Re: Failed to obtain MAC address

Dear Jeffrey and Martin,
Thank you both very much for the given & offered help - really appreciate that! I almost figured it out thanks to Jeffrey‘s hint on the other comments, but I must have messed up something else that currently prevents the device from booting properly. I ordered an TTL UART adapter which should already have arrived last Friday, but that‘s a different story ;D I‘m quite confident that I will be able to fix this once the delivery finally arrives. I’m already looking forward to this tiny project for the holidays :-) I will probably write an update later today.


> On 22. Dec 2025, at 06:34, Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> wrote:
> * Rick <[email protected]> [2025-12-17 09:03]:
>> I'm currently trying to recover Debian on a QNAP TS-412 and I'm
>> encountering the same "Failed to obtain MAC address" message as mentioned
>> in the thread author's post. I understand it's been a while since this
>> topic was initially discussed, but any recollection of the solution would
>> be greatly appreciated. ;D
> 
> Did you figure out a solution or not?
> 
> I've forgotten a lot of things about QNAP but I'll try to help.  To
> start with, can you run the script with "sh -x SCRIPT" so we see the
> exact failure.
> 
> What QNAP model do you have?
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> Martin Michlmayr
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