Greetings.
I've been researching Daphile for a while now, and I believe it's exactly what I've been looking for.
I've done some test installations and it's performed incredibly well, with one exception - I cannot start up to the desired drive without using the install media attached, and restarting.
Here's the setup:
The server: 32-bit Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (also called the Inspiron 910), Diamondville Intel Atom N270 (1.6 GHz/533Mhz FSB/512K cache), 2 GB of RAM. Unit is set to USB BIOS Legacy Support from the firmware, so it may boot from USB. Also, the Dell's internal 16 GB PATA SSD has been disabled in Firmware so the Dell will not boot from it nor should it recognize it during startup. This 16 GB PATA SSD has a functional installation of LXLE on it -
https://www.lxle.net/ .
External USB drive - Western Digital , 1TB.
I used the 32-bit x86 daphile-20.08-i486.iso to create an installer/bootable USB keychain drive, using UNetbootin. Creation of said USB keychain drive worked flawlessly, as did startup to it and running Daphile, also using the provided setup option to "clear disk drive for installation" - the Western Digital 1TB.
So, I then followed the instructions in the guide:
https://www.daphile.com/download/Dap...stallation.pdf - "6 Final target installation of Daphile."
After this completed, I successfully restarted to the external Western Digital USB 1TB drive, and it has functioned.
However, if I shut down the Dell and then reboot, I get a variety of error messages:
1.
Read Error
2.
error: failure reading sector 0x802 from 'hd0'
entering rescue mode...
grub rescue> ls
grub rescue> ls -l
error: failure reading sector 0x802 from 'hd0'
grub rescue> set
cmdpath=(hd0)
prefix=(hd0, msdos1)/grub
root=hd0, msdos1
grub rescue>
3.
Rebooting might get me to an actual GNU GRUB menu (version 2.04), where I have the option to select and start from *Daphile SW-version fw2008040757.
Pressing enter to boot to this selection, and I will get one of the following error messages:
Failure reading sector 0x450c0 from 'hd0'
error: no such partition
error: you need to load the kernel first
Press any key to continue...
error: failure reading sector 0x802 from 'hd0'
error: no such partition
error: you need to load the kernel first
Press any key to continue...
error: no such partition
error: no such partition
error: you need to load the kernel first
Press any key to continue...
Which brings me back to the grub menu, where I can select "c" for the command line, and then get a proper grub prompt, where I can now enter in the following:
grub> menuentry "Daphile" {insmod chaininsmod ext2set root=(hd0,msdos1) # 2nd HDD, 3rd partitionchainloader +1}
[ after discovery using the previous set command - ls didn't work - (hd0,msdos1) substituting (hd1,3) from " 9.1 BIOS boot loaders" found at
https://www.daphile.com/download/Dap...stallation.pdf ]
Even after following these instructions, I still get the errors listed above.
However, if I insert the installer USB keychain drive, start up to Daphile from that, remove the keychain drive when prompted, on another computer navigate through a web browser to Settings>Restart System, it restarts to the external drive and everything works as desired - The Dell Mini starts up and runs from the attached external USB drive, and all of the music loaded onto this external drive is available to serve up to the rest of the various players throughout the house, as well as playing back from the Mini.
That said, if I insert the installer USB keychain drive, start up to Daphile from that, remove the keychain drive when prompted, on another computer navigate through a web browser to Shutdown and select either Restart or Shutdown, and the computer either restarts or I manually restart it, I get one of the above errors, or perhaps something like this:
Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation
For RealTek RTL8101E/0102E PCI-E Ethernet Controller v1.08 (080408)
CLIENT MAC ADDR: XX YY ZZ AA BB CC GUID: 12345678-1234-1234-1234-ABCD12345678
PXE-E53: No boot filename received
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
Operating System not found
From
https://www.daphile.com/download/Dap...stallation.pdf : "9 Multiboot configuration. Daphile installation tool does not support multiboot configurations. However with a little expertize and manual work it's possible to install and configure also Daphile to work on multiple operating system setup."
Ultimately, what I'm wanting to do with this is run Daphile using this Dell Mini 9, where Daphile is installed on an external hard drive - along with all of the music - and the computer automatically boots from the external.
For a variety of reasons, installing onto the internal drive isn't an option. There is no plan for making this a multiboot system; Daphile is simply going to be installed upon and run from an external USB drive.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated. I'd love to get this up and running as described.
Thanks in advance!