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Got the cable and can now access bios. When I have no hdd attached, I can enter bios and select UAB flash drive as 1st boot device. When I add hdd in lowest slot, boot hangs at ahci0 and I cannot enter bios. Can I get you (@vicrod74) to post screenshots or help me with settings of your hard drive ? TIA.

Thanks !! Will try it. Do you have it working on your system...

Any thoughts. Just had a power disruption, openhab stopped. I have to be onsite to reboot ( pull and push hard drive)..

I have a headless EX495 that runs Xpenology well. The only issue is that whenever there is a power failure or I reboot the system, the Xpenology stops and cannot reboot. This is due to the fact that the headless mediasmart machines need the lowest sata drive tray pulled out and usb booted and sata drive pushed in at the correct time to boot. For a server build, this is inconvenient. Is there a way to edit syslinux.cfg to boot without pulling and then pushing sata drive to improve reliablility as a server. Anyone have any thoughts ? (This is a fantastic project but I am always tinkering.)

How are you timing the removal and subsequent replacement of the hard drive for reliable full boot of Xpenology? This is the main thing that has been holding me back from converting my EX495. Make sure your USB boot up is in the last one from the bottom in the back of the EX495. If you place the usb bootup drive in any other USB port, it will not work. When booting up just make sure SATA-0 is unplugged before turning on. I would give about 7 seconds then plug the hard drive back in. It will continue to boot up from there. I would also suggest if you do not know the IP address to look into your router and see what IP address you get for "DiskStation". To avoid further confusion on IP address, what I did was I made DHCP in my router give it the same IP address all the time from the exclusion list. Your router should be able to do this. I do the same. Usb in the last slot in the back of EX495. Sata lowest drive tray pulled out. Power the device. You will see the network and activity led turn on and appear green. In a few seconds the network led turns off and then comes on again in green color and simultaneously the activity led starts blinking red and green alternatively. Push the lowest sata drive tray in and you should see the synology assistant pickup your system in a 30 seconds or so.

Thanks for the tutorial. Worked on my EX495 !

Can you write the commands you used to achieve this. It would help noobs like me. Thanks ! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk