[Jun1.04b and RTL8111/8168/8411]

Hi @IG-88,

Were you able to create an updated 1.04b to include the 8111 drivers? If yes, I would really like to test as I'm still stuck with poor proxmox performance, and this little pc that will only boot 1.04 due to uefi bios (I think).

Thanks,

Matt

[Driver extension jun 1.03b/1.04b for DSM6.2.2 for 3615xs / 3617xs / 918+]

On 12/19/2019 at 9:50 PM, IG-88 said:

rebuilding 918+ is in queue after christmas

looking forward to testing this on my j5005 mini pc with RTL8111 (and only boots 1.04b) 👍

[Jun1.04b and RTL8111/8168/8411]

I can confirm that the USB stick and SSD I was using on the Beelink X55 boot absolutely fine on an alternate machine (i5 5257U with 2 x Realtek 8168 NICS).

So the synoboot, extra files, and SSD I'm installing DSM on are all fine. Just something it doesn't like about the mini pc.

 

If you produce a new version I will test. I haven't soldered any com pins (I would need to buy them and a USB serial adapter).

Thanks,

Matt

 

[Jun1.04b and RTL8111/8168/8411]

Ooo - good idea. I had to do that with proxmox on the older version, then modify grub due to broken things in the motherboards UEFI implementation. I'll try that out and report back.

Funnily enough I was looking at the com port pins picture on that review and didn't notice the missing chip. Well spotted. I do see this in dmesg which looks a bit like it might be a serial port.

00:01: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A
 

Look forward to your new version, and in the meantime I'll have a go in a different machine - thanks for your help on this.

[Jun1.04b and RTL8111/8168/8411]

Checked the x55, has a com port, no header pins. I could buy a usb cable and some header pins if no-one on here has any other ideas.

It does have a wifi adaptor, I wonder if that could cause issues. It's soldered, but maybe disable in the bios, not time to try tonight, seems like a long shot.

will see if anyone has ideas!

thanks,

Matt

[Jun1.04b and RTL8111/8168/8411]

OK, got a chance this evening. Created synoboot with those .lzma files replacing those in Jan's original 1.04b.

After install reboot, it never comes back. Tried removing the monitor.

mini pc is beelink gemini x55.

I think I'm going to be out of luck here. I don't have a serial to see what's happening...

[Jun1.04b and RTL8111/8168/8411]

thanks - I will try it out without a screen attached and check out those extra files as well. Might be next weekend now though...

[Jun1.04b and RTL8111/8168/8411]

Hi All,

I have a small mini PC, from China. Has a J5005 pentium silver chip, and I run proxmox with Jun1.04b DS918+, and latest 6.2.2 DSM.

However ideally I wanted to install baremetal. The NIC is RTL8111/8168/8411, under proxmox r8169 drive is loaded.

I get the 'usual' install issue of no network after reboot. I've tried using various extra.lzma files that others have used on some other ITX motherboards, but it's not coming back after reboot.

One question I did have was whether I should remove extra2.lzma from the synoboot file I am adding different extra.lzma files to. I tried a couple of times, but it's still not coming back.

 

So, has anyone managed to create a working 1.04b synoboot file that supports the realtek nics? If yes, could you share?

Of course, something else could be going on, hard to know as I don't have a serial console, but if someone has a working synoboot file with working realtek drives, I would try that.

 

Oh, just to add, I can't use 1.03 loader as it won't boot at all - need UEFI support I think on this mobo.

Thanks,

Matt

[Trial of Nanoboot (4493) - 5.0.3.1]

xen is turning out to be a bit of a problem. Looks like hvm emulation only supports IDE emulation, and it seems that limits things to 4 devices. Not good. nanoboot knocks one off, I have an install logical volume carved off an ssd for DSM (and DSM apps etc), and then 2 out of the 3 disks. Starting to become a bit disappointed. I could use lvm or md to pool the drives and pass as one hdx ide drive, but that's rather defeating the point of using DSM to manage that.

 

Does anyone have any ideas?

[Trial of Nanoboot (4493) - 5.0.3.1]

Hi All,

I finally managed to boot using xen, was quite straightforward in the end. Now I'm having trouble passing through more than 3 storage devices. using the hdx passthrough xen only supports 4 devices, but using the xvdx devices I should be able to use more - certainly the machine boots (it doesn't if I try going up to hde), but in DSM I only see 4 devices.

xen config :

 

bootloader='pygrub'

builder = 'hvm'

vcpus = '2'

memory = '1024'

disk = [ 'file:/media/isos/NanoBoot-5.0.3.1-fat.img,xvda,r' , 'phy:/dev/xenserver-vg/nas-lv,xvdb,w' , 'phy:/dev/sda,xvdc,w' , 'phy:/dev/sdb,xvdd,w' , 'phy:/dev/sdc,xvde,w' ]

name = 'vnas'

vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3E:51:20:4D,bridge=xenbr0,model=e1000' ]

#on_poweroff = 'shutdown'

#on_reboot = 'shutdown'

#on_crash = 'restart'

#on_xend_start = 'start'

#on_xend_stop = 'shutdown'

boot = 'dc'

acpi = '1'

acpi = '1'

apic = '1'

viridian = '1'

xen_platform_pci='1'

sdl = '0'

vnc = '1'

vnclisten = '0.0.0.0'

vncdisplay='1'

stdvga = '0'

usb = '0'

usbdevice = ['tablet' ]

device_model_version="qemu-xen-traditional"

gfx_passthru=0

 

 

I wonder if anyone has any experience of this? Is there anything in nanoboot that limits the number of devices?

