MarsManden

You may remove the USB-stick, when the server has booted. But it must be reseated if you want to reboot the server. The USB-Stick represents the boot-rom in a Synology. When the server is running, it is not read from or wrote to.

I have no power-off schedule and I'm not using wake on lan as my unit is powered on 24/7.

I have rebooted my N54L several times after installing XPEnology - even had a powerbreak while copying files to it. I have had it shut down complete. Until now I haven't lost the configuration in BIOS. Last night a friend and I installed his N54L with XPEnology. Using TheBay BIOS. The same - rebooted several times, power off/on. No problems with a reset BIOS.

Hi Did you choose to check the disks for errors when creating the RAID as recommended? Has it finished checking the disks? Checking the disks may take 5-6 hours for 2TB disks. I'm able to reach 100MB/s just using the 250GB disk, that came with the server. Have you tried making a volume without RAID on the 250GB disk?

I haven't done anything to prevent it. I didn't know it was a problem.

Just realized that you're using HyperV, which isn't using the USB stick. Sorry. I don't know how to edit the vendor file inside the vdi image file. Is it possible to mount it to another virtual machine and edit it from there? Just a thought.

The file is in the vdi-boot-image. I don't know how to edit a file inside a vdi-image.

Hi MisterG Guide: Edit serial number and MAC address for your XPEnology: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1353

Right. No, you don't HAVE to - I just like the logical mac-address to be the same as the physical. Yes Yes - boot the N54L with the USB-stick in one of the USB-ports on the N54L. When the N54L has booted from the USB-stick, you start Synology Assistant, it finds the N54L. NOW REMOVE THE USB-Stick! Right-click on it in Synology Assistant and choose install. During the install the N54L reboots - when the N54L reboots, reinsert the USB-stick - or the system wont boot! It then finishes the installation. When the system is running, you may remove the USB - BUT if you need to reboot it, you HAVE to reinsert the USB. When you first log into the system from the webbrowser, you will be guided through the initial setup.

Sounds right - Windows is unable to read the stick after transferring the Synology boot-image to it, as it is formatted with ext filsystem (not FAT or NTFS). If you have formatted the stick, then do the transfer again. Now eject and unplug the USB stick from the PC and put it into the N54L - front, back or inside doesn't matter. Power on N54L - if you have a monitor connected to N54L, you should see it boot from the USB stick. After a few minutes you should be able to see it from your PC using Synology Assistant.

I don't know why you are unable to download the file - I can see that 10 others have downloaded the file since I put it up for download. Please try this link - if it is because of the mix of letters: http://hbgpc.dk/xpenology/n54l.zip Yep, I got a converter from 3½" to 5 1/4" so to speak, on which I attach the 3½" harddisk. The BIOS is modified to be able to run the 5th harddrive at full SATA speed. The MAC address - well, I don't like to use the MAC/serial that everyone else uses. And I like the server to use the MAC address, that the NIC is born with.

Well, here you go. How I build my N54L with trantor's DSM 3211++ I have successfully build a NAS using Trantors portal of Synology software. I have read through some of these threads and some threads on other forums. In the end it was a peace of cake to do the install. To show my grattitude to this forum, I desided to share how I did it. Hardware: HP Proliant Microserver N54L 5 x 4TB Western Digital WD Red disks A 256MB USB stick A SATA cable and a Molex to SATA power cable Software: TheBay BIOS mod (http://www.avforums.com/forums/networki ... pport.html) XPEnology DS3612xs DSM 4.2 build 3211++ (repack v1.2) by Trantor (viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1028) win32diskimager-v0.9-binary.zip - to transfer the img-file to the USB-stick (http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager) Paragon_ExtFS_for_Windows_2.41.exe - to mount ext-filesystem on USB-stick (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-windows) hexedit.exe - (viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1353) ver2.zip - Excel to calculate serial from mac-address (viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1353) Synology Assistant - http://global.download.synology.com/dow ... 3-4206.exe Before installing the 4TB drives, I did the BIOS "upgrade", made by TheBay. See the link above. Downloaded the BIOS-pack, unpacked and executed Runme.exe, which transfered the files to my USB-stick and made it bootable. Put the USB stick into the server and booted - let it work and it upgraded my BIOS with success. Removed the USB stick and rebooted the server and went into BIOS. Configured the BIOS according to this: From the main screen go to ‘Chipset > Southbridge Configuration > SB SATA Configuration’ and make sure your settings are the same as below: OnChip SATA Channel = Enabled SATA PORTS 4/5 IDE mode = Disabled SATA EPS on all PORT = Enabled SATA Power on all PORT = Enabled Return to the main screen then go to ‘Advanced > IDE Configuration’ and again, make sure your settings are the same as below. Embedded SATA Link Rate = 3.0Gbps MAX Next is building the USB stick to launch the Synology bootrom. Using win32diskimager I transfered "synoboot-trantor-4.2-3211-v1.2.img" to the USB-stick. I want to edit the vendor-file on the USB-stick, so the MAC-address matches the servers. To edit the MAC address and serial number, I used this guide: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1353 I'm using 64bit Win8, so to mount the ext-filesystem on the USB-stick, I used Paragon ExtFS for Windows. http://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-windows Unmounted the ext-filesystem in ExtFS and ejected the USB-stick from the PC. See this guide from point 5, showing how to start the server from the USB-stick and install DSM. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17 Put the USB-stick back into the N54L and powered on. Waited about 2 minutes - followed the progress on the monitor I had connected to the N54L. From the PC I launched Synology Assistant and it found the server. Removed the USB-stick from the server!! Started the install of XPEnology_trantor_v1.2_DSM_DS3612xs_3211.pat from Synology Assistant. Set the admin password and the name of my server. I went with DHCP, but you may set the IP-address to be fixed during the install. When the server reboots in the process, I put in the USB-stick again. The server finished the install and a few moments later it was ready for access from the browser. That's it and how I did a successfull install. I have bundled all the files needed in one zip: http://hbgpc.dk/xpenology/XPEnology_DS3 ... 2-N54L.ZIP Please feel free to comment.

Hi _NAS? I have just installed a N54L with XPEnology by trantor. Thanks to trantor for an amazing job!! I used "XPEnology DS3612xs DSM 4.2 build 3211++ (repack v1.2)" which is working very well for me. I have made a little guide to how I did it, but I don't know if I'm allowed to post links to a collection of files. You see, I have packed all the files I have used into one ZIP. I would love to post my guide - it is not fancy with pictures or anything - but I want to have a green light to do it, as I'm new to this forum and don't want to be banned for posting illegal posts.