:
- The "initrd-recovery.gz" and "NTGR_USBBOOT_INFO.txt" files from the "Marvell" directory
- The "uImage-recovery" file from the "Marvell/RN104" directory.
- The firmware image.
When you're done the layout should look like so:
siigna@tatooine /Volumes/USBRECOVERY $ ls -al total 134048 drwxrwxrwx@ 1 siigna staff 4096 Nov 2 18:21 . drwxrwxrwt@ 8 root admin 272 Nov 2 18:21 .. -rwxrwxrwx 1 siigna staff 0 May 22 2013 NTGR_USBBOOT_INFO.txt -rwxrwxrwx 1 siigna staff 63391744 Oct 27 11:49 ReadyNASOS-6.4.0-arm.img -rwxrwxrwx 1 siigna staff 2048370 Nov 27 2014 initrd-recovery.gz -rwxrwxrwx 1 siigna staff 3161676 Apr 25 2000 uImage-recovery
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Re: Mac OS X USB recovery drive?
Thanks very much! I'm surprised this information isn't already in the knowledgebase.
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Re: Mac OS X USB recovery drive?
Outstanding! I've employed many software engineers and it's always refreshing to find one with a clue. Nice one.
Addendum: For bonus points you need to integrate this knowledge into your tech support's resources- the response I got from them was "not possible" and "use a Windows machine". 🙂