I had a bunch of spare random gear lying around.. and an old 2-bay QNAP NAS that I was going to throw a couple larger drives in.. when a friend sent me a link to Xpenology.. So I threw the gear together, had to mess around a tiny bit to make the AMD board work, and in an evenings work, I now have an Xpenology NAS sitting beside me in an Antec 900 case..
So thanks to @Polanskiman for his tutorial, @jun for his bootloader, @IG-88 for the extra-lzma that let my AMD chipset talk to the network and @jensmander whose handy little utility put much of it in one easy place.
If I have only one suggestion.. and its a note somewhere on how to use the extra-lzma. I googled around a lot and finally found a note that mentioned you had to mount Juns loader but Partition 1, not partition 0 .. order to substitute the extra-lzma.
thanks again,
cakes..