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Successful Unraid installation on RN312
With Netgear dropping the ReadyNas line and lack of any support from third party apps, I was recently looking at replacements and most likely going to buy a Synology Nas. After seeing an LTT vide...
reaves42 wrote:
I needed the HDMI port for this as you need to boot from a USB. If your device can boot from a USB stick UEFI if inserted, you don't need it.
Though you also need the HDMI port to change the BIOS settings.
I believe some readynas units will boot from the front USB if inserted. This is most likely a safeguard for headless units.
Your mileage may vary.
Your mileage may vary.
Early 516 (and I believe 316) BIOS will not do that, you have to use the front button (which can be tricky) to tell it to do so. But my understanding is that even native OS6 units that will boot that way are looking for something specific (to ID it as a recovery USB). Legacy units are a lot simpler -- I've booted DOS and Linux from USB on them.
Any attempt to do the same with an ARM based unit would have a lot more hoops to jump through.
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