Hi JF
Thank you for your help so far. I do not have a copy of the original boot cd, never did. I am not sure if it would work because the rammode partition is not there and that is what brings up the network I believe. If someone has the original cd I'd love to give it a try. I cannot perform any commands on this box except the default redboot commands, as the only way to communicate with it is serial comm. I think I could restore the files if I knew the correlation between the block number name and the partition name. Hopefully someone who has been through this and still remembers hoe to restore it sees this. Again I appreciate everything I can get. Craig On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:57 PM, JF Straeten <jfstrae...@scarlet.be> wrote: > > Hi Craig, > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 04:13:22PM -0500, craig guest wrote: > > > Sorry if I'm seen as hijacking this thread but haven't see this much > > activity on an ss4000e in a long time. > > Indeed, but I don't see how this prevent the creation of a new > thread :-) > > > > Mine has been on a shelf for a long time. I performed an fis init -f > > on it and have lost all my partitions except for > > > Redboot > > Redboot config > > fis directory > > cat /proc/mtd under Debian seems to give the partitions list and their > size : > > lothar:~# cat /proc/mtd > dev: size erasesize name > mtd0: 00040000 00020000 "RedBoot" > mtd1: 00020000 00020000 "log" > mtd2: 00040000 00020000 "rammode" > mtd3: 00020000 00020000 "naskey" > mtd4: 00200000 00020000 "zImage" > mtd5: 00400000 00020000 "ramdisk.gz" > mtd6: 01880000 00020000 "vendor" > mtd7: 00080000 00020000 "wmdata" > mtd8: 00001000 00020000 "RedBoot config" > mtd9: 00020000 00020000 "FIS directory" > > But I don't know how to exploit theses figures to write the data in > place... > > > > I have a backup copy of all the partitions but am unsure as to how > > to restore them. They are named block1 block2 .... > > Someone with a SS4000E can also make them available for you, I don't > see that as a problem... > > > > I have been able to load debian to it and perform an install but it > > fails at saving to flash I am assuming this is because the > > partitions are missing to flash to. Can somebody please help me > > either restore the partitions or restore back to factory so I can > > try again. I would really appreciate some help > > Do you (or someone else) still have the CD-Rom which comes with the > SS4000E ? (I'm afraid mine has been thrown away.) > > IIRC, some software on this CD claimed to be able to restore the nas > to factory settings. Could you possibly try it ? > > Hih, > > -- > > JFS. >
