{"text":"Finally upgraded the NAS's OS from OpenMediaVault: 7 -> 8; I held off on it for too long. The upgrade was a success, however, the EFI actually broke... which actually had nothing to do with OMV anyway.\n\n\n\nThe NAS was originally a build that ran on an ASUS P5N-E SLI board with an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 -> Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 with 4GB of DDR2-800 RAM and originally ran NAS4Free\/XigmaNAS -> OMV6... from 2018. In other words, MBR\/BIOS only, no GPT\/EFI. This was getting long in the tooth by ~2024 (or 2025...), so the entire system was migrated to an ASRock J4125B-ITX board... which is EFI only. This necessitated a conversion from MBR\/BIOS to GPT\/EFI, as BIOS emulators never really worked right with this board.\n\n\n\nThe GPT part was easy... EFI, not so much. Needed to be chrooted in order to install  some necessary packages and a grub-install command to be run.\n\n\n\nI actually mounted the EFI partition wrong in \/etc\/fstab in the initial conversion, so it came back to bite me when I performed the OMV upgrade. The mount is proper now; it was missing the umask (umask=0077) entry.","truncated":false,"created_at":"Sat Jul 04 19:11:26 -0400 2026","in_reply_to_status_id":null,"uri":"tag:cwcyrix.nsupdate.info,2026-07-04:gnu-social:public:noticeId=263:objectType=note","source":"web","source_link":null,"id":263,"in_reply_to_user_id":null,"in_reply_to_screen_name":null,"geo":null,"user":{"id":1,"name":"Clarissa Walker","screen_name":"amisapphire","location":"Detroit, MI","description":"Hobbyist computer tweaker\/repairperson, webmistress, procrastinator. Does things on my own time. Also known as CW Cyrix.","profile_image_url":"http:\/\/cwcyrix.nsupdate.info\/gnu-social\/public\/avatar\/1-48-20221121122801.webp","profile_image_url_https":"http:\/\/cwcyrix.nsupdate.info\/gnu-social\/public\/avatar\/1-48-20221121122801.webp","profile_image_url_profile_size":"http:\/\/cwcyrix.nsupdate.info\/gnu-social\/public\/avatar\/1-96-20221121122758.webp","profile_image_url_original":"http:\/\/cwcyrix.nsupdate.info\/gnu-social\/public\/avatar\/1-300-20221121122757.webp","groups_count":0,"linkcolor":false,"backgroundcolor":false,"url":"http:\/\/cwcyrix.nsupdate.info","protected":false,"followers_count":0,"friends_count":0,"created_at":"Mon Nov 21 04:44:48 -0500 2022","utc_offset":"-14400","time_zone":"America\/Detroit","statuses_count":261,"following":false,"statusnet_blocking":false,"notifications":false,"statusnet_profile_url":"http:\/\/cwcyrix.nsupdate.info\/gnu-social\/public\/index.php\/amisapphire","favourites_count":0},"statusnet_html":"Finally upgraded the NAS's OS from OpenMediaVault: 7 -&gt; 8; I held off on it for too long. The upgrade was a success, however, the EFI actually broke... which actually had nothing to do with OMV anyway.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe NAS was originally a build that ran on an ASUS P5N-E SLI board with an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 -&gt; Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 with 4GB of DDR2-800 RAM and originally ran NAS4Free\/XigmaNAS -&gt; OMV6... from 2018. In other words, MBR\/BIOS only, no GPT\/EFI. This was getting long in the tooth by ~2024 (or 2025...), so the entire system was migrated to an ASRock J4125B-ITX board... which is EFI only. This necessitated a conversion from MBR\/BIOS to GPT\/EFI, as BIOS emulators never really worked right with this board.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe GPT part was easy... EFI, not so much. Needed to be chrooted in order to install  some necessary packages and a grub-install command to be run.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI actually mounted the EFI partition wrong in \/etc\/fstab in the initial conversion, so it came back to bite me when I performed the OMV upgrade. The mount is proper now; it was missing the umask (umask=0077) entry.","statusnet_conversation_id":126,"favorited":false,"repeated":false}