I have a RB2011 at my office that is not working. When I start it, I can see on the little screen that it says “Loading kernel” but nothing else happens. I tried connecting it using the console port and accesing through hyperterminal and this is what i get:
And the screen stays on “Loading Kernel”
Winbox doesn’t detect it, neither does Netinstall.
the kernel is crashing during file system access. This can be because of damaged NAND or just software corruption of vital data or a kernel bug triggered be something unique to your NAND or data. NAND problem is the most probable one.
NetInstall should help in all cases but the situation can repeat earlier or later.
Do not enable heavy write operations tasks like saving graphing and proxy cache on disk, this will certainly ruin your NAND. Do not use FTP NAND partition for anything else then config backups.