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I commented the line in menu.sh which pings to 8.8.8.8 and was able to build the loader. It was merely a notice to @Peter Suh that maybe he could find another way/ping to verify internet connection. Thank you

My organization blocks pings to 8.8.8.8 or 4.4.4.4 or 1.1.1.1.

Hi @Peter Suh. I need some help. I did flash your latest version of tcrp and xtcrp and I can not build the loader. It waits for the internet connection but I do have internet on it. Thanks

Again, this is normal. All loaders does that, you wont see any more messages on the screen, whether it will go into kernel panic or it will work normally. Possible solutions: 0. Check your router admin web page in DHCP leases and find your pc MAC to identify IP address - access 192.168.0.1 from other PC/Laptop/Tablet 1. Install a LAN PCIe x1 card with Realtek or Intel Chipset 2. Some USB type-C or type-A to LAN card with Realtek chipset may also work. 3. RR-Loader has support for WIFI. Check loader config to setup wireless connection Use latest version 3a. Try other DS eg: DS3622 or SA6400 or DS1819 etc. 4. If none of the above work, you can install Proxmox and go with Virtual Machine. There are o lot of tutorials that can help you.

Hi. Your LAN has Killer E2500 Gigabit LAN controller and may not be supported. Use one with Realtek or Intel chipset or install Proxmox and make VM with your disk passthrough. After the loader initializes DMS loading process, you wont see any more messages on the screen, only on serial port. This is normal behavior. Also check your router web page in DHCP leases and find your pc mac to identify IP address

Hi. My guess is that you don't have enough SSD storage space to move all your data. If you want to keep actual configuration, I would separate the DS apps, config and settings from data which is located on spinning drives. Add the SSD to your actual VM. Make new volume and move applications and containers to SSD using @007revad script. Or start fresh with a new VM, install DSM and apps on SSD, then add the drives. The DSM will tell you that it found a storage pool and will give you the possibility to get it online. @007revad Is it possible to make a script that can change the name of a volume and storage pool?

Hi. I would use @007revad backup scripts to backup all apps and settings and clone actual VM on ssd and start restore apps. How do you have your data located on drives? One single/multiple disk/s passtrough?

@Christian72D Hi. Why don't you make one VM yourself? You need a loader from i18n or RR ver 24.4.4 or older with support for DSM6. It works with DSM 6.2.4-25556 update 8. Example of vm.conf args: -device 'nec-usb-xhci,id=usb-bus0,multifunction=on' -drive 'file=/var/lib/vz/template/iso/ds1621xs-arpl-i18n-23.9.0.img,media=disk,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-disk-bootloader' -device 'usb-storage,bus=usb-bus0.0,port=1,drive=drive-disk-bootloader,id=usb-disk-bootloader,bootindex=999,removable=on' Replace file location with your config. Let me know if it works for you.

Like @Peter Suh said "REDPILL project is open source on GitHub. The advantage is that anyone can become a new developer with a new loader." Right now there are three developers that actively maintain a version of REDPILL project. So there is hope. As for the build the quiet ones are those with passive cooling (integrated cpu/gpu) or with very silent fans (with T versions of a cpu) and SSD drives.

Hi! From my personal pov this build is overkill. Considering the DSM 7.1 runs fine with 8GB of RAM, integrated CPU and GPU, your configuration is more than enough. Now, what do you want to do with this build? Some of us think about the costs involved running a home server 24/7 and chose other components. But running from a work place where electricity bill is not an issue this build offers a plenty of choices regarding usability.

Hi! From my Proxmox Server I can backup my DS VM using integrated backup function and I can restore it without any issues. It copies both the loader and only the virtual disk drive if it is in the configuration of the VM. I use i18n and newly RR loader. I also have a backup copy of the Proxmox installation and I used Disk Genius, it has a PE environment. Never encountered any problems when I use save to image file in data mode, not file mode. I think it helps if you try to be more specific like post images or logs The loader, by default, is in the /var/lib/vz/template/iso folder, but you may have other storage location and the loader may be located somewhere else. If you look at the VM's configuration file (vi //etc/pve/nodes/*you-pve-name*/qemu-server/100.conf) you may see the location, but I think you already know that.

Hi. With proxmox you can have transcoding because you can passthrough gpu and other stuff like ssd, hdd, while in Windows with VirtualBox I don't think you can do that with gpu. Also you can install a gui and use pc in the same time for browsing, office etc. On my work pc I have installed a debian 12.5.0 netinst and then proxmox and a minimal gnome gui. It works very well from nvme drive

@007revad has developed a lot of useful scripts. It is worth to take a look maybe there is something helpful.

DSM 7.x has different partitions sizes. It wont get fixed the old ones unless you format them. Or you keep the spare one on Storage Pool 1 and the old ones in Storage Pool 2. Problem solved. You said you have a backup system that was upgraded without any problems. Either put the old drives in that system so that the first partition will be resynced with the DSM from the backup system, or you could make a clone from one of the drives that are in Storage Pool 1 of the backup system and restore that partition to all of the old drives. Also clone the bootloader.

Hi. It seems that this tower does not have an integrated graphics chipset. So you should install an graphic card to be able use pc.