I was researching about how to replace our current WD firmware with another one and i only found the great efforts of Fox_exe, to install clean debian or OMV which is great but still is not very friendly for me
but i came across the synology DSM 5.1 and it looks great and i had alot of features
I then found that Synology has a box DS414j works with the same processor type which is the MINDSPEED Comcerto C2000
there are many files including the uboot image, kernel zimage and the disk image also there is a file named rd.img my understanding that it contains the ram config file
I have managed to get the mycloud to boot loader mode by sending a Magic packet to stop the normal boot sequance
pushed startup.sh by TFTP to mycloud and the startup.sh loads the kernel also from TFTP
tried pushing Zimage as a boot image but did not work
tried pushing uboot image as boot image but did not work
tried building a rom by combining uboot with zimage and rd.bin but still did not boot
any other thoughts are appreciated
I will share the detailed steps and references from other posts later tonight
All you’re entitled to use is the GPL code, which is the only source code Synology must release.
Depends which version of the GPL the code is using. I’ve just torn out a useful article from a technical journal about FOSS*, which says:
“Other licences - sometimes termed ‘copyleft’ or ‘viral’ licences - require that all software, even if you have added to it or modified it, must be made available publicly, usually under the same licence terms. One example of such a licence is GPL (currently GPL Version 3).”
My understanding is that the Lesser GPL only requires you to make public changes you have made to the original code base, and that you are not obliged to make public any additional code you have written around that code base.
I would suggest that if Synology have released it, then they must be working under the full GPL; why would you release your intellectual property unless you were legally obliged to do so…? If they haven’t released all their code, you won’t be able to make a Synology image that will run on a WD platform, as the code will be incomplete…
Likewise, IANAL, and *Free and Open Source Software is an interesting branch of Intellectual Property Law…
but what I know and that Synology operates under full GPL and they have already released the source code for all their versions with deferent HW flavors for pubic
Hi Fox
I have tried to load it but here is what happened
i was able to load it the bootImage and boot the OS but temp ( if I lose power it does not boot "
the bootsata does not seem to work
I have managed to boot it temp by modifying your old TFTP startup script to include the bootsata paratmeters and replacing the bootimage with the boot image of the DSM
but if I lose the power i have to TFTP the bootimage again
any chance to make this permanent
I too am eager interested in the possibility of having the Sinology GPL software working on my EX2. I already am running the XPEnology software on a Dell desktop with great success and happiness, but can only imagine how great it would be, running on this very small, portable 2 drive EX2 unit. Possibly I can help advance your already great work and successes so far!
I’m trying to build from a bare disk from my old 4tb we cloud, previously wiped.
I’ve follows the partitioning instructions and when I get to mounting sdb3 it fails. Doing an fsck on the disk throws up super block and inode errors a plenty
I must be doin something obviously wrong, any ideas?
got it almost working. just had to reformat /dev/sdb3
so now it boots, but it seems to have left-overs from my old WD cloud (device is called MyCloud in the synology finder, login screen background is WD cloud logo)
more importantly, i don’t know how to login? what is the admin password in your image? or is there another way to reset it
