On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 07:31:52 -0500, Jason P Jones wrote:
> If Windows can mount the thing and see it (IE. By looking in disk
> mgr for w2k or XP, then the card is most likely good- The only one
> not working for me now is one that is totally lifeless and doesn't
> even light up my cf adapter's indicator light when inserted. I un-
> gunzipped the image on a linux box then used dd.exe as below for
> the rest and they were OK.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: EXT dash Mike dot Bradshaw at nokia dot com [mailto:EXT-
>> Mike dot Bradshaw at nokia dot com] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:07 AM To:
>> m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] All CF cards created
>> equally?
>>
>>
>> The continuing saga of attempting to get this Verbatim 32M CF card
>> to work. Due to having NO current working Un*x boxes, everything
>> has been done on MS Windows.
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>> so it looks like i will have to go and buy a new card :(, unless
> >someone can suggest a better method.

Hi all, first post here...

I have just succeeded in flashing m0n0wall after a number of failed attempts, from a WinXP box,
having no *nix machine with a CF writer easily available (although my next try would have consisted
in booting the Windows boxen with a CD based Linux distribution like Knoppix and trying a more
native version of dd).

I have tried 2 cards, an 8MB Canon FC-8M which is probably fitted with a Hitachi  XXM2.2.0
controller (it advertises itself as that) and a 16 MB SanDisk. The writer on the XP box is a USB2
"In-Win CR i500" and I tried both dd.exe and physdiskwrite.

Both cards work (they can be VFAT formatted, and I can R/W files to them), however flashing the
generic-pc image with dd resulted in non-bootable CF cards (error 87 as well), and interestingly
flashing the Canon with physdiskwrite resulted in a m0n0wall booting but then it would ultimately
fail to start with this error message (as experienced recently by Kevin Sexton):

FATAL ERROR
The device that contains the configuration file (config.xml) could not be found.

Flashing the 16MB SanDisk with physdiskwrite resulted in a working m0n0wall, which will run happily
on a Lex CV860A-3R53 mini-itx motherboard, the on-board CF/IDE adaptor being master on the secondary
channel.

So maybe getting a new card will work for you. I can report that SanDisk works for me, your mileage
may vary.
Try booting your Windows box with Knoppix on CD, that'll probably work.

-- 
Guillaume