Re: SS4000E - partitions restoration [was: Re: SS4000E install problem]

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 <jfstraeten@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,

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JFS.