Reinstalling Firmware v18.3 without deleting previous backup

[macintosh]

Hello.
I'm having a problem with my 2Big-NAS, which already has Fvdw-sl 18.3 installed, it no longer restarts correctly.

My previous Fvdw-sl 18.3 installation used the automatic procedure with fvdw-sl-console and install fvdw-sl firmware, following it step by step...

Being rather new to this, I'd like to reinstall Fvdw-sl 18.3 but without erasing the partition where my data backups (created with Fvdw-sl 18.3) are already located.

Your help file, install_fvdw_sl_firmware_hlp, doesn't provide instructions on this.

Could you please provide the steps to follow?

Thank you for your help.

[Jocko]

Hi

From firmware update menu, click on the button "Update firmware (latest version)' . You will get a new fresh version 18.3 even if version 18.3 is already installed.

Of course you will need to install again the patch for version 18.3 later

[macintosh]

Hi Jocko
Thank for fast answering.
Yes, I know that.

But I can't even get to the Fvdw-sl 18.3 interface!
The 2Big-NAS doesn't boot completely, the front button just keeps flashing blue, and that's it!
The HDD lights are OK (fix blue)!

Thank

[Jocko]

Hi Macintosh

Ok

Do you sill have a shell access ? From a shell terminal, we can try easily to reuse the former installed version

Otherwise, we can install version 18.3 via fvdw-sl without losing your data but less easily

[macintosh]

Hi Jocko

No shell access available ?

Thank

[Jocko]

Hi

Ok that means the boot script fails to run the php commands...

So we go to use fvdw-sl console to write again the firmware image on the system partition in-use.

Start fvdw-sl console and select as action "Standalone Kernel, load and start". For a 2big2 you have to select as kernel image : UIMAGE-3142-KIRKWOOD-171-standalone

When you get the telnet access, run

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mkdir /sda7
mount /dev/sda7 /sda7
cat /sda7/boot.log

You must read a line like "booting using sda1 file system..." or with sda2

note what partition is used by the boot script

Then run

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umount /sda7
 fvdw-sl-programs

from the new menu, select "write fvdw-sl firmware image to disk"

Answer "yes" for the partition that you noticed at the previous step ( and only for this partition)

Then writing is successful completed reboot the NAS by entering

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reboot -f

If your nas database is not corrupted, nas should restart sucessful