You might want to try using g4u and seeing if you get the same results.
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

Only the LiveCD version uses a floppy drive.

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 22:29 -0500, Braden McGrath wrote:
> If you can boot the image, it is seeing the HDD just fine...  Isn't
> config.xml stored on a floppy on the standard PC distros?  Or is that
> only on the CD version?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Francois Theroux [mailto:jftheroux at privalodc dot com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:56 AM
> To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> Subject: [m0n0wall] SCSI harddrive problem
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 	I'm trying to install m0n0wall's latest beta on a Compaq
> Proliant DL360 
> (G1) which has a Compaq Integrated Smart Array Controler to control the 
> 18GB SCSI drive.
> 
> 	I dd'ed the image on the drive using a Linux livecd. I can boot
> the 
> image, but m0n0wall stops because it can't find config.xml.
> 
> 	Curious to see what FreeBSD saw this drive has, I installed
> FreeBSD 5.3 
> on it. It sees the drive as /dev/idad0s. I was wondering, in mfsroot.gz,
> 
> which file calls the config.xml? That way, I could create a custom image
> 
> for this server.
> 
> Thanks,
>