F4-220 not booting after New TOS install after blackout.
Posted: 08 Oct 2021, 15:20
After a blackout, on a previously running system (sorry, no UPS then) TOS is now not recognised with 4 drives.
These are the steps I took:
1. Removed all drives, turned on the device.
2. Opened TNAS PC software, found device and opened it via the web browser. The TNAS web interface gave an error: "No drives installed."
3. With the device on, inserted all four drives.
4. The web interface asked to install TNAS software or use existing. I chose to install new. Note: This showed a message stating that all drive data will be erased, but it will not so I ignored it
5. Allowed the software to auto-download and install.
6. The reboot notification was given after downloading and installing TOS
7. The system hung as soon as it notified a reboot was under way. -network connection was lost.
Now unable to reboot with all red leds showing for the drives and no network connection.
This scenario just cycles.
BTW these drives are NOT Raid , but single BTFS drives with no protection as I have remote backups of the data.
I am happy to format the system drive (I can't figure out how) in case there is corruption somewhere but I don't really want to lose the data on the other BTFS drives if I can help it.
But.... if I only insert one system drive, without any more drives, everything goes well all the way to the desktop until I insert another drive then when I attempt to create a Volume or Pool it wants me to confirm I will lose all data on that drive. -these drives were working as a single disk BTFS drives before the blackout.
Is this expected behavior that you cannot add previous working drives into a new TOS?
What can I do to retain the data on the other drives? Am I doing in the wrong order? What am i doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
These are the steps I took:
1. Removed all drives, turned on the device.
2. Opened TNAS PC software, found device and opened it via the web browser. The TNAS web interface gave an error: "No drives installed."
3. With the device on, inserted all four drives.
4. The web interface asked to install TNAS software or use existing. I chose to install new. Note: This showed a message stating that all drive data will be erased, but it will not so I ignored it
5. Allowed the software to auto-download and install.
6. The reboot notification was given after downloading and installing TOS
7. The system hung as soon as it notified a reboot was under way. -network connection was lost.
Now unable to reboot with all red leds showing for the drives and no network connection.
This scenario just cycles.
BTW these drives are NOT Raid , but single BTFS drives with no protection as I have remote backups of the data.
I am happy to format the system drive (I can't figure out how) in case there is corruption somewhere but I don't really want to lose the data on the other BTFS drives if I can help it.
But.... if I only insert one system drive, without any more drives, everything goes well all the way to the desktop until I insert another drive then when I attempt to create a Volume or Pool it wants me to confirm I will lose all data on that drive. -these drives were working as a single disk BTFS drives before the blackout.
Is this expected behavior that you cannot add previous working drives into a new TOS?
What can I do to retain the data on the other drives? Am I doing in the wrong order? What am i doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.