Another data point! I have the Seagate 4gb CF also. I could not boot pfSense on it either. But, I can boot IPCop up!
Very strange??? Bao On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:47:50PM -0500, Paul Haddad wrote: > Bill, > > On 5/30/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thanks for sharing your experience. Can you describe where it broke during > >the install? Or did it seem to install and only fail on boot? > Same spot as you didn't seem to matter which kernel I used (again I > tried it on the WRAP and on a Via motherboard). The kernel will boot > but fails when it tries to mount /. It actually works fine when > booting from a USB adapter on a regular PC which I found kind of > interesting. > > I did notice that on the Via motherboard it wouldn't even find the > device unless I disabled UDMA on that IDE Port, as a follow up to that > I disabled a few different UDMA sounding options as part of the boot > option, but none of them got me anywhere. > > Obviously since the kernel will boot but not mount there's probably > some way to get this working, though I'm guessing it might involve > some kernel hacking... > > I guess this is the reason the Hitachi drive is 50% more expensive, > probably has a little extra bit of hardware to make it more like an > IDE drive which freebsd expects. > -- > Paul Haddad ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Best Regards. Bao C. Ha Hacom OpenBrick Distributor USA http://www.hacom.net voice: (714) 530-8817 fax: (714) 530-8818 8D66 6672 7A9B 6879 85CD 42E0 9F6C 7908 ED95 6B38 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
