From: "Jan Luehr" <listen at kabelshop dash online dot com>
> Am Freitag, 10. März 2006 18:02 schrieb Lee Sharp:
> > From: <listen at kabelshop dash online dot com>

> > > sadly I've some trouble booting a PC. I gunziped the pc-generic image 
> > > and
> > > dd'ed (on Linux) it to a CF-Card. (Some Kingston 128MB card) and tried 
> > > to
> > > boot the system with some IDE-CF adapter. For some reason, the bios 
> > > has
> > > some trouble, detecting / understanding (?) the disc, because the 
> > > system
> > > don't step to the second bios-screen (where the system info is listed 
> > > in
> > > a tabular).

> > There are lots of little things that can go wrong with a disk install 
> > that
> > we may miss.  The best way I have found to make sure it writes correctly 
> > is
> > Chris's live install CD on the system in question.

> Thanks, but so far, I see no reason, why dd on linux should mess up the 
> image.

Assuming you did a "gzcat /usr/m0n0wall/generic-pc-1.11.img | dd of=/dev/ad0 
bs=16k" then you are right.  However, the most common problem here is using 
/dev/ad0s* and writing to a partition.  The live install also allows you to 
see the filesystem as m0n0wall will see it.  "atacontrol list" will confirm 
it is actually ad0, and not some other device.

                        Lee