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RN516 Stuck Booting...Updating FW (FW 6.6.0)

jah313
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RN516 Stuck Booting...Updating FW (FW 6.6.0)

I have 2 identical NAS516's and upgraded them both yesterday from 6.5.1 to 6.6.0. One of them upgraded with no problem and the other is now stuck (about 18 hours) saying "Booting... Updating FW". I CAN see the device on RAIDAR and it says updating.

 

I have a lot of important data on there which is backed up to Prime, but do NOT want to start from scratch as it will take a long time to recover all the data. 

 

What should I do from here? 

 

Thank you!!!

Model: RN51664E|ReadyNAS 516 6-Bay
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FramerV
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: RN516 Stuck Booting...Updating FW (FW 6.6.0)

Hi jah313,

 

It appears the issue you have described requires assistance from the engineers and/or higher tier who can remote in to the NAS and fix this from the backend. It shows on your records that you still have chat support warranty, I suggest contacting support center and can get one of the engineers take a look at it.

 

Contact NETGEAR Support

 

 

Regards,

 

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: RN516 Stuck Booting...Updating FW (FW 6.6.0)

See what happens if you do a cold boot.

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jah313
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Re: RN516 Stuck Booting...Updating FW (FW 6.6.0)

Do you mean manually power it down and restart it?

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jah313
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Re: RN516 Stuck Booting...Updating FW (FW 6.6.0)

So I rebooted and it is doing the same thing!

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FramerV
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: RN516 Stuck Booting...Updating FW (FW 6.6.0)

Hi jah313,

 

It appears the issue you have described requires assistance from the engineers and/or higher tier who can remote in to the NAS and fix this from the backend. It shows on your records that you still have chat support warranty, I suggest contacting support center and can get one of the engineers take a look at it.

 

Contact NETGEAR Support

 

 

Regards,

 

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jah313
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Re: RN516 Stuck Booting...Updating FW (FW 6.6.0)

Thanks FramerV I will get in contact tomorrow!!!

 

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SuperJT
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Re: RN516 Stuck Booting...Updating FW (FW 6.6.0)

I'm having the exact same problem that @jah313 is having.  Im unable to open a support case currently because chat is down, so if anyone can shoot me the resolution to this I'd really appreciate it.

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: RN516 Stuck Booting...Updating FW (FW 6.6.0)

Did you try rebooting the system?

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SuperJT
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Re: RN516 Stuck Booting...Updating FW (FW 6.6.0)

I was concerned about this because of the "dont interupt firmware install".

I did reboot the system and things came up normally

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: RN516 Stuck Booting...Updating FW (FW 6.6.0)

If a firmware update gets stuck and stays that way for a very long time eventually you'd have no choice but to try a reboot. Glad that resolved it for you.

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