manfriday Posted February 2, 2019 Share #1 Posted February 2, 2019 I inadvertently ended up with 2 working systems both running 6.2.1 (DS 918+) and both with the same serial number. I have searched but can only find info on changing serial numbers for v5 and earlier releases. Any help is appreciated. MF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 sbv3000 Posted February 2, 2019 Share #2 Posted February 2, 2019 Check the tutorial for setting up an xpe boot drive. you can edit the s/n in the grub file as you would the vid/pid. you should be able to edit the grub file on the existing boot drive and on the next reboot it will load with the new s/n. I've run a few xpe boxes on at the same time with the same s/n and never has a problem. however note that I always use 'made up' s/n's that bear no relation to a real syno one (except the string format) as I dont use any features that need a real s/n. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 manfriday Posted February 3, 2019 Author Share #3 Posted February 3, 2019 thanks for follow up Cheers MF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Polanskiman Posted February 17, 2019 Share #4 Posted February 17, 2019 Was your question answered to your satisfaction @manfriday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 unmesh Posted April 23, 2019 Share #5 Posted April 23, 2019 I came upon this thread when I accidentally reused the same serial number when I created a test VM on my ESXi server to migrate from 1.02b to 1.03b bootloader. Unlike sbv3000's experience, one or the other XPE VM's crash after a while when both are running and I need to do a controlled experiment to see if the serial number is the root cause. In any case, is there a quick way for me to change one of the serial numbers without going back to the original bootloader image file, finding and editing the grub.cfg and making the vmdk file? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Polanskiman Posted April 23, 2019 Share #6 Posted April 23, 2019 As stated in the root of this forum: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 unmesh Posted April 23, 2019 Share #7 Posted April 23, 2019 I'm guessing this is for me, so I will take this to General Questions ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Polanskiman Posted May 23, 2019 Share #8 Posted May 23, 2019 The question(s) in this topic have been answered and/or the topic author has resolved their issue. This topic is now closed. If you have other questions, please open a new topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I inadvertently ended up with 2 working systems both running 6.2.1 (DS 918+) and both with the same serial number. I have searched but can only find info on changing serial numbers for v5 and earlier releases. Any help is appreciated.
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