Here is someone with the exact same problem.
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1452190+0+archive/2002/freebsd-questions/20021124.freebsd-questions


Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Gifford" <baadpuppy at gmail dot com>
To: <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Itronix and M0n0wall


> My guess would be that your hard drive might be failing, or might be
> set to cable select instead of master or slave...  however, that's a
> very wild guess.
>
> However, as to the purpose you have these for...  M0n0wall isn't
> exactly a "good" access point, although in many cases it is "good
> enough".  A separate AP is usually a better choice.
>
> M0n0wall has a text only console, with 5 menu items.  A touch screen
> is pointless for this.
>
> However, I wish you a lot of luck.  :)
>
> jim
>
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:40:13 -0500, lists at 802dsl dot com <lists at 802dsl dot com> 
> wrote:
>> I have been having problems trying to get M0n0 to boot on an Itronix 
>> XC-6250
>> ruggedized laptop. I have flashed the 3gig hdd using physdiskwrite 
>> .5, -u,
>> and everything starts up fine until it gets to here:
>>
>> ata0-master: no status, reselecting device
>> ata0-master: timeout sending command=ec s=ff e=00
>> ata0-master: ATA identify failed
>> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c
>>
>> *********************************
>> * FATAL ERROR
>> * The device that contains the configuration file (config.xml) could not 
>> be
>> * found. m0n0wall cannot continue booting
>> *********************************
>>
>> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process 'vnlru' to stop...stopped
>> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process 'bufdaemon' to stop...stopped
>> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process 'syncer' to stop...stopped
>>
>> syncing disks...
>> done
>> Uptime: 7s
>>
>> The operating system has halted.
>> Please press any key to reboot.
>>
>> Any ideas on what is causing this? With the Itronix's touchscreen, I 
>> thought
>> this would make an excellent AP so I bought a pallet load of them. I do 
>> know
>> that other Itronix owners have been succesful in getting netbsd and 
>> linux,
>> with minor issues. If I can get M0n0 running (fingers crossed), what are 
>> the
>> chances of a touchscreen driver coming along??? TIA
>>
>> Tom
>>
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