How to fix a faulty USB initBoot for your TNAS?(x.86)

[polentino]

Look at the last line above the error. Mentions arm64. I suspect you have the wrong files. This instruction is for intel based platform.

From this page https://www.terra-master.com/uk/product ... nu&mid=774 it says Processor Architecture X.86 64-bit so I thought it was fine.
But now I checked again the original post and saw that my model, F2-422 is not listed among the supported models, while F8-422 is; probably I made a mistake while reading the supported models.

Now my question is: how can I flash my usb stick to get it functioning again?

[polentino]

For anyone struggling into flashing a valid USB drive: the make_install script inside in https://download2.terra-master.com/bzImage.zip contains a bug

Reason: the instructions contained in the zip were very straightforward and easy (kudos to the devs) so I tried to run

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./make_install bzImage

on different machines to see if I could manage to get a valid, bootable USB drive. And then I noticed that the message before the error was slightly different, depending on the machine where I was executing the script, for example:

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Installing for arm64-efi platform.

or

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Installing for x86_64-efi platform.

which meant that the script was trying to install grub using the architecture of the host machine, instead of the target (TNAS) machine.

Solution: replace this line

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grub-install --root-directory=/media/ --force $blk

with this one

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grub-install --target=i386-pc --root-directory=/media/ --force $blk

and then run ./make_install bzImage as usual, and you're good to go

Look at the last line above the error. Mentions arm64. I suspect you have the wrong files. This instruction is for intel based platform.

From this page https://www.terra-master.com/uk/product ... nu&mid=774 it says Processor Architecture X.86 64-bit so I thought it was fine.
But now I checked again the original post and saw that my model, F2-422 is not listed among the supported models, while F8-422 is; probably I made a mistake while reading the supported models.

Now my question is: how can I flash my usb stick to get it functioning again?

[danno10000]

It appears my F4-220 is dead. After an upgrade of the latest OS, it continued to work but the drive lights were off. I ignored that and did some backups and it failed during that process.

Then all four drive lights became red, no LAN light. I can’t see the TNAS on my network. I have taken apart my NAS and removed the USB iniboot stick.

The instructions provided are too complicated as I only have Mac computers and no easy access to a Windows PC.

I noticed that the USB device with TOS 5.1 preloaded is available on Amazon. Would that be the solution and far easier than trying to create a USB stick?

[dougsmith353]

good afternoon

I have a f5 420 and a f5 422, I did the 8g partition upgrade on the 420 and all went well. I moved everything over to it and waited about a week to make sure all was good.
2 nights ago I tried to do the f5 422, I removed the drives and deleted partitions and reinstalled. Then nothing, no boot.
I tried solution #1 and used a drive from the working f5 420 and booted unit and used putty and still nothing. Tried several times and still nothing.
I sent in an email request for help but have not recieved an anaswer.
So this morning I dropped one of the 5 drives from the f5 422 into the f5 420 and started the rebuild.
Now I have the spare hard drive from the f5 420 that has booted up the f5 422.
Is there a way to use the single drive to redo the entire f5 422?
I have tried the bzimage thing many times and nothing so I am hoping using a working drive can be used.

both the working f5 420 and the booted f5 422 are on 5.1.131 if that helps.

[TMzethar]

If your F5-422 won't boot up without a hard drive, it could be USB boot disk corruption.
This may help you:
viewtopic.php?t=1455

[Gremlin]

If your F5-422 won't boot up without a hard drive, it could be USB boot disk corruption.
This may help you:
viewtopic.php?t=1455

I think you just referenced the thread you are posting in. There are 11 pages of people looking for help on this subject.