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That's odd. As if m0n0wall doesn't see your second disk. I haven't been able to test the image as I don't have a spare disk to use. Can anyone else give it go? Also just check /etc/fstab.cf to make sure I haven't made a silly mistake. It should have a line "/dev/ad1a /cf"... You can get to it as follows: Mount /dev/ad1a. Copy mfsroot.gz to a temporary directory and uncompress. Then... > vnconfig -s labels -c vn0 mfsroot > mount /dev/vn0c /mnt look at /mnt/etc/fstab.cf when finished unmount and... > vnconfig -u vn0 I'll take another look at it tonight. Alternatively you could try putting the disk on the secondary master. I also have an image for that too. ftp://ftp.lin-x-pert.com/pub/m0n0wall/generic-pc-ad2-pb14r457.img. Regards, Frans -----Original Message----- From: Greg Sims [mailto:greg underscore sims at earthlink dot net] Sent: 20 August 2003 02:58 To: Frans J King Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Install on PC that Can't Boot from CD Frans, Thank-you for creating this ad1 build!! This is taking me in the right direction and I believe it will help others as well. The m0n0wall hackers might find it interesting having a full FreeBSD system on the same PC as the m0n0wall image. Thanks again for helping to make this happen. I reloading the PC with FreeBSD on the master hdd. I downloaded the ad1 image and gzcat ... | dd of=/dev/rad1 bs=16k onto the slave hdd. I powered up the PC which took me to the FreeBSD boot menu. I selected the secondary hdd and m0n0wall boots. So far so good!! The last line of the boot sequence says a mount of /dev/ad1a failed as it could not be found. This was followed by the message that says /conf/config.xml could not be found. This second error is to be expected if the mount failed. I booted the PC again and selected the FreeBSD partition from the boot menu. This is good progress that I can do this as well! I issued a "mount /dev/ad1a /mnt" which was successful. I listed the /mnt directory and saw the /conf/config.xml file was on the secondary hdd. It looks like we have one more hurdle to cross. Thanks again for your help, Greg -----Original Message----- From: Frans J King [mailto:kingf1 at cs dot man dot ac dot uk] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 3:32 PM To: 'Greg Sims'; m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Install on PC that Can't Boot from CD Hi Greg, I've placed an image here ftp://ftp.lin-x-pert.com/pub/m0n0wall/generic-pc-ad1-pb14r457.img that should work with your configuration. It's exactly the same as the most recent image available for download from the m0n0wall site except that it is modified to run on the primary slave (/dev/ad1 or /dev/rad1). Try it and let me know if it works. If it doesn't I'll make you another one. Firmware upgrading will also work but don't use new images from the m0n0wall site as they will overwrite the modifications that should make this image work on /dev/ad1 | /dev/rad1. I'll try to keep making such modifications available for new releases. Regards, Frans -----Original Message----- From: Greg Sims [mailto:greg underscore sims at earthlink dot net] Sent: 19 August 2003 06:57 To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch Subject: [m0n0wall] Install on PC that Can't Boot from CD Hi There, I'm testing m0n0wall on an old 586 PC that has two hard disks. I first discovered the BIOS in the PC is not able to boot from CD so I couldn't install using the CD + Floppy path. I decided to load FreeBSD 4.8 onto the Master hard disk and also configured boot manager. This was possible using the two floppy boot sequence provided with FreeBSD (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp). I FTPed the generic-pc-pbxrxx.img file onto the new system and ran the gzcat ... | dd of=/dev/rad1 bs=16k. This placed the m0n0wall image on the second hard disk of the PC. I booted the PC which went to the boot manager. I placed a floppy with /conf/config.xml in the floppy drive and asked book manager to boot from the second hard disk. m0n0wall seems to boot correctly but can't find the config.xml file at the end of the boot sequence just before entering the main menu. I select option 1) from the main menu and I receive a similar config.xml not found error message. It does not appear that the system is trying to read the floppy drive. Perhaps the system is trying to find config.xml in the root directory of the hard disk. Is config.xml stored on the hard disk when running on a Soekris or a PC with no floppy? If this is the case, how do you get the config.xml file onto the hard disk in the first place? Is it part of the .img? If this is the case, why can't m0n0wall find the file? Hmmm. I feel like I'm close to getting m0n0wall working but need a push in the right direction. Any help would be appreciated! Greg PS. 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