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I just want to say: THANK YOU! Just did my first installation with ARPL and it was soooo great and worked on my first try! (DSM 7.1.1-42962 Update 1, DS3622xs+, VMWare Player 16) The config menu and the web interface for it including booting DSM is impressive!

modify vmx to e1000e or vmxnet 3 and start from scratch. if 6.2.4 add two serial ports

How did you use or convert the VMDK? I had the same when using vmkfstools to convert, it did only boot to shell and no files in Home. I used to convert a VMware Workstation VM with DSM v7 bromolow with OVFtool and imported that (build on esxi always corrupted grub, too), see here: If you find out how to build on ESXi-VM let me know. Currently I try to install a 6.2.4 VM, but I am stuck in a Setup loop ... UPDATE: I don't now if that fixed the boot loop, but after I added 2 Serial Ports (output to file) to my VMware Workstation 16 VM or because I booted from an ISO and then bootet local (it seems to be the 2 Serial Ports, I imported the VM in ESXi 6.7 and it booted to Setup again without Serial Ports, added them and then all worked OK), it started to boot into the DSM User Setup and then successfully into DSM 6.2.4 (with VMXNET3 10GBit and custom MAC) ! UPDATE Gen8: As I couldn't edit my older post, I think I found the correct module for the OnbOard NIC (BCM5720, ntg3, Tigon 3) for the Gen8 ... don't know why it wasn't automatically picked up when I tried last time as it is already there: https://github.com/pocopico/rp-ext/tree/main/tg3 Will have to check at a later time again.

I now succeded with three things: got a running DSM 7 VM in VMware Player 16 (Intel e1000e and disks as SATA, tc-boot-vmdk and additional 16GB Disk) exported it and imported this one on ESXi 6.7 U3 on HP Gen 8 Micro, works (with steps below) Boot Tiny Core 4.4 bare metal on HP Gen8 Micro Export was done with OVF Tool v4.41: "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool\ovftool.exe" --allowExtraConfig --exportFlags=mac,uuid,extraconfig "x:\vms\tc\tc.vmx" "x:\export\tc.ovf" And important add an extra advanced config for the VM because it exports the used MAC as static but uses the reserved range for VMware if used a generated one (should have set a custom one before manually): "ethernet0.CheckMACAddress" = "FALSE" What fails for me up to now: using the given VMDK is not directly possible, becausw wrong format, convertion on ESXi with vmkfstools -i old.vmdk new.vmdk -d thin seems to destroy some stuff => ovftool seems to work better here Build with rploader inside the VM on ESXi 6.7U3 on HP Gen 8 Micro => after reboot Grub is destroyed, error something with arch / magic ELF ... Has anybode been successful with building it in Tiny Core on ESXi 6.7? Any hints? Build with rploader on Bare Metal HP Gen8 Micro => build succeeds, but I think it fails to boot because I read somewhere that newer DSM doesn't work with the old NICs, cannot find it currently ... do I need to specify an extra module manually? 0000:03:00.0 14e4:165f 103c:2133 11/ /0x33 A V ntg3 vmnic0 0000:03:00.1 14e4:165f 103c:2133 7/ /0x34 B V ntg3 vmnic1 Name PCI Device Driver Admin Status Link Status Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description ------ ------------ ------ ------------ ----------- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- ------------------------------------------------------- vmnic0 0000:03:00.0 ntg3 Up Up 1000 Full 1c:98:ec:xx:xx:xx 1500 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet vmnic1 0000:03:00.1 ntg3 Up Up 100 Full 1c:98:ec:xx:xx:xx 1500 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet Build in Virtual Box OK, but not able to find it after reboot

@Aigor: try this (after updating rploader): sudo ./rploader.sh build bromolow-7.0.1-42218

I receive the same error and I manually replace the entries in: redpill-load/bundled-exts.json with: { "unknowno.virtio": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jumkey/redpill-load/develop/redpill-virtio/rpext-index.json", "unknowno.boot-wait": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pocopico/rp-ext/main/redpill-boot-wait/rpext-index.json" } @pocopico: yes the fix works I still have to find out how to configure everything so that it boots in Virtualbox or esxi 6.7 .. I get many problems on my esxi 6.7 on Gen8 Micro ... But I just started to figure out how to configure redpill so I will need time and find good examples ..

