Hello everybody,
I'm new to Debian, but not new to computers. I'm also to some extent familiar with Linux and I'm familiar with the command line / shell.
I have an old Qnap NAS "TS-259 pro+" which is out of support now nice several years. Therefore I decided to give it a try and install Debian on it. The NAS is still x32-bit, so I installed the 32-bit edition of Debian.
I took the DVD image from here https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/cu ... 6/iso-dvd/ and copied it with Rufus to an USB stick. Installation went fine. No obvious problems.
As boot device I use an USB stick with 8GB, because I want to be able to revert to the original firmware, in case things do not work out as expected. (stick is USB 3, while USB port of NAS is USB 2 - just in case this does matter).
The Debian installation on my NAS basically works fine and is working as expected.
BUT every now and then (about 4-6 times out of 10) I have problems booting the NAS. It either boots fine or it hangs after "initial ramdisk ...".
After loading the ramdisk the screen goes black with just a blinking cursor in the upper left corner.
I know that this is expected behavior (for several seconds) - but it's also expected to show the login screen after maybe half a minute.
And here the NAS get's stuck.
I tried removing the "quiet" parameter from GRUB, but that didn't help.
When it boots, I get all the expected messages. If it doesn't boot, I don't get any of those messages. Not a single line...
I changed the kernel params in Grub to look like this:hoping to get more information.
This has not led to any significant change.
I get no log output when the boot process hangs.
(Of corse I get plenty of output when the boot process is successful)
So no additional information where it might get stuck.
Oh and just to anticipate some obvious questions:
I have checked the HW of the USB stick (at least 2x). It is fine.
I used a different stick (just in case) --> same behavior.
I tried different USB ports of the NAS --> same behavior.
Some more information, that I thought might help you:
> uname -a
Linux debian-nas 6.1.0-18-686-pae #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.76-1 (2024-02-01) i686 GNU/Linux
Any ideas?
Many thanks, quack
I'm new to Debian, but not new to computers. I'm also to some extent familiar with Linux and I'm familiar with the command line / shell.
I have an old Qnap NAS "TS-259 pro+" which is out of support now nice several years. Therefore I decided to give it a try and install Debian on it. The NAS is still x32-bit, so I installed the 32-bit edition of Debian.
I took the DVD image from here https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/cu ... 6/iso-dvd/ and copied it with Rufus to an USB stick. Installation went fine. No obvious problems.
As boot device I use an USB stick with 8GB, because I want to be able to revert to the original firmware, in case things do not work out as expected. (stick is USB 3, while USB port of NAS is USB 2 - just in case this does matter).
The Debian installation on my NAS basically works fine and is working as expected.
BUT every now and then (about 4-6 times out of 10) I have problems booting the NAS. It either boots fine or it hangs after "initial ramdisk ...".
After loading the ramdisk the screen goes black with just a blinking cursor in the upper left corner.
I know that this is expected behavior (for several seconds) - but it's also expected to show the login screen after maybe half a minute.
And here the NAS get's stuck.
I tried removing the "quiet" parameter from GRUB, but that didn't help.
When it boots, I get all the expected messages. If it doesn't boot, I don't get any of those messages. Not a single line...
I changed the kernel params in Grub to look like this:
Code:
"debug earlycon ignore-loglevel keep-bootcon"This has not led to any significant change.
I get no log output when the boot process hangs.
(Of corse I get plenty of output when the boot process is successful)
So no additional information where it might get stuck.
Oh and just to anticipate some obvious questions:
I have checked the HW of the USB stick (at least 2x). It is fine.
I used a different stick (just in case) --> same behavior.
I tried different USB ports of the NAS --> same behavior.
Some more information, that I thought might help you:
> uname -a
Linux debian-nas 6.1.0-18-686-pae #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.76-1 (2024-02-01) i686 GNU/Linux
Any ideas?
Many thanks, quack
Statistics: Posted by quack — 2024-03-28 18:23 — Replies 0 — Views 21