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Well, as you may know, Realtek makes more than 1 model of nic's, and without knowing exactly what your model is, I can only "read the tarot-cards" icon_e_wink.gif.6cb21a1598c60a3e338b292b3bad5ae0.gif or guess.

 

In one of my test-setups, using Asrock Q1900-ITX, the nic is a RTL8111GR, this works both with :

bootloader 1.03 DS3617, DSM up to, and including 6.2 update2, but not 6.2.1

bootloader 1.04 918+, DSM 6.2.1-23824 - Update 1 with no problem.

 

If you try to make a new fresh install, based on 1.03 3615/3617,

make sure to download the 6.2 pat file and install it manually and do not update to 6.2.1 then maybe it will work for you.

 

 

hi bearcat,

do u know if RTL8111H is working with 6.2.1?

 

Thanks in advance

Regards Thorlaf

 

Gesendet von meinem ONEPLUS A3003 mit Tapatalk

 

 

 

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On 12/3/2018 at 11:49 AM, bearcat said:

@xp_1409 You may use the serial provided, or you can just alter it a bit, both things will work (as long as you have only 1 NAS in you LAN using*that* serial).

 

Will all Synology Services work with this method? I want to use WOL and Photostation with automated resizing.

 

Thanks in advance again :)

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@bearcat: The only info known by me related to my server's NICs (there are two of them, on-board) is the info found on the Gigabyte site and is the one as it showed in the signature. I have no idea which kind of particular controller do I have. On the Realtek site ( https://realtek-download.com/realtek-pcie-gbe-family-controller/ ), they said:

Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
RTL8111B / RTL8168B / RTL8111 / RTL8168 / RTL8111C / RTL8111CP / RTL8111D (L) / RTL8168C / RTL8111DP / RTL8111E / RTL8168E / RTL8111F / RTL8411/ RTL8111G / RTL8111GUS / RTL8411B(N)RTL8118AS

 

Anyway, I succeed to save the files from inside the server's (user) partition, where I found all user(s)  files and structure (the one containing my files), but... (as you can see, always is a "but..." :-) )

Despite my server has one SATA III HDD (3Tb, 2.5" form), the DSM software make 4 partitions on him: one big pure ext4 partition (for user's usage) which I could accessed 'normally' and 3 other partitions which seems to be some RAID-like partitions (for OS and DSM stuff, I guess...)

 

Ok! In order to have some results in making the server working again, I want to go into the DSM's root structure to see if I could find there the famous '/.xpenoboot' directory, which I read about it around here. Some guys said (if I understood well), if this directory is deleted, then, on re-boot (using BL 1.02b as before), it could be possible to obtain an working server having the 'old' version (in my case, 6.1.7) instead of 6.2 because the real upgrade (from 6.1.x to 6.2) would have to be executed upon restart, but the real restart never occur because the BL (v1.02b) was not compatible with the preparations made by the upgrade core before restart. Maybe is wrong what I understood...

 

So, I need to "see" somehow those RAID-like partitions (from a Linux live USB). I read something about this (how it could be possible to see them) around here, but frankly, I don't remember well on which page I read about the DSM and 'mdadm' stuff. (and are a lot of pages... - btw: maybe the admin(s) would make another particular thread for VMware & ESXi stuff... just saying...)

 

Somebody could help me to refresh my 'pointers'?

Thank you, again for your answer(s)!

 

(last edit): maybe here? 

I would see...

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4 hours ago, Thorlaf said:

 

Will all Synology Services work with this method? I want to use WOL and Photostation with automated resizing.

 

Thanks in advance again :)

They work fine.  The only things so far that does not work with valid serials and MACs are Synology Quickconnect, Package purchases and Synology.me DDNS.

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agent: 1
args: -device 'piix3-usb-uhci,addr=0x18' -drive 'id=synoboot,file=/var/lib/vz/images/102/synoboot.img,if=none,format=raw' -device 'usb-storage,id=synoboot,drive=synoboot'
bios: ovmf
bootdisk: sata0
cores: 1
efidisk0: local-zfs:vm-102-disk-1,size=128K
ide2: none,media=cdrom
memory: 2000
name: 1-DSM
net0: e1000=0E:69:70:F5:F6:5A,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
ostype: l26
sata0: local-zfs:vm-102-disk-0,size=20G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=5493a726-0a20-4c4a-a6c6-53ab7062e8ab
sockets: 1
vmgenid: 56e9aba4-ba92-4c3a-80af-73c3a186f5e5

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19 minutes ago, Bar1 said:

agent: 1
args: -device 'piix3-usb-uhci,addr=0x18' -drive 'id=synoboot,file=/var/lib/vz/images/102/synoboot.img,if=none,format=raw' -device 'usb-storage,id=synoboot,drive=synoboot'
bios: ovmf
bootdisk: sata0
cores: 1
efidisk0: local-zfs:vm-102-disk-1,size=128K
ide2: none,media=cdrom
 memory: 2000
name: 1-DSM
net0: e1000=0E:69:70:F5:F6:5A,bridge=vmbr0 <- Change the MAC to match the ones from synoboot.img
 numa: 0
ostype: l26
sata0: local-zfs:vm-102-disk-0,size=20G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=5493a726-0a20-4c4a-a6c6-53ab7062e8ab
sockets: 1
vmgenid: 56e9aba4-ba92-4c3a-80af-73c3a186f5e5

 

Also, when you boot up, hang the pc to bios and check if the boot order is correct

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why do you think there should be new vmdk?

 

thats all you need

 

# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=6ccf51e5
parentCID=ffffffff
isNativeSnapshot="no"
createType="vmfs"

# Extent description
RW 102400 VMFS "synoboot.img" 0

# The Disk Data Base 
#DDB

ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"
ddb.deletable = "true"
ddb.encoding = "UTF-8"
ddb.longContentID = "7e24a756b77e33e24ac940cc6ccf51e5"
ddb.thinProvisioned = "1"
ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 9a ee da ca 33-df 5e 04 3f 80 55 f9 62"
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "10"

 

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Haha okay didnt know that and inside the vmdk do i need to change there something last time i did not change anything?

 

Yes using the latest 918 loader and choose the esxi boot option

HPE ML10 with the custom HP image loaded with all drivers

 

I guess i spotted the problem already

 

Networking

Host name

IP addresses

 

^^ its empty wich nic type you use ext 3 or e1000 ?

 

 

 

 

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I have successfully downgraded from DSM 6.2.1-23824 back to DSM 6.2-23739 Update 2.

Everything is working properly and no more volume crash..

Big thanks to Jun, 1.03b worked perfectly!

Also a big thanks to FOXBI for creating this awesome little tool 

 

 

DSM.jpg

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Wrt the ds918+ loader that Jun originally started the topic with, works perfectly so far in my system:

 

- HPE ML350 Gen9

- Two E5-2667 V3 processors  (Haswell)

- 72 gb total memory

- on board SATA with Ssd for boot

- LSI 3000 series HBA not in pass-through with seven 4TB SAS drives 

- ESXI6.7 u1

- VM set for 4 processors w/virtualization pass-through enabled, 8gb memory, boot on sata0:0, 35 gb VD on sata0:1, sas drives RDM physical on LSI SCSI Parallel installed as single volume raid 6 BTRFS. 

 

Installed latest DSM update. SAS drives appeare on disks 3-9. Everything works just like my real ds918+ except this is much more responsive and uses SAS drives. CPU-info shows 4 processors just as configured. After perusing the sources on github and noticing some code that appeared to restrict the kernel to using only two cores, the  one question is can anyone confirm that the kernel will actually use more than two cores? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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