Hello!
I have an issue that is making me bald at the moment...
First of all, my config and procedure:
HP N54L with modded bios (worked great with FreeNAS for a year)
Using only onboard LAN
Jun's Loader v1.03b (model DS3615xs)
5 SATA harddrives plugged in
I followed the excellent guide by Polanskiman, created the bootable USB stick and booted up the HP box. Synology Assistant found the unit, and I applied the DSM patch file DSM_DS3615xs_24922.pat (DSM 6.2.2-24922). It seemed to install, and asked to reboot the machine. After the reboot the box never came back online again, so I thought I would reset everything and start from scratch, but apply an older DSM instead.
So I recreated the USB stick, rebooted, and Synology Assist once again found the unit. But this time it asked me to restore the config (detected config on the harddrives), I had no option to install a DSM manually. So I figured I would try that. It rebooted once again, but never came back online.
Fine, so I rebooted again and tried the reinstall boot option. Synology Assistant never found the unit.
So I figured I would clean the harddrives. I put back my FreeNAS USB stick, booted it up and deleted all pools and wiped the drives. Back in with the DSM USB stick and rebooted. Nothing found.
I unplugged all the harddrives. Nothing found. I added a new harddrive never used before. Nothing found. Reflashed the USB stick. Nothing found. I even tried reflashing with an older boot loader (Jun's Loader v1.02b), nothing found. Whatever I do now it won't get any connection, it won't get any IP assigned. I tried everything. I wanted 10-15 mins between the reboots and checks.
I put back the FreeNAS stick and it boots just fine, so hardware is fine, so is network connections, all with the same drives, hardware, cables and settings, so it's nothing of that. And Synology Assistant did find the device twice, but never after that.
Anyone have any idea what to do next?