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ralphte

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  1. Performance is better then you might imagine. Not to give away the spoiler but if configured right it's all most on par with a physical box. Thinks for the heads up on the old Firefox. I will look in to this.
  2. Very nice tutorials, keep up the good work. Is the SMART status working in DSM when you run gnoBoot and Synology DSM 5.0 in ESXi 5.5 with Raw Disk Mapping? Thanks No SMART does not work with Raw Disk Mapping. BUT if you use ESXi pass though with VT-d it does work. Will be doing a video on this as well. Also this might get fixed in a future version of gnoBoot.
  3. I have started posting guides for gnoboot on my site http://www.thedarkcloud.net . I have my first videos posted with hard copy instructions to follow. MANY more guides to come!! Please let me know what you all think Thanks
  4. I have posted a mirror for gnoboot. No ads, login or anything. I will keep this site updated with gnoboot as a mirror. I will also be putting up some how-to's and keeping them up to date. http://thedarkcloud.net/downloads-5/
  5. Well gnoBoot is pretty sweet. Alpha 10 is really good. Turn key on my HP Proliant micro server. Works great with ESXi 5.5 will be posting a guide for setup on ESXi.
  6. Well To do what as been asked I will give mine below. Since I was unable to get alpha9 working at all in ESXi 5.5 the only release that I was able to test was alpha 5. Alpha 9: after installing it would cause a grub error. I tried everything I could and could not fix this. I spent over 6 hours and one upset girl friend and still no luck. The only way to not get the grub error was to install alpha5 Alpha 5: It installed fine but I could not get iSCSI to work. Windows files share worked and where very fast. Did not get to test NFS. This was using version 5 of the DSM. I am hoping the alpha 10 vfat image works. I don't know if it had to do with the fact that since it was a zimage with alpha9 that I messed it up and caused the grub error after install. Also for all the esxi user out there I plan on doing a write up / guide once I get a working configuration for all to go off.
  7. Could yo send me the alpha 8 update or the link to it. I would like to try what you have done.
  8. I have the fix for this issue will submit here in a few.
  9. I was using windows programs to do it, but they are PIA to get working correctly, so I figured out how to do it in linux. fdisk -l image.img. you'll see it has a partition that starts at sector 63. And that each sector is 512 bytes. so then setup a loop device of the image file starting at that offset (so you can access the partition). Then mount it. delete the old zImage, copy over new one. Sync (not sure if needed - can't hurt?). unmount it. delete the loop device. you now have updated image file I created a little script that does it for me and shows the stats of the old zImage and new one so I know it updated. BTW, you can do this with both a image file, or esxi vdmk. losetup /dev/loop0 gnoboot-flat.vmdk -o $((63*512)) mount /dev/loop0 /mnt stat /mnt/zImage rm /mnt/zImage cp zImage /mnt chmod 644 /mnt/zImage stat /mnt/zImage sync umount /dev/loop0 losetup -d /dev/loop0 when using my script, i have both the image file and new zImage in the same path as the script. Well this would work but the img file I have is two small. it 32MB and the new zimage is 16mb Essentially the is not enough space on the partion to do what you did. does any one have the alph7.img file so i can put the new zimage in to that. Thanks.
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