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How do we change the mac address or serial number in this release?

 

I have 1 machine up and running HP EX490

 

Shows up as

 

MAC1 = 00223208d63c

Serial B3J4N00310

 

Trying to get a second box up and running

using the edit grub.conf trick to try and set a serial number and mac address has no effect

 

at boot this version shows

 

Booting 'SYNOLOGY_2'

root (hd0,1)

Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

vendor /vendor show

MAC1: 00223208d63c

MAC2: 00223208d63d

MAC3: 00223208d63e

MAC4: 00223208d63f

Serial: B3J4N00310

Custom Serial: Empty or Invalid checksum

kernel /xImage root=/dev/md0 ihd_num-5 netif_num=4 syno_hw_version=DS3612xs mac1=00113205V7U8 sn=B7J4N00000

[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3400, size=0x2e63e0]

initrd /rd.gz

 

Which seems quite different to other versions

 

any ideas?

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Open telnet session and try this one:

 

ifconfig eth0 hw ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff

 

(eth0 should be your main NIC, to be sure before commiting above command, enter ifconfig to list enumerated settings)

change aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff with whatever you have on real NIC.

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Hi,

 

I want to have a test Syno box next to my live one.

Downloaded all files, but i am unable to find SynoBoot_3612xs_4.2b.vdi

 

Does anyone have a location where i can download it?

 

Thnx in advance

Hi, you can use those files to install directly in a VM created adhoc

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I changed the MAC using the method from post 4 of this thread:

 

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6

 

Just as a note for others

 

This way of changing mac address doesn't work for this version of Xpenology (hex edit fails)

 

The way I found for this version was to comment out the "vendor" and chksum" sections and change default to 2

 

 

eg

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#serial --unit=0 --speed=115200

#terminal serial

default 2

timeout 3

hiddenmenu

fallback 0

 

title SYNOLOGY_1

root (hd0,0)

kernel /zImage root=/dev/md0 ihd_num=5 netif_num=4 syno_hw_version=DS3612xs

initrd /rd.gz

 

title SYNOLOGY_2

root (hd0,1)

# cksum /grub_cksum.syno

# vender /vender show

# hw_model

kernel /zImage root=/dev/md0 ihd_num=5 netif_num=4 syno_hw_version=DS3612xs mac1=0024811591E2 sn=B3J4N00311

initrd /rd.gz

=============

 

Hope it helps others

 

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converting the image to VMware disk doesn't work in ESX5. my VM hang at GRUB, error 22.

 

i had the same problem i had to use StarWindConverter and select "Vmware Pre-allocated image" use virtual disk type "IDE"

that should be hard drive 1 then add another hard drive IDE on 0:1 mines was 10GB.

 

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Has anyone gotten there LSI 9211-8i to work on this build.

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I changed the MAC using the method from post 4 of this thread:

 

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6

 

Just as a note for others

 

This way of changing mac address doesn't work for this version of Xpenology (hex edit fails)

 

The way I found for this version was to comment out the "vendor" and chksum" sections and change default to 2

 

 

eg

================

 

#serial --unit=0 --speed=115200

#terminal serial

default 2

timeout 3

hiddenmenu

fallback 0

 

title SYNOLOGY_1

root (hd0,0)

kernel /zImage root=/dev/md0 ihd_num=5 netif_num=4 syno_hw_version=DS3612xs

initrd /rd.gz

 

title SYNOLOGY_2

root (hd0,1)

# cksum /grub_cksum.syno

# vender /vender show

# hw_model

kernel /zImage root=/dev/md0 ihd_num=5 netif_num=4 syno_hw_version=DS3612xs mac1=0024811591E2 sn=B3J4N00311

initrd /rd.gz

=============

 

Hope it helps others

 

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Interesting. I had all that config change (apart from the "default 2" bit and it didn't work. The hex edit did. I did exit the file on my PC and then copy it back rather than doing an in-place edit. Wonder if that made any difference?

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Hi everyone,

 

If anybody can help me here please. Everything seems to be working ok on an HP Proliant ML 110 G6 and on an old IBM eServer xSeries 206, but almost every time I reboot or shutdown the system my BIOS gets reset to default settings.

