Hi,

I'd just like to report a success now that I finally got the final  
hardware. I can now say for sure, that generic-pc m0n0wall 1.21  
installed onto a usb drive works perfectly on a Dell PE850 1U server. :)

	-jake

On Feb 12, 2006, at 20:20 , Jarkko Santala wrote:

>
> On Feb 12, 2006, at 19:13 , alex wrote:
>
>> Did you use the same method to copy the image from your HD to your  
>> USB drive?
>
> Yes, I wrote DSL with physdiskwrite and I've tried writing m0n0wall  
> with both physdiskwrite and cat | gunzip | dd. Besides, the first  
> boot stage seems to load fine, it just doesn't know how to continue  
> from there.
>
> I just also tried to boot from a freshly written stick with all  
> harddrives and optical drives disconnected, but it made no  
> difference. I've also tried to give the first stage loader a bunch  
> of places to look for /boot/loader, but I haven't found one that  
> would work.
>
> 	-jake
>
>>
>> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:24:43 +0200, Jarkko Santala  
>> <jarkko dot santala at portalify dot com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Feb 11, 2006, at 23:15 , Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
>>>
>>>> And, can you boot from the same device using some other image?
>>>
>>> I just tried with DSL's (http://damnsmalllinux.org) bootfloppy-
>>> usb.img and it boots just fine, so both the stick and the  
>>> motherboard
>>> are fine.
>>>
>>> 	-jake
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Lee Sharp wrote:
>>>>> From: "Jarkko Santala" <jarkko dot santala at portalify dot com>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm going to implement a few firewalls using m0n0wall and I was
>>>>>> thinking I'd use just an USB drive for storing both m0n0wall and
>>>>>> the  config.
>>>>>
>>>>> How does your motherboard support booting from USB?  Can you boot
>>>>> from other USB devices?
>>>>>
>>>>>                        Lee
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