johnb

Nevermind, I searched all the options I could find and found the solution in a previous post. My apologies, I am brand new to this. Though I would recommend editing the original tutorial for brain dead newbies like myself to specifically state the need to choose the "manual" option under migrate. For those on an amd N36L or something like it, and unfamiliar with linux, you simply follow the instructions in Polanskiman's signature for editing the system partition. You have to create a Ubuntu live cd, then follow his instructions to get access to the system folder. Then you have to under terminal do sudo gedit, to open the version file in root access. you make the changes desrcribed in the previous thread to tell your system that you are on an older 5.2 version, then save, turn it off and go back and install again from scratch. It goes right back to the migrate option and I was able to do a manual migrate, now everything is up and working on 6.02. Thank you SO MUCH for this thread!

Help Please! I am on an N36L that has worked perfectly with 5 drives. I followed all instructions carefully as I could. put the USB drive in and booted up the synology, chose the migrate method according to the instructions and kept waiting for where to choose the file DSM_DS3615xs_8451.pat. However, it never came up, and now I am in a recover loop. I see it has happened to others, Apparently, when it said migrate, I should have chosen "manual" but I did not know that as I did not understand that was what the directions meant. Is there any way to get it working again with my files in place? I have about 15Tb of info I would prefer to keep if at all possible. I went and tried putting in my old usb from 5.2 and it starts and then just shows a ton of erros of files it can't find so it won't load either now. Would really appreciate some help. I also tried doing a fresh usb drive and installing again, but it just jumps right to the same recover page and doesn't give the option to install.