Cabreo Posted October 5, 2022 Share #1 Posted October 5, 2022 Hello everybody, I need some information for a behavior that I cannot understand. Until now I've created several XPENOLOGY, 3 or 4 with BOOTLOADER 5, 3 with DSM 6.2 and now I have created an XPENOLOGY with this bootloader: DS3615xs 6.1 Jun's Mod V1.02b.img and DSM is DSM_DS3615xs_15284.pat. The bootloader has been modified to read the nvidia chipset (extra3615_v4.8.zip added). The NAS works perfectly. My boot key broke and then I took an IDENTICAL pendrive (obviously same pid / vid) on which I wrote my boot image of which I had backup. The NAS did not start and I had to search for it with find.synology.com, connect and reset it. For curiosity, I took another pair of pendrives, also identical, I wrote them both with the boot image (obviously I changed the pid / vid on this new pair). I entered the first one and here too the nas has not started. I thought it was because the pendrive is different ... I reset it (again via find.synology.com) and then shut down. I turned it back on and everything works perfectly. At this point I turned off and inserted the second pendrive (of the second pair, IDENTICAL to the one just removed) and the NAS did not start I should have restored it BUT I didn't. I put the first one back and the nas started perfectly. Is anything written to the boot stick by the DSM installation? The usb boot pendrive can be burned? Thx to you all, Cabreo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polanskiman Posted October 5, 2022 Share #2 Posted October 5, 2022 Thread has been moved to the appropriate forum: General Installation Questions/Discussions (non-hardware specific) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyride Posted October 5, 2022 Share #3 Posted October 5, 2022 The bootloader is modified by DSM each time there is an update (or initial installation). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabreo Posted October 5, 2022 Author Share #4 Posted October 5, 2022 54 minutes ago, flyride said: The bootloader is modified by DSM each time there is an update (or initial installation). Thx flyride, so I've to backup my pendrive AFTER DSM full installation.... 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyride Posted October 5, 2022 Share #5 Posted October 5, 2022 If you want to, but probably not necessary. As you can see you can recover from a fresh bootloader in a matter of minutes. There is no unique configuration data stored on the bootloader, just corresponding code associated with DSM itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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