Hi IG, I'm sorry you have lost me, First of all yes I can see in my flash image there is a vendor section and it has the S/n and check sum in it, also when you extract the files from a .PAT they are not included as they are specific for the machine and have to be added.
You say because mine is an Arm CPU I will not be able to boot with a bootloader from "Here" Do you mean from this forum? If that's the case I did not intend to. You can see from the top of my log that I am using Bus Pirate, and I just press the esc key after boot and access the Uboot Menu, that's where I was getting the command "Bootm" which should boot linux from the memory if I was able to load Zimage directly to another memory location to avoid the "Unable to write to Block 9,0" problem.
Well that was my plan but I may be talking rubish, I am no where as good at this as you and I need things explained clearly, you speak of the first and second partition? Are you speaking of the disk structure created in memory which is refered to as the ramdisk in the log? or are you refering to different locations in the flash file?
So just to be clear, I downloaded an older DSM file from Synology I extracted it and created a flash file placing Uboot (Redboot) at 00 and Zimage and RD.gz at exactly the same locations as they were in the original flash which I got when I first read the chip, I presumed that it was Zimage which got corrupted when the power went off. I then added the Vendor and serial number stuff at exactly the same position as they were in, in the original flash image. All I could do to get the offsets was to look at the original flash read from the chip with a hex editor and build mine to match.
Now having said that, the files with the exeption of Uboot were different sizes in the older image, I presumed that as long as their start was at the same offsets as the original that wouldn't matter?
Pleas could you confirm for me, in the flash memory image, the 64k chip, is the file order Uboot, Zimage, RD.gz than the Vendor and s/n stuff, I am worried that maybe zimae should have been the second file, but as you confirmed the log does say it was initially loading ok from my flash file.
To be honest I doubt I am good enough to resurect this NAS, but I am very determined.