Hook up HDMI + keyboard, reboot. Press `F2` or `Del` to enter BIOS, change boot device to your USB install stick. Install like normal (dont put boot on a lvm partition, that won’t boot). Install grub to MBR on one of your drives and reboot. Disable “Smart FAN” in BIOS to be able to manually…(Continue Reading)
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Manually expanding QNAP storage pool
If you like me just pulled drives from your QNAP when expanding instead of going through the “expand, pull one drive, wait for resync, pull another blabla” as the manual states, you can manually expand it by: replace /dev/md0 with your md device from cat /proc/mdstat mdadm –grow /dev/md0 –size=max and then: pvdisplay, grab the…(Continue Reading)