 

If anybody has experienced this please let me know if there is a solution to this problem because it changes the drive sequence and it cannot boot unless I change it back.

 

 

Thank you

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Everything seems to be working ok on an HP Proliant ML 110 G6 and on an old IBM eServer xSeries 206, but almost every time I reboot or shutdown the system my BIOS gets reset to default settings.

 

If anybody has experienced this please let me know if there is a solution to this problem because it changes the drive sequence and it cannot boot unless I change it back.

 

The same happens on Proliant N40L. I wanted to use onboard SATA ports 5 and 6 in AHCI mode rather than IDE, but this setting was lost with each reboot. I assume that DSM just forces BIOS to load default settings.

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That's interesting, I thought I was going mad.

 

Hp DC7900 does the reset bios thing as well, I thought the CMOS battery had died so replaced it..... Reset CMOS ....

Problem still persis.

 

The my HP EX490 doesn't seem to have this problem

 

What is this OS doing at shutdown to cause this reset?

 

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More digging, seems to be at boot up, it tries to write the time to the bios ( poss gets network time then writes it to bios ) to facilitate the sleep wake functions later on.

 

Maybe we can disable this?

 

Seems there is some RTC control functions available here

http://smallhacks.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/working-with-synology-hardware-devsynobios-and-devttys1/

 

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After reading what everyone here has experienced with the BIOS Reset problem. I have done some testing on my own, what I have noticed is you can solve the problem with the systems that do change the drive sequence when the BIOS resets by doing the following.

 

1. copy the DS3612xs_4.2-3211_x64_Microserver-20130612.img to a some size sata hard drive with HDDRawCopy1.02Portable.exe

2. set the correct mac address to the vender file

3. connect this hard drive to sata port 0 on your motherboard so even if the BIOS resets this drive will be the first drive so your system will boot normally

 

 

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Besides all this I have also verified but I am not sure if this is always true but, when I install this on a system with an Intel motherboard the BIOS problem does not exist.

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Hmmmm

 

Well this BIOS problem becomes quite severe on an Intel Server Board S5000VSA

 

Not sure what the heck its doing (or trying to do) to the bios, but on this board it causes big headaches

 

Board has 6 x SATA ports

 

So I connected all 6 ports to 5 x 1TB drives + 1 x 2TB Drive

 

Updated to latest BIOS

Go into bios and change SATA mode from legacy to ACHI

System recognises all 6 drives fine

 

boot into Xpenology (This thread version)

 

Xpenology finds only 5 drives at install.........no problem I thought maybe didn't connect one drive properly

 

Pull usb stick and do the installation....

Reboot

 

System can't boot up.... stalls at detecting HDD's

 

Try to get into BIOS, but no deal......

Only way to get back in is to jumper CMOS reset

 

Clock is reset to approx 10hrs early... but date is fine

 

ok, so reconfigure everything once again ACHI etc...

 

Reboot

 

but still doesn't recognise any drives......

 

Reflash BIOS firmware to an older one.... (tried 3 different ones) and it's up and going again

But now only 5 drives recognised

Didnt work at all with a Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.12 installed (weird as it was fine before)

 

ok so update firmware back to latest.... still doesn't like the Seagate drive....

 

So swap that out for a WD Raptor 300g

 

System once again finds all 6 drives :roll: (ok maybe seagate drive died? I think)

 

Back into BIOS reconfigure everything once again to double check

 

This time set a BIOS password, in case that might stop Xpenology changing BIOS around

 

Boot DOS USB disk and fdisk all drives removing any partitions

 

OK pop in Xpenology USB and do the install once more........

But we are back to only finding 5 drives..... but continue on and install

 

At reboot, system is once again unable to boot... stalls at detecting HDD's

 

only way back in again it to reset CMOS

 

What the ?

 

Something seriously screwy going on with what it's doing to the BIOS.... even with a BIOS password set ?

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viewtopic.php?f=2&t=960

 

I opened a thread on it a bit ago and it seems to be a problem with using a "roll your own" server. The motherboards/BIOS is not the same and it causes issues when it attempts to write back to the BIOS configuration. If I put the system to sleep or shutdown it resets the bios, while if I just turn it off..everything is fine. It would seem to me that the system on close is setting a value in the configuration. One that is specific to the platforms that synology uses.

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