Don't you need to put a file system on that drive first?

Try (before the dd command) newfs /dev/ad1

***Caution newfs will remove any data on that hard drive so be careful that
you select the correct drive!!!!!!

Vince Van De Coevering
IT Manager
Figaro's Italian Pizza, Inc.
503-371-9318 x216
vpv at figaros dot com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Lagreca [mailto:lagreca at gmail dot com] 
> Sent: October 18, 2005 3:06 PM
> To: Henk Zomer
> Cc: Chris Buechler; m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] install problem on compaq 6150e could 
> not find primary volume description.
> 
> 
> I'm not positive, but shouldn't you be writing to the whole drive, and
> not just a partition?
> 
> Try changing this: "dd of=/dev/ad1" to "dd of=/dev/ad" in 
> this whole command:
> gzcat /usr/m0n0wall/generic-pc-1.11.img | dd of=/dev/ad1 bs=16k
> 
> Let me know if that works.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> On 10/18/05, Henk Zomer <henk dot zomer at hetnet dot nl> wrote:
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > Ok, I now took the following steps:
> >
> > On 1 of my other computers which is capable to boot fro a 
> cd, I removed the
> > second HD and replaced it by the HD on which M0n0wall is 
> supposed to run.
> > This one has been formatted in FAT32 and is empty.
> >
> > Then I used your installer CD as boot cd.
> > So far so good.
> >
> > atacontrol list works; second HD is recognized as SEagate 
> which is ok.
> > Then I applied this command in 1 line:
> >
> > gzcat /usr/m0n0wall/generic-pc-1.11.img | dd of=/dev/ad1 bs=16k
> >
> > then appears the message that the disk is full....
> >
> > I'm getting a little bit desperate now :-(
> >
> > What did I do wrong?
> >
> >
> > Met vriendelijke groeten,
> >
> > Henk Zomer
> >
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: Chris Buechler [mailto:cbuechler at gmail dot com]
> > Verzonden: maandag 17 oktober 2005 17:57
> > CC: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> > Onderwerp: Re: [m0n0wall] install problem on compaq 6150e 
> could not find
> > primary volume description.
> >
> >
> > On 10/17/05, Henk Zomer <henk dot zomer at hetnet dot nl> wrote:
> > > Chris,
> > >
> > > Booting the live installer cd gives the message.
> > >
> >
> > that definitely suggests a major issue with the system not 
> being able
> > to boot from CD then.  The live installer CD is FreeBSD 
> 5.4, m0n0wall
> > is 4.11.  Typically if m0n0wall won't work because of some quirk in
> > 4.11, 5.4 will still boot and work fine.  I'd look to the other
> > suggestions provided earlier today by Don and Holger.
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> > 
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