Morten,

I had the exact same problem, and it turned out the boot loader wasn't 
really able to deal with the image for some reason (this was an old dual 
processor hp vectra).

I grabbed sbootmgr from the Slackware distro, burned the image to 
floppy, and let it boot the freebsd partition.

Worked like a champ!

Here's my posting from December:

http://m0n0.ch/wall/list/?action=show_msg&actionargs[]=117&actionargs[]=23


James W. McKeand wrote:

>Morten Trab wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I'm trying to setup my new m0n0wall box to run of hard drive.
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>>I've used a knoppix CD to write the image to the disk with the
>>command: 
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>>gunzip -c generic-pc-1.11.img | dd of=/dev/hda bs=16k
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>>When executing fdisk afterwards I can see the partition (size
>>~25megs) but when booting it just writes Read Error to the monitor.
>>
>>Have I been doing something wrong or ...??
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>I remember hearing of people having trouble installing from Linux, so
>try *BSD.
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>Give this a try: http://chrisbuechler.com/m0n0wall/liveinstaller/ The
>download is 56MB. Chris has built an ISO for a CDRom you can boot
>FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE then install m0n0wall. Directions are on the page
>(he mentioned he would add to the image, not sure if that has been
>done yet...)
>
>The disk will have 1.1 and 1.2b2 (according to Chris' site) you can
>upgrade to 1.11 or 1.2b3 after you have 1.1 or 1.2b2 up and running.
>
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