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])
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