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I've found the files that I used: Bootloader: DS3615xs6.0.2 Jim's Mod V.1.01 DSM_DS3615xs_8451.pat And for the disk spin, I remember that after a while unused I heard the sound of disks spinning back on. Hope it helps

Hi Sandisk I've recently installed a bare metal Gen8 xpenology and haven't had any major issue yet. I'll describe what I did the best I can remember because also read a lot and got so confused at one point. I downloaded a very recent xpenoboot image, that post had a VMware file and the iso img for bare metal. Flashed image to a USB drive without modification Set up ahci and USB boot in BIOS Stuffed 2 HDDs in server for this test Booted from USB and the fist time it installed fine using default install option from xpenoboot, however I wanted to change the s/n and Mac address, so I reboot and this time I selected force install otherwise it would boot DSM as normal. At the boot prompt I pressed a key to get xpenoboot console (sorry I don't remember how, i can look up the guide I followed) At xpenoboot console I manually changed the Mac and S/N and it persisted , I guess you can skip this step if somehow the .img can be extracted, modify grub.cfg file and repack the image... After changing the Mac and S/N to a valid pair I reinstalled DSM successfully. I used a downloaded DSM file because installing from internet looked like it was stuck, so I preferred to download DSM file in advance. Now for your questions: 1. I think that BIOS bug is only present if you try to set a power-on schedule within DSM. As far as I remember power-off schedule works but power-on resets your BIOS. 2. Dunno about the spinning, I'll check the disks to see what SMART test says. 3. Didn't even tested this due to the BIOS bug, I assume power off does, a possibility is to WoL via iLo network. 4. Let me look this up for you and also for my own reference if I need to reinstall the server. 5. DSM will wipe your disks , please consider it, in fact DSM is installed in the HDDs, not in the USB drive. I used 2 small drives 160GB for this test. Edit: re read the question, on an early attempt, I created 2 virtual drives to DSM ant it recognized them fine, I think that if you set up passthrough then DSM would get full access to the drives and will wipe them. I would not recommend using HP raid controller due to all the posts I read against using it (although it was in freenas installs) plus you would get an additional point of failure. I formatted my drives within DSM using ext4 just so data would be available booting from Ubuntu if needed in some point. Edit2: First post and I can't believe I typed this much on my cellphone.