I have installed Zima on a USB drive. I would like to get Zima installed on an internal drive. I can install it but so far, I have not been able to get it to boot from an internal drive. QNAP has locked down access to the BIOS. I have tried removing the DOM and that has no effect. Has anyone had success in this area?
Unfortunately no, not in a reliable or supported way on TS-x77.
QNAP has the BIOS/UEFI locked down and enforces boot from the QNAP DOM / signed boot chain. Even if ZimaOS installs to an internal disk, the firmware won’t hand off boot to it. Removing the DOM doesn’t bypass this.
What does work:
- Booting ZimaOS from USB
- Using internal drives purely as /DATA once ZimaOS is running
What doesn’t:
- Booting ZimaOS directly from internal SATA/NVMe
- DOM removal as a workaround
There are no confirmed success reports of full internal boot on TS-x77.
Best options are:
- Keep USB-boot + internal data disks
- Or run ZimaOS as a VM
- Or use hardware with an unlocked BIOS for bare-metal installs
Hello,
I was trying to make a USB-boot for ZimaOS 1.6.1, and it does not appear to boot (it fails at opening the ZimaOS gateway.)
Is it still possible to make the USB-boot for ZimaOS 1.6.1?