shabba007 Posted September 16, 2013 Share #1 Posted September 16, 2013 Hi my QNAP has let down too many times, so I going to build a new NAS. Have a spare PC and three spare hardrives. 2 x 1Tb and 1 x 250Gb. Wondering if its possible to boot from the 250Gb disk rather than USB stick ? That would then leave with the 2 x 1Tb for storage. thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockon Posted September 17, 2013 Share #2 Posted September 17, 2013 Yes, you can do that, it will work, just declare that SATA drive as 1st bootable device. IMHO, I would stay with USB flash for boot, and use that 250GB as system drive for storing apps/configuration. 2x1TB would be added later, after you're done with DSM installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shabba007 Posted September 17, 2013 Author Share #3 Posted September 17, 2013 thanks I'll give it a whirl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shabba007 Posted September 19, 2013 Author Share #4 Posted September 19, 2013 Anyone know how to get it boot from the hard disk rather than USB ? Problem I have is that my motherboard will only let me boot from the USB if I manually select it during post by pressing 'F12'. I've tried every setting in the BIOS several times, but cannot get the USB to boot without manual intervention. Seams daft to waste money on a new motherboard, so I'm trying to figure out how I can get the image transfered from the USB stick on to a small hard drive. Or write the image to a small hard drive before the install, that possible ? The software I used from one of the links which creates the USB image, only allows you to select a removable device, not a hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hussain Posted September 19, 2013 Share #5 Posted September 19, 2013 you can use plop boot manager to do that... after installing XPEnology, you install plop manager on the hard disk.... your system should boot to plop and then boot to usb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPEH Posted September 19, 2013 Share #6 Posted September 19, 2013 Anyone know how to get it boot from the hard disk rather than USB ? Problem I have is that my motherboard will only let me boot from the USB if I manually select it during post by pressing 'F12'. I've tried every setting in the BIOS several times, but cannot get the USB to boot without manual intervention. Seams daft to waste money on a new motherboard, so I'm trying to figure out how I can get the image transfered from the USB stick on to a small hard drive. Or write the image to a small hard drive before the install, that possible ? The software I used from one of the links which creates the USB image, only allows you to select a removable device, not a hard drive. Booting from any Linux life CD/USB and using "dd" command will transfer synoboot image to any hard drive, effectively making it 200MB only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gzartman Posted October 22, 2013 Share #7 Posted October 22, 2013 I'm curious is any of you have gotten plob boot manager to boot synology from USB? I am able to boot the usb stick manually and I've installed plop on my primary HD MBR. Plop fires up just find on bootup. However, I can't get plop to boot into the usb stick. It starts booting synology, then hangs. Maybe it's something about the usb stick and plop? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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