I have not run into one that won't but it's easy enough to check. Remember m0n0 runs from memory the
config file is like 20 KB you really don't want a hard drive heating up and potentially failing.

Cheers,
Peter

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:37:00 +1200, Craig FALCONER wrote:
> 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
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