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Great to hear that your up and running. Can I recommend you make a quit wiki item about this. I can see this coming up again in the future. Mark Jai Ketteridge wrote: >Well after a BIOS update and some further investigation I have found out the >issue. > >I updated the board BIOS to the latest revision and tried another brand of >CF card. I tried a Kingmax 256MB card and it was detected as a Hitachi CF >Card. It booted all the way up to the console screen! I was overjoyed to see >the CF adaptor and board worked ok and now it was clearly the Sandisk card >that was causing isses. I set the drives to auto detect and noted their >settings. > >Both CF cards supported LBA mode and the main difference was that the >Hitachi/Kingamax Card auto detected to use PIO mode 1 and the Sandisk >Autodetected to use PIO mode 4. I manually changed the PIO mode to 1 for the >Sandisk and it booted just fine! > >Now I can deploy a brand new firewall! Yipee! > >Thank you everyone for your help! I hope this thread may help others in the >future > >JK > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jai Ketteridge [mailto:jai at innaloo dot net] >Sent: Friday, 28 July 2006 9:30 PM >To: 'Jason Collins'; m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] RE: CF Card Booting Woes - can't load 'kernel' > > >Thanks Jason > >I tried a Kingmax card and still the same result with my IBM machines. They >use a Phoenix Bios. Im still loving the old P2 400 HP. > >I will pull my hair out over the intel board this weekend. > >JK > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jason Collins [mailto:jason at mammothcomputers dot com] >Sent: Friday, 28 July 2006 8:30 PM >To: jai at innaloo dot net; m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] RE: CF Card Booting Woes - can't load 'kernel' > > >About a year back I wrote in the list of how picky Intel boards are with >devices they will boot to. I tried all manner of CF adaptors, readers, >etc... and the only units I could get to work outside of USB flash disks >were the transcend IDE modules. My advice if you are going to be using >an Intel motherboard, even an OEM Intel board in a Dell server (I think >they're all really foxconn anyway)is that you use the Transcend module >and nothing else unless you enjoy pulling your hair out. Also, someone >mentioned not liking the transcend modules because he had to write the >image in a different machine and then install them. Here's how I do it: > >Ingredients: >External CDROM >USB flash drive with physdiskwrite and mono PC image on it >Completed build with Transcend module installed > >Steps: >1. Attach external CDROM and USB flash >2. Boot from CDROM using Windows PE disk (I use a Server 2003, but I >think WinXP PE would work fine) >3. PE automatically boots to command line to run physdiskwrite -- the >Transcend is usually assigned C: as a drive letter and the USB flash D: > >Hope it saves people some time. > >jason > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jai Ketteridge [mailto:jai at innaloo dot net] >Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 7:34 PM >To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] RE: CF Card Booting Woes - can't load 'kernel' > >I have tried a Current IBM Desktop PC 9210-D7M and an older IBM 6792-22A > >Im waiting on CPUs for my Intel 845 boards but will let you know how I >go > >-----Original Message----- >From: Lee Sharp [mailto:leesharp at hal dash pc dot org] >Sent: Friday, 28 July 2006 1:19 AM >To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] RE: CF Card Booting Woes - can't load 'kernel' > > >From: "Jai Ketteridge" <jai at innaloo dot net> > > > >>Hi Mark. These are plain old 256MB cards - not ultra 2 >> >> > > > >>I have 2 Dell SC430 and none of them boot with the IDE convertor - but >> >> > > > >>do boot with a USB Card Reader (but not a successful boot to the >>console >>menu) >> >> > >Will they even boot IDE? All the options I see from Dell are SATA and >SCSI, not IDE. > > > >>I have now tried the IDE convertor in 4 P4 machines with no luck but >>tried an old P2 HP machine tonight and it worked first time! >> >> > >What machines? > > > >>Im a little reluctant to put a 7 year old machine into a business for >>a firewall though! >> >> > >I have a good 25 Dell GX200s which are P3 866 systems, and so far none >have failed. Good used equipment can be better than cheap new >equipment. > > Lee > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 > |