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you must go into the bios and select the usb stick as a boot device and disable the internal USB device, if not it will default to the internal boot USB. QNAP are the same way. Also your external USB stick may have multiple volumes, you may need to try vol2, not just Vol1. i am so ready to throw my ReadyNAS 516 out the window with its ancient OS. But with a xenon processor and 16 GB of ram, i cannot bear to....

anyone tried to install xpenology on a readynas 516? this hardware is great but the software is aweful.

i have sadly tried 1.02b, 1.03 with most models 3615, 3517 and I am at my wits end. It will load freenas and others, but i get stuck at open the app to find the server. It never finds an IP or moves. Once it actually said booting kernel, but that was a while back and I cannot remember what combination it was. The viastor is a NAS released about 2012 with a G550 Celeron CPU running in an 1155 socket. any thoughts appreciated. This list did not help as i think i ran all combos:

I got a great deal on an a QNAP VioStor VS-2104Pro+ and while it runs the QNAP OS, it does not enable loading third party apps or file sharing--it is only an NVR. I have not figured out how to hack it to allow other QNAP apps so I will either dump it or try to install some thing else. Has anyone successfully gotten XPEnology to work? if so what versions and how stable? thanks