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Look g for a little help on reviving this hp n40l

Trying to get omv on it and did the bios hack but for some reason I can not get omv to boot off the internal usb

I have a 500g ssd connected and it recognizes it but will not load it

I got it to load via the esata port but as soon as I rebooted it … it said no grub found and looking at the iOS the esata port is not a boot option ??

I’m thinking about reflashing the iOS to stock and then flashing it again with the hacked bios and try again ?

I tried using the cd tray location and put the 500g connected to the internal data connection and it loaded up fine but again would get grub or some magical error ??

I’m at a loss … anyone run into the same issues ?

Just trying to revive older gear for simple backups and data storage not even going to try and plex or jellyfin from it I just want decent data storage … nothing fancy and don’t want to toss it out it’s still a decent machine

Thanks for any help / walkthrough / suggestions

Edit —- ended up regulating the bios to the stock hp then reflashed it with the hacked bios .. tried again with the internal usb with the 500g ssd no go tried it on the esata port no go … ended up tossing in a 250gig hard drive on the usb port and works like a charm ?? Dunno I guess it just does not like a ssd on usb or the adapter board that turns it from sata to usb ?? No clue but with this hard drive I’m running fine
Only issue is the esata port I’ll work on that later no biggie
All 4 drives are spinning and mounting
4tb in each slot
2tb drive in the odd location is fine will use that as my Time Machine back up and pull my time capsule down as I started to get errors just the other day

Keep getting this nagging pop up on my Mac that my time machine will no longer be able to be used once the next update or something comes down the line soon

I have a few older Mac’s and MacBook pros that I do TM back ups they no longer are able to be software updates unless I do some legacy hack but really dont want to at this time and my main MacBook Pro is still good for a bit longer for updates so that will break the use of the TM back ups

Does the TM option on omv work good does anyone use it or should I just go another route for back ups for my Macs

Thanks

I have an older iPad mini 2 I use at my desk to stream music and flight radar plane watching as background noise but wanted to have it up to switch on some lights or see a cam feed from time to time but it’s not really doing anything

iPad mini 2
12.5.8
App version ?? ( said I had to download an older version because it’s not sw version 15 for iOS I’m guessing )

It does see my HA server but it’s just a white screen with the HA logo at the top and nothing else other then cancel or the refresh arrow

I have a feeling it’s just too old to do anything or am I missing something ?

Thanks

Looking for 4-8tb Sata drives about 4-5 if anyone has any to spare
Thanks

Built a small server out of a dell 5050 mff sata data drive and m.2 to sata adapter running up to some 500gig laptop drives ( external powered ) and a usp 4tb drive

I was jacking around adding a fan and somehow turned off the external power supply to the drives and should have powered down the system but me a DA didn’t and just powered it back up thinking all was good

Well nope it’s not I now have “ file system” missing on these drives but in good on the usb 4tb … nothing was very important on those drives just a bit of 3d print files I was storing and have them on another usb drive on my main computer so no biggie on that

I was google-fooing and came across some great info about ssh into it and wiping the info or something I really can’t recall something about cat this or cat that ?? And of course can’t find what I was looking at a week ago now I have more time to diagnose it and jack around with it

Anyone have some good write ups on something like this step by step or just go in and reload fresh and start over ? Would be great not have to spend the time wiping mounting and transferring the data back and forth but if I have to I will

Thanks for any help !