- I would firstly check the drive parameters being correct in the BIOS.
- Check master/slave
- Do not use Cable Select

I created the image using physdiskwrite, as a true administrator, on a 
Vista64 system... before I did this using my account (with elevated 
rights), which did not work (and gave me the same problem as you have, 
but you're doing it otherwise, so that wouldn't be it)

Henning Andreseck schreef:
> Hi,
> i just tried to set up a m0n0wall. I booted from the dsl-cd, 
> downloaded the generic-pc-image und wrote it to the disc using
> gunzip -c generic-pc-xxx.img | dd of=/dev/hda bs=16k
> but it doesnt work. when i boot is just says "Read Error". I tried it 
> with as askozia as well, same error.
> you have some ideas?
> thanks
>