Restoring Stock Firmware without TFTP

I'm working on writing a proper guide for this process as it's somewhat confusing. In the meantime, to get the firmware to install on your device:

1. Get the boot files: Download the firmware for your device, unzip it and find the *.img files containing the firmware

unzip initrd.buffalo, it contains initrd.buffalo unzip uImage.buffalo, in this case it contains uImage-88f5182.buffalo. rename this to uImage.buffalo

the passwords are listed at https://vanducuy.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/buffalo-linkstation-revived/

2. Prepare the hard drive create a partition table, mbr seems to work for all devices most newer ones also accept gpt create partition1 format partition1 ext3 mount it and copy initrd.buffalo and uImage.buffalo to it

3. connect the drive to the device and boot it up, after a few minutes it should be in em mode.

4. Prepare LSupdater edit LSpdater.ini and set no format = 0 and enable debug mode per: https://herzig-net.de/?page=unbrick_ls-wxl

5. Run LSupdater It should find the device in EM mode. go to the debug menu and check the boxes as described in (I typically just check them all if starting with a blank drive) :

https://herzig-net.de/?page=unbrick_ls-wxl

6. With any luck the firmware install will succeed and the device will boot up after about 10 minutes.