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vzhilov / WDMC-Ex2-Ultra

Enhanced Ram Disk and Linux Kernel for WD My Cloud Ex2 Ultra
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Loading initramfs and kernel from external USB #6

Open edocod1 opened 3 years ago

edocod1 commented 3 years ago

Hello, thank you for the guide! I was able to successfully boot Debian on my WD EX2, however I'd love to have (other than Linux 5.11) a way to upgrade the kernel and initram without using the u-boot console, as well as a way to have a bigger kernel than the one the internal memory allows.

How would i go doing that? Would it be possible to make the u-boot load everything from an external device?

pbirokas commented 1 year ago

Hi @edocod1,

I have a question about your success of booting your wdmc ex2 (non Ultra). Did you boot it From a USB drive or From Internal disk? I was trying to boot it from USB, but somehow my EX2 ignores the stick and always boots in to WD firmware.

I wonder if the armada 370 works here different from the 385 listed in the guide.

Thanks in advance.

edocod1 commented 1 year ago

I was only able to boot it from usb drive, and the initramfs+kernel was on the WD itself. :(