Thanks,

Matt

[XPEnology gnoBoot]

Also using xen on Ubuntu, the config is a bit different. I don't really understand where the Debian live CD comes in - I guess you're booting this then modifying grub to boot gnoBoot?

 

I'm trying to use gnoboot with Xen (not Xenserver) on Debian, without any result, kernel is booting, but no disk is found.

 

How do you do on Ubuntu ? Do you have a cfg config file ?

 

Thanks for your help.

That's what I need as well. I haven't been able to get anything to boot so far!

[XPEnology gnoBoot]

 

Hi there,

unfortunately gnoBoot 10.5 (last release) is not working in both PV-mode and Full HW-virt mode.. (problems with disks) What is another problem is that pygrub on XenServer 6.2 does not support LZMA and XZ compressed kernels, thus 10.4 was not working in pvirt.. XS Creedence Alpha should be fixing that..

 

nanoBoot is not booting on Xen completly... (full-hw-virt and pvrit..)

 

About how to install gnoBoot.. generaly when gnoBoot was active he was releasing either full images (dd if=gnoboot-zImage.img of=/dev/sda..) or only zImage file if only that changed (mount /dev/sda /mnt; cd /mnt; cp ~/gnoboot-zImage /mnt/zImage;).

Anyway you should better check if /dev/sda1 will be bootable -> cfdisk).

Personaly, for working with gnoBoot I was using Live Debian CD. So I:

1) Created VM using "other install media", choosed Live Debian CD

2) Transfered required files using scp and dd and/or cp... + edit grub config

3) Rebooted VM -> Run gnoBoot in Full-virt-mode

4) Experimented with pygrub, changing xe vm-param-set -> I think I posted another post just regarding this -> Running pvirt -> generaly not succesfull

 

Hope this helps

If you will find how to run latest Synology DSM image I would love to know how you managed that

 

Hmm, will have to think about this - I was hoping there would be an image I could boot directly with xen. Also using xen on Ubuntu, the config is a bit different. I don't really understand where the Debian live CD comes in - I guess you're booting this then modifying grub to boot gnoBoot?

[XPEnology gnoBoot]

Update for v5 on XenServer

 

Problem with hard disks persists. During installation of DSM -> Error 38. Tried 4458, 3827, booting with/without gnoboot_me... Still the same

 

[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.2.40 (root@gnoboot) (gcc version 4.7.3 20130102 (prerelease) (crosstool-NG 1.18.0) ) #5 SMP Mon Mar 10 20:37:38 CST 2014

 

Lol, you're using the wrong zImage. That's five-zero kernel which doesn't have the XEN disk patch.

 

okey (misunderstood your gdisk files..), anyway I just downloaded last one just now:

 

uname -a

Linux DiskStation 3.2.40 #1 SMP Sat Mat 15 13:16:17 CST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux synology_bromlow_3612xs

 

DSM 5.0 4458 sucesfully installed on XenServer 6.2SP1 using gnoboot-alpha10.3-zImage !

• Using 32MB primary boot disk, and 8GB second system disk, 2 VCPU, 512MB RAM
  
• Using HVM (Other install media, during Xen VM creation).
  
• Disabled viridian `xe vm-param-set uuid=... platform:viridian=false` (Makes sure virt-what coretly recognizes Xen)
  
• gnoBoot image installed using `dd if=gnoboot-alpha-vfat.img of=/dev/sda1` (Using Debian Live distro)
  
• Modified `/boot/grub/menu_alpha.lst` and `/boot/grub/menu_me.lst` added `vga=0x318 sn=B3JN00...`
  
• DSM 5.0 4458 installed after booting with grub menu item gnoboot.me –> install/upgrade/downgrade 4458

 

Thank you gnoBoot! Thank you very much!

 

Later this weekend, maybe next week I will try to install xe-guest-utilities, and hopefuly I will give paravirtualization another shot (If suceeded I will post guide/code here)

 

Hi - I'm trying to understand how to boot gnoboot from xen - in my case xen on an ubuntu dom0. You mention here you use the zImage file, but then it looks more like you used the vfat.img. If you have any further detail or suggestion I'd appreciate it. I've tried mapping the img files in my config but xen won't boot them. I can map the iso versions, but they also don't boot, though xen does then see them as boot images. Any help really appreciated...

[Xen?]

Hi All,

I've been trying to find if there's a way to boot XPEnology inside a Xen VM. I already have a server running xen 4.4 and wanted to install inside a Xen VM. Searching the forum I'm finding lots of ESXi and virtualbox help, but very little on Xen. Is anyone using Xen? If yes, I'd appreciate some tips on where to start (what image to map to boot as everything I've tried doesn't boot).

Also, if anyone knows it's not possible, please let me know!

Thanks,

Matt

[[GUIDE] How to install DSM on XenServer 6.2]

I would be interested in a guide to installing inside xen, or actually just some basic steps! I tried with a nanoboot iso image - it tries to boot it but nothing happens. Perhaps nanoboot won't work in xen.