jgaltone Posted January 17, 2016 #1 Posted January 17, 2016 I am new to xpenology and I am trying to get my first install up and running on a Dell R710 server. I am attempting to use this version: XPEnoboot_DS3615xs_5.2-5644.4.img I was able to get the DSM up and running inside of Virtual Box (using the ISO file) and I successfully created a volume that I could access from computers on our LAN but I could not write any data to it. It acted like it was writing files to the volume (I could see transfer rates) but it never actually copied a file that was readable and it kept stopping as it was trying to write to the volume. I was also unable install any application packages. So I decided to bypass virtualization and boot directly to a flash drive but my computer keeps telling me that my flash drive is not a valid boot device. I have attempted to create a bootable flash drive from both a Mac and Windows but neither of them worked as a valid boot. I have watched several YouTube videos that explained how to install xpenology. None of them mentioned the step of editing the syslinux.cfg file as explained here: http://xpenology.me/how-to-update-boot-loader/ Can someone please explain if the editing of the syslinux.cfg is required to get the DSM to work properly? Any help with making a bootable flash drive would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
MrTPN Posted January 17, 2016 #2 Posted January 17, 2016 Hey jgaltone! I was equally as confused when i tried firing up my first bare-metal version of Xpenology. In short, my understanding is you only need to go in editing the syslinux.cfg if you are doing an upgrade. When building my pen drive, i ignored that step and it booted, installed and ran just fine! I could be totally wrong, i am equally as new to this as you....but thought i would share my findings so far Hope that helps! MrTPN
antihrist2002 Posted January 17, 2016 #3 Posted January 17, 2016 jgaltone, your server is very powerful. I think it will be better to use ESXi on it. What exactly hardware you have in server? Main parts to start xpenology bare metal is network card and SAS/SATA controller.
jgaltone Posted January 17, 2016 Author #4 Posted January 17, 2016 Hardware: Dual Xeon X5560 2.8GHZ Quad Core Processors32GB RAMDell Perc 6/i LSI Raid Controller4 Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709c Gigabit Ethernet NIC
polanskiman Posted January 17, 2016 #5 Posted January 17, 2016 Strange. Your Bios is configured properly to boot from a usb key? Modification of the syslinux.cfg file is normally only needed to change the serial and mac addresses but which will not prevent booting DSM if not edited. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
jgaltone Posted January 17, 2016 Author #6 Posted January 17, 2016 Strange. Your Bios is configured properly to boot from a usb key? Yes.
antihrist2002 Posted January 17, 2016 #9 Posted January 17, 2016 Can you record boot time process on video and post it to us?
antihrist2002 Posted January 17, 2016 #10 Posted January 17, 2016 DSM will not use all power of your server. Your raid card working in raid or HBA mode?
polanskiman Posted January 17, 2016 #12 Posted January 17, 2016 As a test I would recommend trying to burn a ubuntu live cd on your flash drive and see if it boots. If not then it's either your hardware or a configuration problem within your bios. Could also be that the xpenoboot file got corrupted somehow. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
antihrist2002 Posted January 17, 2016 #13 Posted January 17, 2016 I think, that no one can use 2U server at home. So i reminds you, that you can't use Xpenology for your business. It's not a free software Also, i'm not sure, your RAID controller is not supported by xpenology. Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709c in HCL list. I found that your server supports Dell iDRAC. Can you try boot xpenology image via iDRAC? What software you used to write image to usb-drive?
shrabok Posted January 17, 2016 #14 Posted January 17, 2016 Not sure if this is helpful or not, but when I did my build yesterday, I noticed my bios had selected the USB stick, but it had "Partition 1" and I had to switch the bios to point at the USB stick "without partition 1" in the name.
jgaltone Posted January 17, 2016 Author #15 Posted January 17, 2016 As a test I would recommend trying to burn a ubuntu live cd on your flash drive and see if it boots. If not then it's either your hardware or a configuration problem within your bios. Could also be that the xpenoboot file got corrupted somehow. I can boot to a flash drive running other OS's without any issues (Linux Mint, ESXi, etc.).
sbv3000 Posted January 17, 2016 #16 Posted January 17, 2016 Check that you are not trying to boot uefi mode. You should boot legacy mode with xpe Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
jgaltone Posted January 17, 2016 Author #17 Posted January 17, 2016 Also, i'm not sure, your RAID controller is not supported by xpenology. Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709c in HCL list. I found that your server supports Dell iDRAC. Can you try boot xpenology image via iDRAC? What software you used to write image to usb-drive? I am also not sure if my raid controller is supported. I was told in this thread (Can I use a Dell R710 PowerEdge server to run XPEnology?) that it was an LSI controller and that it should work. I have not tried iDRAC but I will give it a try. I am just trying to test EXPEnology running on vSphere ESXi. I tried several different methods of making the Xpenology boot drive. I originally used Win32 Disk Imager. I also tried unetbootin and tried to manually make one via terminal commands. I also tried two different version of Xpenology (5.1-5055.1.img, 5.2-5644.4.img).
brantje Posted January 17, 2016 #18 Posted January 17, 2016 What file system does the USB has after you flashed the bootloader?
jgaltone Posted January 17, 2016 Author #19 Posted January 17, 2016 Check that you are not trying to boot uefi mode. You should boot legacy mode with xpe Thanks very much sbv3000. I assume you meant booting to "PXE" mode. This resolved the problem.
polanskiman Posted January 18, 2016 #20 Posted January 18, 2016 Was initially going to say the same thing then I thought this would have been the 1st thing you tried. Assumptions...mother of..! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
jgaltone Posted January 18, 2016 Author #21 Posted January 18, 2016 Was initially going to say the same thing then I thought this would have been the 1st thing you tried. Assumptions...mother of..! Being primarily a Mac user I had no experience with this boot mode.
polanskiman Posted January 18, 2016 #22 Posted January 18, 2016 Good to know your problem is solved. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
sbv3000 Posted January 18, 2016 #23 Posted January 18, 2016 i dont know what I meant , but if you helped fix it great !
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