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After all 2TB drive worked anyway - but not as bootable for DSM. I don't know what is the issue, it's weird.

OK - so problem solved. Everything was caused by HDD - 2TB WD Green that I used for installation. I was always thinking that WD and Seagate hard drives are reliable and should work with any controller - always trusted them more than to Toshiba, Hitachi etc. That actually are probably just rebranded - and unknown origins. My Raid setup is based on two Seagate Pipelines 2TB and one WD RED 2TB. WD Green was just an spare in case if one of three mentioned would fail. I was hoping I will be able to use my old disks, now I'm not sure - what if they wont work? If as simple drive, as WD Green 2TB can't work here - what drives should I use? Is that exact drive faulty? Or is that controllers fault? Or what?

I have AHCI enabled. RAM is not the case - tested both modules. Now I'm doing backup of another HDD to get it for tests, as my last chance is that it's HDD's fault. It can be HDD as 2TB disk is discovered by BIOS as 200.0GB - is that normal? Both Windows and DS509+ sees it as 2TB, and it's nothing unusual - its normal WD Green 2TB. Now I'm going to test Seagate Barracuda 1TB, but if it's HDD issue, I'm a bit worried, I have SHR of 4x2TB disks mixed types - I don't even want to think about that.

Yes, device is getting DHCP. The issue is not with network connection. The issue is that booting is not passing early installer stage - where you can connect via IP:5000 to upload DSM file. Whole problem is that I can't go beyond that point. It is installing than server automatically reboot and that's it. I have to use find tool again and I see device with status: Configuration lost. And only what I can do is to start installation again. Only other ideas I have are to try different hard drive for installation and to take one of memory DIMMs out... as maybe it's RAM related error. The machine itself works - I booted Linux Mint from USB stick without any issue. It must be something, but what? and worst thing is that there is no any debug information. Is there any way to switch debug on to see what's happening during the boot?

No ... onboard NIC is switched off in the BIOS. I'm using Intel based PCIe card that was inserted by previous owner. I did try to load from the network - the same problem. Now I removed that PCI card and I'm going to try internal NIC - just need to get MAC and generate new loader. I removed PCIe card and tried using Atheros onboard NIC - apart of front LED activity didn't notice anything new.

I've updated BIOS to modded one, set everything as on the screens, prepared 1.03b bootloader, downloaded DSM6.2.3 from linked topic, and ... nothing. Still the same. After uploading machine reboots, and go back to initial installer screen. No prompt for username/password as expected. I think that boot process is initiated, as HDD LED flashes for several seconds as when data are loading, but on some point it stops - it looks it stuck on some point - before installation web service is changed to DSM.

Great thanks, As I don't know French, I have to use google translation - which confuses me - I'm not sure if I have BIOS 041-2011 what should I do? Should I flash with which BIOS file ?

Thanks for your replies, In terms of switching internalNIC off, I could not find that switch in the BIOS. There is only witch in Boot tab - that can switch on/off booting from internal NIC. I didn't know that internal NIC is supported, so I used external one (which was already fitted by previous server owner). I reed somewhere that it can be important which SATA port is used, and that first disk should be connected to first port. In Microserver there is one big port that split into 4 bays - I tried first and last. Should I try the others? Maybe I should use 3617 instead of 3615? Page offering migration has nothing else. You can choose from between two options migrate with keeping data or do migrate with wiping data off. If I use find.synology.com - NAS is being found, but it says that status is: Configuration Lost. If I connect I can only migrate/reinstall. My hardware is HP Proliant microserver with AMD Turion II Neo N54L 2.2Ghz , 6GB RAM Could someone point to exact files that I should download and use for installation? Maybe I should use different extras file?

H, I spent few hours struggling with DSM installation, I have tried versions 6.2.3 and 6.2.1 (with juns bootloader 1.03b) 6.1 with 1.02b and finally wend down to 6.02 with 1.01. Last one I tried with both normal and AMD modes (in newer bootloaders there is no AMD option). I have Csomething switched off in my BIOS. I have Intel PCIE Gigabit card and I have noted it MAC address and used in in grub config each time I tried. Also VID and PID noted and changed in grub config according to that what I found in device manager for my usb dongle. Before each next try I took HDD out, and and wiped out previous installation. I also tried two different USB sticks - to be sure if it's not the issue. This also didn't help. Unfortunately each time result was the same. After initial setup (partitioning, uploading DSM) machine reboots and instead of next steps of installation, I see just counter going down to 0:00 ... nothing else. If I refresh the page, I see option to migrate ... so actually to restart installation. I did try everything suggested in loop installation topic already. I have no idea what it can be. On the screen I see Booting kernel image and nothing more - it stuck on that - however, initial installation page is accessible still. I'm frustrated a bit - I bought this server specially for that purpose - to upgrade from my ancient Synology DS509+ and now I feel it can't be done. Do you have any ideas maybe? Thanks, A