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Just a quick how-to for anyone finding this thread, I installed DSM 7.2-64561 on my F2-220 quickly and all features work (except those that require a valid Synology account login as I do not have a valid Synology serial). I had a lot of trouble with a few different bootloader apps so figured I'd chime in with what finally worked
- Remove the internal USB flash drive
- Just for safety's sake and future use I made an image of the TOS internal flash drive using Passmark imageUSB (https://www.osforensics.com/tools/write-usb-images.html), I wrote the new image to another flash drive and tested it by booting the F2-220 successfully
- Installed win32diskImager (https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/) for writing the bootloader image(s) to new USB drives
- Downloaded fork arpl-i18n fork version 23.5.10 (https://github.com/wjz304/arpl-i18n). I tried every single redpill loader related bootloader, fork, etc both the original and automated variety and each one failed for some reason or another EXCEPT this one.
- Wrote arpl-i18n 23.5.10 to a new 32GB USB flash drive. (A note about flash drives: I spent a couple of hours banging my head against a wall trying to install this with other loaders and my initial problem was the USB flash drive it self. If you are having errors when trying to build try a different flash drive, preferably different brand/manufacturer. I had several Silicon Power drives that all had same errors when trying to build, had some issues with other drives too, this is apparently VERY sensitive about drive/speed/manuafacturer. The one that finally worked for me was a generic drive I happened to find in a drawer. Again, if you're struggling with errors in build, try a different flash drive).
- Replaced the new arpl-i18n drive in my F2-220, plugged in the ethernet and power and booted up.
- F2-220 will pull an IP address from DHCP, so after it has booted up, check your router or run your preferred network scanner to find its IP address
- Installation can be down via browser or SSH, if using a browser goto http://<IPADDRESS>:7681
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Go through the first 3 menu items
- Model I choose 918+
- Build 64561
- Chose first MAC address
- Autogenerate serial number
- Auto select number of SATA ports
- Build
- It will take a few minutes to download and build the bootloader (depending on your internet connection)
- After build is complete you'll be presented with the option to soft boot to the new DSM bootloader
- Once it has loaded, point your browswer to http://<IPADDRESS>:5000 and follow instructions to install Synology DSM. I chose to upload and install the 7.2 build I had downloaded direct from Synology, but I could have chosen to auto-install and let it download the newest version as (at the time I'm writing this), the newest build was 64561, same as the newest build to download from Synology
- Skip the account registration/login step as it will fail since you have a generated serial number that does not match any actual Synology device
- Reboot and enjoy
- Everything works except remote access type tools that rely on the Synology account login, etc
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Second this. I could not get command line to build for anything (various errors depending on what setting I was changing to attempt to troubleshoot, but NO successful build). Switched to editing the user_config.json via command line but then switching to the new web interface to run the build. Successful build everytime. If I get spare time to go through my logs I'll of file a proper bug report on pocopico's github, but until then, if you're having problems, try the web interface to run any builds.