On 02/09/06 06:10 Aaron with Morad said the following:
> Yesterday I was working on some testing - just doing some 1-1 NAT to some other gear inside the
network.  After making a change or two tot he rules or the NAT (can't remember the last thing I
did), I lost all connection to m0n0.  I came back to my office to find that all traffic outbound had
dropped to zero.  I looked at the console display and saw the message "XML error: no m0n0wall object
found!"  I quickly rebooted - then fear set in... it goes through the normal boot messages and gets
to the following messages...
> 
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c
> WARNING: /cf was not properly dismounted
> Found configuration on ad2.
> WARNING: /cf was not properly dismounted
> XML error: no m0n0wall object found!
> XML error: no m0n0wall object found!

the filesystem on the CF wasnt properly dismounted, probably due to some 
interruption/error during the upgrade process of the firmware. all is not 
really lost though, for you could plug the CF card into a notebook/desktop 
and run fsck on it to clean the filesystem up. m0n0wall by default does not 
have fsck on it's image.

if you already have a backup of config.xml, then just write (thru dd or 
physdiskwrite) a new image onto the CF, restore the config.xml and go along 
on your merry way.

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