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Many of these server-quality boards do not allow booting from IDE... I'd not be surprised if the dell is one of those. -----Original Message----- From: Peter [mailto:peter at iwebsl dot com] Sent: Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:31 a.m. To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Running Monowall on a Dell server w/ RAID For about 30.00 CDN you can buy a IDE to CF adapter and small CF card and forget about hard drives. A much better option. On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:19:44 -0500, Chris Buechler wrote: > On 3/27/06, Paul Taylor <PaulTaylor at winn dash dixie dot com> wrote: > >> I'm attempting to install Monowall on a Dell 2500 server with a >> Perc RAID >> controller (it is what we have available). It uses the >> ServerWorks chipset, >> if that matters. I booted with Ubuntu and performed the >> gunzip/dd command >> (per the documentation) to write the OS to the sda device. Upon >> rebooting, >> it boots FreeBSD successfully all the way to the message >> "Mounting root from >> ufs:/dev/md0c", where it gets a fatal error saying that it can >> not find a >> configuration file. >> >> Any ideas how to get Monowall to work successfully in this >> environment? >> Does anyone else use a SCSI system? > > > SCSI, yeah, but there are no RAID drivers in the m0n0wall kernel so > RAID isn't supported. Those PERC cards work great with FreeBSD > though, my 2550's with the RAID keys use the aac (Adaptec RAID) > driver. > > -Chris > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch ------------------------------------------------ Peter, peter at iwebsl dot com on 3/27/2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch |