Steve Clark wrote: > Chris Babcock wrote: >> Scott Reber wrote: >> >>> I am not able to get m0n0wall 1.3b13 to cold boot on a Soekris 5501 with >>> combios 1.33c. I just received two of these units today and both >>> exhibit the same symptoms. M0n0wall begins to boot and pauses for quite >>> a while detecting ata0 and apparently detects no disk. It does the same >>> for ata1. This causes a fatal error "The device that contains the >>> configuration file (config.xml) could not be found. M0n0wall cannot >>> continue booting." Setting flash=primary|secondary does not make any >>> difference. >>> >>> If I press a key to reboot the configuration file is found. >>> >>> Does anyone have a fix? >>> >> This sounds like you may be using a CF card that doesn't work properly. >> What kind of CF card are you using? (If it's not a SanDisk brand card, >> you may want to try using one.) >> >> -Chris
>> > Hi Chris, > > If it is the CF why does it work on the reboot? Sounds like the combios is > not setting > something up correctly on cold boot - but the OS sort of fixes it on the > first boot and on > the reboot everything is OK. Please read the archives, this has been discussed and explained before. Basically the cards don't set the cable-select feature properly. When rebooting, the card has the correct setting. Perhaps they can work around this with a future combios hack. For what it's worth, I've been using Transcend Industrial cards and have not had a problem (other than the cards are consistently recognized as secondary master instead of primary master. (no other storage media installed). Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com http://www.djhsolutions.com/wiki _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
