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elfworks's avatar
Oct 07, 2015
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RN104 - Stuck "Booting..." after automatic 6.4.0 upgrade.

Went to Boot Mode. Tried OS Reinstall. Tried Factory Reset. Pulled out the drives. Always end up stuck on 'Booting..." Please give us instructions on how to do a USB Recovery. Please don'...
  • kohdee's avatar
    Oct 07, 2015

    Hi,

     

    If you've bricked your chassis during upgrade, you can do the USB boot recovery tool from this KB article:

    http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29952

     

    Review our KB for the steps. 

    Put the ReadyNAS 6.4.0 firmware into the marvell folder, insert a USB less than 8 GB and format it fat32, then open the tool and select the drive letter, click format again, then drill down to the RN100 series and execute the tool with 6.4.0 selected.

    Then during boot of your ReadyNAS, hold the backup button for around 10 seconds. Then the unit will blink repeatedly for some time and when it was successful, it will just shut off. Then remove the USB and try to boot normally again.  

    The RN104 will tell you on the LCD that it is in USB recovery mode. 

    I'll update the tool later for the new ReadyNAS units. 

    I just updated the tool to include RN2xx series devices. It might take time to replicate on our CDN though.