[gnoboot & DSM 5.0-4482 - Experiences?]

Thanks for the great work.

 

Just FYI:

I tried upgrading my system from 4458 to 4482 using jasonhan's guide. It keeped my Volume, shares and users, but unmounted all disks, the wired thing was that I could still write to the shares. The volume and data was there, but in DSM GUI, there was no disks, wired.

I then went back to 4458 update 2, no problem.

Hopefully gnoboot can figure it out.

 

If you don't login WebUI, it will not trigger the unmount action. So everything looks fine.

[gnoboot & DSM 5.0-4482 - Experiences?]

i used ultraedit

 

I appreciate the response, assuming you were responding to me, but you didn't actually answer my question. As I stated, I know how to perform the action of editing the files, I just don't know where they are located or how to get to them.

 

You should mount the gnoboot volume to the system, then use vi command to edit the menu_me.lst file.

 

mkdir /gnoboot
mount /dev/gnoboot1 /gnoboot
cd /gnoboot/boot/grub
ls

[gnoboot & DSM 5.0-4482 - Experiences?]

Does anyone know if there a way to get the .pat file for 5.0-4458 with update 2 incorporated since the gui now only wants to update to 5.0-4482?

 

The update 2 is not a single file, but a collection of files with a configure file under root directory.

[gnoboot & DSM 5.0-4482 - Experiences?]

It's a strange thing. The new 4482 version kills all data volumes' device node under /dev directory. Even if I manually add back the block device node using "mknod" command, they will be removed immediately.

[gnoboot & DSM 5.0-4482 - Experiences?]

I've managed to install 4482 using gnoboot 10.5 inspired by this post http://xpenology.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2152&start=820#p16617.

 

Steps:

1. Under GRUB main menu, navigate to "gnuboot.me", then press [Enter] key.

2. Under second menu, let the first item "gnoboot-5.0-4458 (install/upgrade/downgrade" selected, then press [e] key.

3. Press [down] key to highlight the second item "kernel /zImage gnoboot_me=5.0-4458", then press [e] key again to enter the grub edit mode.

4. Now you can manually change the version number from 4458 to 4482, then press [Enter] key to compile editing and go back to the former screen.

5. Make sure the highlighted item has been changed to "kernel /zImage gnoboot_me=5.0-4482", then press key to boot from this item.

 

Hence, using browser to upload 4482 pat image file. The installation will complete smoothly.