Does anyone have any answer to this? My NAS won't boot at all after it
BROKE ITSELF DURING A FIRMWARE UPDATE!!!
I have tried:
1. Removing drives 1 by 1 and booting - This causes constant blue flashing light but nothing happens (failure to load firmware)
2. Removing all data from only the boot partitions and booting - Causes boot looping
3. Putting boot partition data back and removing all data from only the linux partitions and booting - Same effect as 1
4. Removing all data from both partitions and booting - Same effect as 1
5. Booting into EM mode - Holding the function button either before or after booting does nothing. I've held it for 5/10/15 seconds both before and during boot, and also tried both before AND after, but nothing happens. It just continues trying to boot and then flashes blue constantly.
6. TFTP booting to push the firmware to the NAS (not possible with LS-QVL from what I can see) - I downloaded the latest firmware from the Buffalo website, and used the TFTP boot software for LS-QTL (TFTP Boot Recovery LS-QTL 1.04.exe) from
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_oFnRRMAwk0SkYtdGpSdTNKTk0, where someone on the post
http://forums.buffalotech.com/index.php?topic=10185.0 had luck with on the same model as me (LS-QVL). This didn't work. I tried linking my laptop directly to the NAS (using straight/patch cable, not crossover)
I am tearing my hair out here. I know my data is fine but the goddamn machine broke itself and then stopped working. How can there not be a failsafe in place for this?!?!