J Moore wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 03:54:48PM -0500, the unit calling itself zealot wrote:
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>>Kevin R. Porter wrote:
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>>>I had the exact same symptoms with SanDisk 128MB "CF" cards...  the NET4801
>>>simply didn't like them, probably something to do with the BIOS and/or card
>>>geometry.
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>>>Then I tried a Kingston 64MB "CF" card instead and it booted just fine.
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>>>Note: M0n0wall is TINY, and would fit easily on an 8MB "CF" card if you
>>>could find them that small anymore, using a 1-GIG "CF" for M0n0wall is
>>>merely expensive for no benefit obtained IMHO.
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>m0n0wall isn't all I'm using... I needed a large CF for another app. 
>That being said, I don't recall seeing anything in the docs about a 
>maximum size CF card - is there an upper limit?
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Not documented, but there almost seems to be.

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>>>>I got m0n0wall net48xx-1.0.img loaded on my CF card using physdiskwrite
>>>>0.4. The card then went directly into the Soekris net4801. Following is
>>>>the result (sorry - much of this is probably superfluous, but thought
>>>>too much was better than not enough).
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>>Jay,
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>>I don't know if Dinesh Nair's solution to a similar problem described at 
>>http://m0n0.ch/wall/list/?action=show_msg&actionargs[]=42&actionargs[]=26 
>>applies to your situation. Read for details.
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>As I read this, he recommends using C-H-S sector addressing instead of 
>Auto or LBA. I don't really grok that, but don't believe the Soekris 
>BIOS gives you the option. A list of Soekris' comBIOS param's follows.
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None of those options helped me at all on a normal PC setup.  A SANDISK 
96MB wouldn't work no matter what I did, and I did it all.  Different 
BIOS settings, using physdiskwrite in windows, then using Linux 
instead.  Nothing worked.  Popped in a 20MB SANDISK, bam, worked first 
try (although I did not try writing the 20MB SANDISK in windows because 
I was sitting in front of my Linux box at that point).

>At this point, all I know to try is a different CF card.???
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Worth a shot, and like I said above, a 20MB SANDISK worked perfectly in 
a regular PC.

Chris