ksukat Posted November 18, 2017 Share #1 Posted November 18, 2017 Greetings, Was watching a youtube video "XPEnology -DSM 6.1 (bare metal) tutorial. I downloaded 6.0.2 loader from the xpenology forum (mega). downloaded the synoboot.img. Used rufus to make the bootable usb drive. Took it to my machine (an old desktop) and booted from the usb drive. It displayed on the screen the normal messages, then booting from kernel where it hung. I am assuming there is an issue with my hardware. It is an AMD Phenom II x2 545 on a GigaByte GA-M68MT-D3 motherboard. Am I out of luck with this hardware, or is there a different loader that I need? thanks for any assistance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 hotshots Posted November 19, 2017 Share #2 Posted November 19, 2017 Hy, first you should search on the Gigabyte page what storage controller and what Lan controller your motherboard uses. Then search the forum if these controllers are supported. Disable in the Bios anything not needed... Good luck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sbv3000 Posted November 19, 2017 Share #3 Posted November 19, 2017 The booting from Kernel message and no further output is normal. What happened when you tried to find the system with Synology Assistant? The on-board realtek 8211 nic should work ok, but you can try the extended extra.lzma as in the tutorial which has additional/newer drivers. If you have a spare Intel nic try that in one of the expansion ports. The mobo also has a serial port so you can connect that and check the boot load process with a Putty connection You could also try the older 5.2 loader, has more drivers and compatibility with older mobos and will get you started and you can do more diagnostics of your hardware in linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 omygitworks Posted November 19, 2017 Share #4 Posted November 19, 2017 I may be misreading this post but as sbv3000 says hanging on the kernel is normal on the servers monitor.I'm not sure if you then went to a second computer on your internal(local) net and went to find.synology.com and let that site look for you xpenology server and install the DMS its worth bearing in mind to use only the juns loaders which are suitable for amd. not all are.I hope this is of some use Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 randomguy210 Posted December 17, 2017 Share #5 Posted December 17, 2017 I can boot from a live ubuntu distro. Is there a command i can type that would print out all the drivers and hardware specs so that i can post it here and confirm with everyone its supported? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Polanskiman Posted December 18, 2017 Share #6 Posted December 18, 2017 11 hours ago, randomguy210 said: I can boot from a live ubuntu distro. Is there a command i can type that would print out all the drivers and hardware specs so that i can post it here and confirm with everyone its supported? Topic hijacking is highly discouraged. You are welcome to create your own question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ksukat
Greetings,
Was watching a youtube video "XPEnology -DSM 6.1 (bare metal) tutorial.
I downloaded 6.0.2 loader from the xpenology forum (mega). downloaded the synoboot.img. Used rufus
to make the bootable usb drive. Took it to my machine (an old desktop) and booted from the usb drive.
It displayed on the screen the normal messages, then booting from kernel where it hung. I am assuming there is
an issue with my hardware. It is an AMD Phenom II x2 545 on a GigaByte GA-M68MT-D3 motherboard.
Am I out of luck with this hardware, or is there a different loader that I need?
thanks for any assistance.
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