[Install 918+ on MSI MAG B460M MORTAR]

2 hours ago, IG-88 said:

maybe try to set up a usb/disk "pair" (1.04b dsm 6.2.3 918+) on another system and move that already istalled/running combination to the new hardware, that way you skip the install process, with the intel nic there should be no driver problem (and with 8125 disabled in bios there should be only 2 nic ports, so under all conditions it should stay within the 2 port limit of 918+)

 

Yes, that solved it for me. I used the synoboot.img I created and have been running in esxi, modified the grub.cfg to the correct mac address. Then burned it to a usb stick.

It took some time, but finally I can connect! Now I am up running ds918+ with 1.04b boot loader.

 

Thanks for all the assistance.

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1 hour ago, IG-88 said:

check your local computer you are using to access the system with, if you can use icmp (ping) but not other ports then maybe  local firewall rules prevent access, maybe try a different system like phone/tablet's browser to access that ip address on the ports 5000 (http)  / 5001 (https)

 

When starting up my old xpenology with the same usb stick, everything is ok. It can be reached on port 5000. There must be something with my new hardware causing this problem.

Tested to connect from other devices as well, to no avail.

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On 8/20/2020 at 12:40 PM, smoothmove said:

Only had to remove the USB from the old setup and transfer drives over.  It booted right up and didn't require any fiddling or setup.  Had to reset the static IP only.

 

Hi smoothmove!

I have roughly the same hardware, but fail to install any xpenology version.

 Can you show your grub.cfg file (without the serial and mac address)? Hopefully there is something simple I have missed.

 

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Just to clarify I have the onboard NIC turned off and just using the dual pci NIC, which should be compatible.

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13 minutes ago, IG-88 said:

 

not sure what you have in mind, what exactly is that code?

 

grub.cfg file in 918+ has the following code:

 

#        if [ -s $img/$extra_initrd ]; then
#                initrd $img/rd.gz $img/$extra_initrd
#        else
#                initrd $img/rd.gz
#        fi

 

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Tested with DS3615xs, DS3617xs and DS916p 6.1 Jun's Mod V1.02b. All the same behavior. Grabs an ip-number and responds to ping. But not seen by synology assistant. I have tested with 2 different usb sticks.

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Thanks for the quick response!

 

The cpu is i5-10400 and the motherboard can only boot in UEFI.

But I will give 1.02b a try.

 

A question regarding extra.lzma: There are some disabled code in loadinitrd, should that be enabled to get the extra to load?

 

 

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Board.txt

I have been trying to install 918+ using 1.04b, but failed so far. I have tested different extras, including the latest 13.3. I have an external nic that works. The onboard nic has been disabled.

 

I can see that an ip-number is assigned, and I can also ping (although the communication breaks from time to time). But I can not get any further. I can not find it with synology assistant.

 

My guess is that some of the hardware is to new and is not working properly. Could it be the USB? Any ideas?

 

For the time being running I am running it with esxi. But most of the hardware is not supported there, including the usb. Here is how the esxi sees the motherboard. I have also included the detailed specifications of the motherboard from esxi.