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Mac OS X USB recovery drive?
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.
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
Thanks very much! I'm surprised this information isn't already in the knowledgebase.
That's been fixed as well. :)
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