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Hi Don Firstly thanks for your reply. Yes I have used Nero to burn the ISO images, also selected the option to close the CD and also burned at the slowest speed available, (8x!) as per some suggestions I noted on the list. I've tested CD discs: Monowall vers 1.11, 1.2 and 1.22, which incidentally boot fine on other machines. I will try swapping the CD Reader Drive (ASUS 40x) on the Pentium 166 to be sure its not a CD hardware issue, but I doubt it is. The CF option you refer to is a good idea, I was however concerned that if I have a CDROM BIOS issue then I might also have a CF IDE BIOS issue!? Are the CF BIOS IDE drives pretty universally connectable? The Motherboard does not have native USB sockets, however I do have some USB cards, so I can add one and....? Presumably you are suggesting it may be possible to boot from a USB CF card? Re: "I 'believe' this has been done, but I all changes made to a running system are lost upon reboot or power failure. Basically, the disk is read-only. " I am not sure I understand this. My understanding is the only thing that needs not be "read only" is the XML config file, and if there were room on a floppy disc to set up the CD ROM to boot as well as store the Settings XML then this might be a good option for (presumably) many other people with similar setups that won't natively boot the CD ROM's for whatever reason..... Kind regards David Hingston Chequers Software New Zealand Developers of Productivity Software http://www.cheqsoft.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Munyak" <don dot munyak at gmail dot com> To: "Tortise" <tortise at paradise dot net dot nz> Cc: <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 12:22 AM Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] CD Boot Problem On 4/13/06, Tortise <tortise at paradise dot net dot nz> wrote: > Hi > > I have a Pentium 166 box (96M RAM) which I cannot get to boot from the m0n0wall CD, for the life of me, having tried burning the > CD > closed and at the slowest speed available to me. > > The BIOS is supposed to boot from CD's and does try but hangs. > > I have failed to get later BIOS installed for the Motherboard, although tried extensively. Seems I cannot source the right > version > of awdflash.exe?! (Soyo motherboard 5TF) > > My question and suggestion is whether it could be done or has been done to make the floppy disc boot into CD's in these > circumstances AND contain the config XML? > > In anticipation many thanks. > > Kind regards > David Hingston > Chequers Software > New Zealand Developers of Productivity Software > http://www.cheqsoft.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > Questions... 1. I'll assume that you've downloaded the correct image to your local harddrive. Has your next step been to use something like Nero and burn and ISO image, or are you just burning the file to CD? 2. Have you tried to boot from another "live" distro to see if maybe this is a hardware issue? If not, check out www.distrowatch.org and grab something minimal. Again, I am assuming you are creating an ISO image to burn to CD. > My question and suggestion is whether it could be done or has been done to make the floppy disc boot into CD's in these circumstances AND contain the config XML? I 'beleive' this has been done, but I all changes made to a running system are lost upon reboot or power failure. Basically, the disk is read-only. Can your system boot from USB. Have you thought about compact flash. You can get a cheap CF-to-IDE adapter from ebay pretty cheap($10 US). Also, the CF can be bought from crucial.com for about $18 US for 128mb. ~Don |