Onknight Posted January 28, 2021 Share #1 Posted January 28, 2021 Hi everyone new member here I'm possibly looking Adam stalling xpenology on a HP XW4600 Intel Core2Quad Q9300 CPU 4gb ram 640gb HD My Current Nas is too small it's 2 bay nas from Synology would like to add 4 X 2 TB Hard disks for 8 TB of space 5 any thing should be worried about ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-88 Posted January 28, 2021 Share #2 Posted January 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Onknight said: any thing should be worried about ? you might need mbr version of the loader with HP https://xpenology.com/forum/forum/98-member-tweaked-loaders/ try loader 1.03b and dsm 6.2.3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onknight Posted January 28, 2021 Author Share #3 Posted January 28, 2021 I see this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onknight Posted January 28, 2021 Author Share #4 Posted January 28, 2021 could also buy this instead CPU: Intel E6420 RAM: 3GB @ 800 Mhz MOTHERBOARD: Asus P5B-V POWER SUPPLY: 350W STORAGE: 300GB Hdd I'm look to do this on the cheep and then go buy the harddisk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-88 Posted January 28, 2021 Share #5 Posted January 28, 2021 3 hours ago, Onknight said: I see this one yes and the solution is also there, look in bios to set sata to ahci (ide or raid are wrong) - if there is such switch, you never know with HP as they customize the bios heavily 2 hours ago, Onknight said: could also buy this instead CPU: Intel E6420 RAM: 3GB @ 800 Mhz MOTHERBOARD: Asus P5B-V its not going to be much better, you would not need mbr loader and the switch for sata ahci might be present and easier to find but you would still be bound to 3615/3617 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onknight Posted January 28, 2021 Author Share #6 Posted January 28, 2021 (edited) 31 minutes ago, IG-88 said: yes and the solution is also there, look in bios to set sata to ahci (ide or raid are wrong) - if there is such switch, you never know with HP as they customize the bios heavily its not going to be much better, you would not need mbr loader and the switch for sata ahci might be present and easier to find but you would still be bound to 3615/3617 Decided to go with Intel6420 System what do I need to get it going Can you give me steps or Links to area of the site I can Read to get me up to speed I found thus youtube vid Thanks IG88 Edited January 29, 2021 by Onknight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-88 Posted January 29, 2021 Share #7 Posted January 29, 2021 18 minutes ago, Onknight said: Can you give me steps or Links to area of the site I can Read to get me up to speed https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/13333-tutorialreference-6x-loaders-and-platforms/ 1.03b 3617 dsm 6.2.3 would be the one to choose if there are any problems you can try one generation back loader 1.02b with dsm 6.1 https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/7973-tutorial-installmigrate-dsm-52-to-61x-juns-loader/ for dsm 6.2.3 just use loader 1.03b instead, all the steps are the same there are some minor problems editing the loader with windows 10 https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/29872-tutorial-mount-boot-stick-partitions-in-windows-edit-grubcfg-add-extralzma/ also the faq is good to read for some basics (like that the loader is usb and the system (dsm itself) is raid1 over all disks https://xpenology.com/forum/forum/83-faq-start-here/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onknight Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share #8 Posted January 30, 2021 I got it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onknight Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share #9 Posted January 30, 2021 On 1/28/2021 at 7:09 PM, IG-88 said: https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/13333-tutorialreference-6x-loaders-and-platforms/ 1.03b 3617 dsm 6.2.3 would be the one to choose if there are any problems you can try one generation back loader 1.02b with dsm 6.1 https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/7973-tutorial-installmigrate-dsm-52-to-61x-juns-loader/ for dsm 6.2.3 just use loader 1.03b instead, all the steps are the same there are some minor problems editing the loader with windows 10 https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/29872-tutorial-mount-boot-stick-partitions-in-windows-edit-grubcfg-add-extralzma/ also the faq is good to read for some basics (like that the loader is usb and the system (dsm itself) is raid1 over all disks https://xpenology.com/forum/forum/83-faq-start-here/ Thanks for your help I have XPEnoboot_DS3615xs_5.2-5565.1 Running with DSM_DS3615xs_5565.pat It tells me there upgrade DSM-6.0-8754 do I ignore it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-88 Posted January 30, 2021 Share #10 Posted January 30, 2021 5 hours ago, Onknight said: I have XPEnoboot_DS3615xs_5.2-5565.1 Running with DSM_DS3615xs_5565.pat It tells me there upgrade DSM-6.0-8754 do I ignore it ? if you dont want to create a new loader for 6.0 you would need to ignore that my intention would have been to steer you at least to loader 1.02b with dsm 6.1 (that one does uefi and csm/legacy, 1.03b for dsm 6.2.3 does only csm/legacy bios and some people have problems to get that working as it need certain bios settings and also booting from the non uefi usb boot device) so if you just started and dont have data an your nas i would suggest you give loader 1.03b a try as this dsm version get's (security) updates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onknight Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share #11 Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) On 1/28/2021 at 7:09 PM, IG-88 said: https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/13333-tutorialreference-6x-loaders-and-platforms/ 1.03b 3617 dsm 6.2.3 would be the one to choose if there are any problems you can try one generation back loader 1.02b with dsm 6.1 https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/7973-tutorial-installmigrate-dsm-52-to-61x-juns-loader/ for dsm 6.2.3 just use loader 1.03b instead, all the steps are the same there are some minor problems editing the loader with windows 10 https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/29872-tutorial-mount-boot-stick-partitions-in-windows-edit-grubcfg-add-extralzma/ also the faq is good to read for some basics (like that the loader is usb and the system (dsm itself) is raid1 over all disks https://xpenology.com/forum/forum/83-faq-start-here/ 5 hours ago, IG-88 said: if you dont want to create a new loader for 6.0 you would need to ignore that my intention would have been to steer you at least to loader 1.02b with dsm 6.1 (that one does uefi and csm/legacy, 1.03b for dsm 6.2.3 does only csm/legacy bios and some people have problems to get that working as it need certain bios settings and also booting from the non uefi usb boot device) so if you just started and dont have data an your nas i would suggest you give loader 1.03b a try as this dsm version get's (security) updates There really not alot data on it I am using as Test Bench anyways to learn how to use docker I still need to buy 3 3TB hard Desk later this year Tried install 103b and it gets suck CPU: Intel E6420 RAM: 7GB @ 800 Mhz MOTHERBOARD: Asus P5B-V POWER SUPPLY: 350W STORAGE: 300GB Hdd + 500GB Drive Edited January 30, 2021 by Onknight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onknight Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share #12 Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) For now I went back to DSM_DS3615xs_5565.pat Cause it working with this bootloader the others don't they get stuck XPEnoboot_DS3615xs_5.2-5565.1https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pGtfWx0vTtaWeDY8-JsBEEf6-JzNgEdk/view?usp=sharing Edited January 30, 2021 by Onknight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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