I had a problem with the extension urls containing quotes: [#] Downloading remote file "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pocopico/rp-ext/master/e1000e/rpext-index.json" to /home/tc/redpill-load/custom/extensions/_new_ext_index.tmp_json [#] /usr/local/bin/curl --location --fail --progress-bar --retry 5 --output /home/tc/redpill-load/custom/extensions/_new_ext_index.tmp_json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pocopico/rp-ext/master/e1000e/rpext-index.json" curl: (6) Could not resolve host: "https Warning: Transient problem: timeout Will retry in 1 seconds. 5 retries left. and added a trimming in: redpill-load/include/file.sh # Downloads remote file to a specific file path # # Args: $1 URL to download from | $2 destination file | $3 hard fail on error [1 to do so] rpt_download_remote() { pr_info "Downloading remote file %s to %s" "${1}" "${2}" local out; local trimmed="${1%\"}" trimmed="${trimmed#\"}" pr_info "${CURL_PATH} --location --fail --progress-bar --retry 5 --output "${2}" ${trimmed}" out=$("${CURL_PATH}" --location --fail --progress-bar --retry 5 --output "${2}" ${trimmed}) if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then if [[ "${3}" -eq 1 ]]; then pr_crit "Failed to download %s to %s\n\n%s" "${1}" "${2}" "${out}" else return 1 fi fi }

Nice, finally got it working now in portable VirtualBox! 1. Converted the last bootimage with: VBoxManage convertfromraw --format VDI "junuefibios.img" "junuefibios.vdi" 2. Imported the last ovf and modified it like this: Type: Linux Version: Ubuntu (64bit) Mem: 2048 Chipset: PIIX3 IO-APIC activated EFI: activated CPU: 2 PAE/NX: activated Paravirt: legacy VT-x: activated Nested paging: activated GPU mem: 9MB Storage-Controllers IDE --> CD-Drive SATA --> 4 x 8 GB Disks SCSI --> nothing (came with the ovf import I thtink) USB (!) --> mount here the converted boot image: junuefibios.vdi Network Mode: NAT (currently) Adapter type: Intel PRO/1000 MT Server (82545EM) MAC: 0011322CA785 Portforwardings: Host-Port: 5000 --> Guest-Port 5000 Host-Port: 5022 --> Guest-Port 22 Serial Port1: activated Portnumber: COM1 Portmode: File Path: c:\...\serialtext.txt Modify Boot-Image Grub-Config (vid+pid) Important to get the installation working is to edit the grub-config and modify the USB vid + pid to hide it from Synology because it would try to use it and fail with the disk errors. To get and set the right values for vid+pid I simply boot Ubuntu in CD: mount Ubuntu 14.10 ISO in CD-ROM boot and select Ubuntu no install mode (live) start a "terminal" run "lsusb" this will show the vid:pid of the "VirtualBox"-device (80ee:0030). Open the filemanager or use commandline to edit the grub.conf on the bootimage that should be mounted automatically and change vid+pid (vid=0x80ee pid=0x0030). Shutdown Ubuntu and remove the iso from cd drive. Installation Booted now from the modified bootimage, see on the screen "no suitable video mode found, booting in blind mode" Open the textfile that contains the serial output (c:\...\serialtext.txt) and reloadfrom time to time to see the console output. After some time when in textfile is shown "DiskStation login:" (it may still need some time after that to start everything) I used the webbrowser and conected to my forwarded port: http://127.0.0.1:5000 I followed the setup procedure and used the "DSM_DS3615xs_8451.pat" file. After all was installed it took a bit longer than the 10 minutes it waits but it was sucessful. Final Setup Created a RAID6 with the 4 drives and then a BTRFS volume on it and rebooted after that. Then installed Update 1 and some programs.

I can only say that in the past I have seen that message with (virtual) disks that were smaller than 8GB, for 5.2x that was the minimum size. As you are using bare metal with physical disks this should not be the probleme here, but I wanted to add this, if someone is using virtual machines and tries with smaller disks.