On 15.05.2008, at 16:33, Harald Sauff wrote:

> right now I have a DELL PowerEdge 1750 running m0n0wall 1.233 from a  
> CD-ROM, saving its config on a floppy drive.
>
> To decrease reboot time and increase reliability I wanted to switch  
> to a harddisk installation. So I booted the system from a linux CD  
> and wrote the image of 1.3b11 to the harddisk.
> I removed all CDs and the floppy disk, and rebooted. The 1.3b11 came  
> up without a problem, but at one point an error message came up that  
> said something like "can't find config.xml" (or "can't access...") -  
> unfortunately I didn't write the exact message down, because I had  
> to reboot into the 1.233 again to reestablish connectivity for my  
> users...

Sounds like the FreeBSD kernel didn't detect your disk (controller).  
Did you spot any kernel messages that would indicate that it found  
your server's SCSI controller (and I just blindly assume you've got  
SCSI disks in that server ;), or device da0 (first SCSI disk)?

Also, if that server has a spare PATA slot where you can fit in an  
IDE<->CF adapter, you're probably better off using that instead of  
HDs...

- Manuel