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well it seems the firmwar of Lacie uses another string for first boot, howevr this is used when it has loaded an initial file system. It set up some thing but also extracts the normal file system, when that is in place it should have the string as i have sent you. The images I have sent you are the final one in place after the the first boot.
But you could give it a try and see what happen

load standalone kernel and give this command in telnet client

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echo "LaCieFirstBootLaCie" | dd  of=/dev/sda

now try again if it boots

hi fvdw thanks for your answers, I'll try and tell you as I was

:hail :applause :applause IT'S ALIVE, thanks so much friend fvdw, congratulations from Mexico newly Thanks

for others this are the files with the original (crap) lacie firmware of the 5big2 including the others mentioned in this post.
Its not the latest version but you can upgrade afterwards

--edit 2-march-2014

the mkfs.xfs binary in above package is not a static compiled version and won't work
attached a zip archive that contains a minimal version of glibc and mks.xfs , unpack you will find a tar archive glibc-mini-mkfs.xfs-25feb14.tar
Upload that to the nas using the standalone kernel and tftp server of the telnet client of fvdw-sl console while running the standalone kernel

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tftp -l glibc-mini-mkfs.xfs-25feb14.tar -r glibc-mini-mkfs.xfs-25feb14.tar -g pc-ip

(replace ip-pc by actual ip addres of your pc running the tftp server of the fvdw-sl console)

unpack the tar archive in the top level directory (/) of the standalone kernel

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tar -xvf glibc-mini-mkfs.xfs-25feb14.tar -C /

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hello
i followed all the steps above, now the device starts to boot
but the dashboard does not load, and i can't login
can someone give me an advice ?

for info: "mkfs.xfs /dev/sda2" didn't work...

i have the file "glibc-mini-mkfs.xfs-25feb14.zip [1.24 MiB]"
but i am not used to linux commands
can you give me the commands to tftp and uncompress it to the right place ?

when you have the telnet client open and connected perform the command as described in the post were you downloaded the file, it specifies the tftp command to use to upload the file, of course first unzip the arvive to get the tar archive...

then in the telnet client again try the command

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mkfs.xfs /dev/sda2

Thank you fvdw!!!
I followed all your instructions and I managed to revive a 5big v2 from the first try.

This is huge for me as the broken unit was already swapped once by Lacie and I wasn't tempted to send it again to them, especially since it's out of warranty now.
I had a lot of grief with the first unit before sending it to Lacie, but this time fixing it (by myself) was a breeze and quite a nice experience. Again thanks for your work.

thank you for your feedback, it is much appreciated.
You see our knowledge seems to exceed that of the lacie engineers ;)

Hello
is there a way to add on other disks to a 5big v2 5Tb unit (not a diskless unit) using the (crap) lacie firmware

I really need the raid so I have followed the instructions ..created 1 drive ..booted it and it works great with the instructions for the lacie firmware.
I then created a second drive following the same instructions (lacie firmware) ..booted it ..and it works great

I then placed 1 drive in position 1 and then the 2nd drive in position 2 (hoping the unit would boot and I would be able to create raid 1)
It fails to boot and the front blue light flashes

its possible that only 1 drive should have "echo "LaCieFirstBootLaCie" | dd of=/dev/sda" ..if that is the case should I retry by recreating 2 drives and 1 drive with echo "LaCieFirstBootLaCie" | dd of=/dev/sda"and the 2nd drive without this string

1 drive works great - however do you have any suggestions to recreate a multiple drives - raid using the (crap) lacie firmware

Could I use Clonezilla to clone 1 drive to the other drives and then remove LaCieFirstBootLaCie from drive 2 onwards?