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Hello folks! Please forgive a possibly frequent newbie question, but I've searched the archives and all over Google and can't find a definitive answer to my problem. I'm currently running m0n0wall using a CDROM+Floppy combination, and it performs wonderfully well, but I'd like to begin using a CF card in order to eliminate as many moving parts as possible. To that end, I'm using a Celeron-based motherboard (ASRock) which can boot from USB/Flash. I wrote the Rev-1.11 image to a SanDisk CF card using 'physdiskwrite' on a Windoze box. When I use a CF-USB converter, it boots the kernel ok, and displays all the expected startup messages until it tries to access the config.xml file, which I assume should be on the CF somewhere. I get the Fatal Error message which states "The device that contains the config file (config.xml) could not be found." My gut tells me it may be related to the similar situation in which CF-IDE converters need the BIOS set for specific CHS values, but in this case it's not possible to specify with a USB adapter in the BIOS menu. Has anyone solved this problem when booting from CF-USB adapters? This hardware combination will probably become more common as cheap motherboards and CF-USB adapters proliferate. Thanks, and again my aplogies if this is a well-worn question. Chuck Munro |