[Tutorial: Install DSM 7.x with TinyCore RedPill (TCRP) Loader on ESXi]

I’m trying to set up a VM from scratch and have followed these steps as closely as I can…but whatever I try I can not seem to get the bootloader to update to include the two RedPill options. I update, serialgen, satamap, build, backup, etc, and all I ever get is TinyCore in the GRUB menu.

 

Does anyone have any ideas why this would happen?

[TCRP question]

I must be missing something, but I can't figure out what it is. I'm trying the following on my ESXi 6.7 system which has been running a JUN DSM6 for several years:

 

I created the VM, with the latest VMDK (0.8.0.0). It boots fine, update/fullupgrade work fine, I believe the version is now 0.8.0.3 or something like that.

 

For the build I've run the following commands:

• ./rploader.sh serialgen DS3622xs+ realmac
• ./rploader.sh satamap (where I specify 9 disks, to allow 1 vmdk for volume1 and bringing over my 8 RDM devices for volume2, which I will not do until after testing)
• ./rploader.sh build broadwellnk-7.1.0-42661

The build seems to go fine and does not display any errors, however when I reboot the VM I still only have TinyCore at the GRUB screen. I don't have any entries for RedPill.

 

Anyone have any ideas?