[SOLVED] Bricked DNS-320 - Is it possible to force alt-f to load a firmware?

[Giuseppe M.]

Actually, after some troubles:

- bad flash of the RC5 version
- varius trial of load the original kernel.

Now I can boot my DNS 320 and reach the login page of ALT-F, but it show me the "unsupported board" screen.
The fan it's not going.
I have two 2 TB disk installed, no raid configuration. I tryied to swap every disk in various position, nothing to do.


Its' a DNS 320 A1.

Here are the images.
I can't sve a log from nas, I only have the dmesg booting log from putty (I can connect to the board via TTL).

Is there  way to recover my nas?
Thank you.

[João Cardoso]

Are you still waiting?

I need more background (flash/box history) and info, the teraterm log has no info at all, only 53 bytes.

[Giuseppe M.]

Hello. 

I resolved this issue thanks to the user Baltzatu on both the:

D-Link official FORUM -> http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=65405.0

and the DSM-G600 forum -> http://forum.dsmg600.info/viewtopic.php?id=7525

Now I want to upgrade to the RC5, but I'm reasonably scared... I wasn't able to find the fixes for the network data corruption of the RC5, are just in the actual firmware?

P.s. I'm pretty sure that I have downloaded the right firmware image the first time (DNS-320 Rev. A1), but the flash went wrong.

Thank you for the effort in making an average piece of hardware into a great NAS.

[João Cardoso]

On Thursday, 6 October 2016 21:34:31 UTC+1, Giuseppe M. wrote:

Hello. 

I resolved this issue thanks to the user Baltzatu on both the:

D-Link official FORUM -> http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=65405.0

and the DSM-G600 forum -> http://forum.dsmg600.info/viewtopic.php?id=7525

Great.

That info is also in this forum, (search for 'bootm', e.g.) and anybody can add/create new wiki pages, to facilitate life.

 

Now I want to upgrade to the RC5, but I'm reasonably scared...

If you have solved that once, you can do it again :-)

 

I wasn't able to find the fixes for the network data corruption of the RC5, are just in the actual firmware?

*Read* the related top-posted message in this forum, it contains instructions about.

P.s. I'm pretty sure that I have downloaded the right firmware image the first time (DNS-320 Rev. A1), but the flash went wrong.

Yes, it happens sometimes. Even on other NASes and with the vendor firmware upgrade fw. That's the reason why the Alt-F Firmware Upgrade webUI warns about the possibility of bricking the box -- not to be scared, just informed.