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Hello folks. First of all, THANKS to all the developers for their efforts on this software gem! I have tried the procedure to install generic-pc-pb19r536.img to a hard drive on a machine that boots from the CDROM version just fine. (The reason why I'm doing this is because the @#!!$ floppy drive is now toast, and I like the reliability of hard drives better.) It didn't work. After writing the uncompressed image to the drive (gunzip -c g* | dd of=/dev/hdc), and swapped that drive in as /dev/hda... caused the bios to hang. Plugged the linux drive back in as hda, plugged my m0n0wall drive in as hdc, and it still hung the bios. Unplugged the m0n0wall drive, and the linux drive booted fine. Pulled a nasty trick (kids, don't do this at home!) by plugging the ide cable in to the m0n0wall drive after BIOS-POST, and zeroed the boot sector of it after linux had come up. This allowed the machine to boot normally, but, of course, no m0n0wall. :( I'm extremely impressed by m0n0wall's ease of use and flexibility, but stymied by this unexpected behaviour. Any hints, anyone? Sincerely, Chris. |