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Debian Squeeze/Wheezy on Ultra 2?
Is there a way to get rid of all the netgear stuff and just install vanilla Debian on the Ultra 2? I connected a serial adapter and I'm able to fiddle with the BIOS and select a USB stick as the st...
Thanks, I think I confirmed this by toggling the internal stick's bootable flag and running into a brick wall.
I also toyed with bootstrapping / chain booting, but no luck so far. I don't know if the Ultra 2 has a thing to show BIOS output, but even if it did I wouldn't have the hardware to connect it up. I did an installation over SSH and set everything up. The only thing I haven't managed yet is to chain boot BIOS --> USB drive --> hadr drive. Oh, and obviously LED control would be nice (for STEALTH MODE, all true tinkerers need this!). Anyone managed a chain boot who can share their syslinux.cfg? At this point I feel like I want to mindlessly copy-paste. ;)
For the record: my Ultra 2 is running quietly, noticeably faster than on RAIDiator, and with more features I need and fewer features I never used. I bought my ReadyNAS in 2012 so I got the 1.5 GHz Atom. Good to see that a modern x64 OS does so much good! "She" is running Arch Linux (bit of a Debian-fobia I'm afraid) and I really don't want to go back anytime soon. Now all that remains is to get the thing to chain boot... :-D
I also toyed with bootstrapping / chain booting, but no luck so far. I don't know if the Ultra 2 has a thing to show BIOS output, but even if it did I wouldn't have the hardware to connect it up. I did an installation over SSH and set everything up. The only thing I haven't managed yet is to chain boot BIOS --> USB drive --> hadr drive. Oh, and obviously LED control would be nice (for STEALTH MODE, all true tinkerers need this!). Anyone managed a chain boot who can share their syslinux.cfg? At this point I feel like I want to mindlessly copy-paste. ;)
For the record: my Ultra 2 is running quietly, noticeably faster than on RAIDiator, and with more features I need and fewer features I never used. I bought my ReadyNAS in 2012 so I got the 1.5 GHz Atom. Good to see that a modern x64 OS does so much good! "She" is running Arch Linux (bit of a Debian-fobia I'm afraid) and I really don't want to go back anytime soon. Now all that remains is to get the thing to chain boot... :-D
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