Great - looking forward to it 
Is it possible to install Midnight Commander on MyCloud EX2 Ultra?
Hello everybody 
I am new to this topic and tried to read more than 1300 comments so far …
I have a WD Mycloud Gen 1 and want to install DSM on it. In the past i experiment with Linux with my raspberry pi.
I tried to install DSM, but there is no how to guid or something like that. In the how to install stands i should look in the file > connect via telnet. But there is no such file?! Please help me. i just need a seamless installation guide.
Thank you all
telnet is a tool that used to be present on all windows installations - that changed with 7 or 8, not sure.
You can either add it via add/remove programs| windows components or use an alternative tool like putty which also provides telnet functionality.
Then follow the steps in “Connect to WDMC via Telnet and run this commands:” …
Good luck:
Use PuTTY instead. Its better.
Hey Guys!
I was struggeling the last few day to get a clean Debian installation up and running on my WDMC EX2 Ultra 2 Bay NAS.
I tried to stick as close as possible to the information found here
The files I’ve used
- uImage: WDMyCloud-Ex2-Ultra/Debian/uImage-4.8.6_ex2u.bin
- Initrd: WDMyCloud-Mirror-Gen2/Debian/Dev/uRamdisk
- root fs: WDMyCloud-Ex2-Ultra/Debian/MCMgen2-jessie-basic-armhf.tar.xz
What I’ve done so far
1. attached the hdd to my Linux machine and created the raid
parted --script /dev/sda "mklabel gpt \
mklabel gpt \
mkpart primary 0% 512MB \
mkpart primary 512MB 4096MB \
mkpart primary 4096MB 100% \
set 1 raid on \
set 2 raid on \
set 3 raid on"
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --metadata=0.9 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 missing
mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --metadata=0.9 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda2 missing
mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level=1 --metadata=0.9 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda3 missing
2. installed the rootfs
mount /dev/md1 /mnt/root
wget ...WDMyCloud-Ex2-Ultra/Debian/MCMgen2-jessie-basic-armhf.tar.xz -O - | tar xvJf -
3. connected via UART and booted from USB
usb reset; fatload usb 0:1 1200000 uImage-4.8.6_ex2u.bin; fatload usb 0:1 2000000 uRamdisk;
bootm 0x1200000 0x2000000
Result
the NAS stops booting with the message: # /dev/md1 not exist!
you can find my full bootlog here.
Has anyone successfully installed Debian on the WDMC EX2 Ultra yet?
Can you give ma a hint what i missed out or did wrong?
Thanks in advance
Marcel
I think kernel dont have “md” module (Dont support software raid).
Try to use only one HDD w/o raid (/dev/sda[1,2,3])
Note: Ramdisk can boot to busybox with all needed for reformat (prepare) HDD (parted, mdadm, wget, etc…)
Hello mr. Fox!
Thank you very much for the fast reply!
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --metadata=0.9 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 missing
works from busybox. so i thought the kernel supportts it? or dos booting from an array require additional kernel featuers?
i want set up a raid1 mirror.
Do i need to recompile my own kernel and recreate a ram disk?
Has someone done this previously?
Is it possible to install the os to the nand?
Thanks, thats how i do it now, didn’t realize it earlier…
update
found this guide here: https://themm.net/public/ex2u/start
going to try that tomorow…
Yeah, sorry, my fault. Kernel is same, so md-module exist and work.
There another problem: Sometime (idk why) md0 transfer to md127 (md1 → md126, md2 → md125, etc…)
Reboot and check (mdadm -As && cat /proc/mdstat)
/ # mdadm -As && cat /proc/mdstat
mdadm: No arrays found in config file
this method worked like a charm, install OMV faild due to systemd requirements…
later i tried to use docker with self compiled Kernel but it did not boot…
Read “REQUIREMENTS” section. Need recompile kernel with these options for support Systemd.
Also you can build 3.10.70+ kernel from official Marvell GIT repository (Use Config and dts file from Mirror Gen2 + replace 0x2000000 (512MB) to 0x4000000 (1GB) in “Ram” section of dts)
thanks for your help, but i wasted enough time on this ■■■■ now…giving it up now.
i am using a self build orangPi NAS (armbian) as private server, this is working perfectly stable for months with a total HW cost of around 30€ (wo. HDDs)!
i revert the original firmware and try to sell off this rubbish on ebay 
There are some interesting repositories on github according DL2100 support:
Sorry for the double post -
@Fox_exe
Was there any really stable release that would be ready for “productive” use or should I rather fall back to WD?
Need some kind of solution in place asap 
Hi !
Please can you explain clearly how to proced step by step.
I thing It will interrese a lot af beginner as me…
For exemple, you write : “Easy to install: Just upload my “special” firmware.”…Thank for that but where to find exactely your special firmware…?
Can you give the direct link…
The best : Write a tuto
Regards
Jean
Hello @Fox_exe . Thanks a lot for your firmware.
I was using your firmware for clean Debian jessie on MyCloud Gen2. Then I upgraded it to stretch and kept the old sshd config file. However, after reboot ssh didn’t recognize the same password. So I tried to inspect the issue by booting from your USB image, which worked before the upgrade. However MyCloud couldn’t boot from USB anymore. Now I have a clean Debian stretch but completely lost it access.
Do you have any idea why the USB boot is lost and how I can rescue it please?
