vicrod74 Posted December 27, 2017 Share #1 Posted December 27, 2017 (edited) Hello to all, I just migrated my HP EX495 to DSM 6.1.4 following Jun's loader. I was wondering how to enable the file directory to see the USB boot drive. I did it once somewhere, but I'm not sure if the new DSM allow you browse the USB Boot drive anymore. Thanks for any help! Edited December 27, 2017 by vicrod74 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambit820 Posted February 9, 2018 Share #2 Posted February 9, 2018 please tell me how you did this, i have been searching for hours on how to do this and i cant find ANYTHING. i have a stock EX495 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polanskiman Posted February 9, 2018 Share #3 Posted February 9, 2018 As far as I can tell you cannot. I am not even sure why you would want to do that anyways. The USB boot drive is a boot drive as its name suggests. Fiddling with it during DSM operation might not be the best thing to do although the USB is not actively being used while DSM is running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-88 Posted February 9, 2018 Share #4 Posted February 9, 2018 hi, not shure it its helpfull but you can find the flashdrive as /dev/synoboot and its 3 partitions as /dev/synoboot1, /dev/synoboot2, /dev/synoboot3 you can have a look with fdisk (do not write anything) like "fdisk /dev/synoboot" and then pressing "p" for print partition table to screen and "q" for quit it has to be somewhere as it has to be written/updated when installing dsm updates (new kernel) but there is a good reason why its not shown in the gui, in our case the its connected to a normal usb port and if something goes wrong you can easily renew it, in original synology boxes that one is a small board with a (custom?) connector to the systemboard or might even be soldered to the board, messing around with the basic boot stuff can brick the system (at least for a normal user it will be bricked) btw. older version of xpenology like 5.0 where showing it under external devices as those xpenology where not so "close" to the original, jun's loader trys to mimic a original box as much as possible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polanskiman Posted February 9, 2018 Share #5 Posted February 9, 2018 Yes but that will not give you the possibility to browse the content of the partitons as asked by the OP. Thus my previous answer. fdisk merely shows you the partition layout of the drive and for untrained people how to screw those partition for good. I highly discourage accessing the boot drive this way. You could easily mess it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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