On another forum, this seems to be related to FreeBSD 6.1 / 6.2 !?
Someone else is having the same issue, and on a previous version
FreeBSD 4.01 the CF/Microdrive is well recognized in it's CF/ATA
adaptor...
I still find it crazy, that when inserting this card into an USB Card
Reader, it will work just fine...
that other forum :
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2007-March/022884.html
Michel Servaes schreef:
pfSense won't start... BSD itself starts just fine, but a little later
on it asks for the boot device...
BIOS senses the drive correctly, the BSD menu comes up, and then a
little bit of text passes by (I am a n00b at BSD things), and further
on asks me to supply boot device ID... I found a forum which stated you
should enter ufs:/dev/ad0s1 - but this wont help (pressing '?' doesn't
show me any drive at all) - mind you, the computer booted from the
CF/Microdrive (the cdrom is gone from the tray!)
Now, I burnt a CDROM of ipcop, and installing on the same machine, with
the same drive params just works fine... - so the microdrive is to all
respect compatible to the motherboard... but it seems FreeBSD has an
issue using it that way...
I am a bit dazzled that this can make such a difference ?
I'm going to add an USB Card Reader to this machine this weekend, and
try to boot that way - unfortunately this machine has only USB 1.1, I
hope it'll boot from USB :)
Michel Servaes schreef:
odly enough, I today used another computer with a CF card reader (HP
Deskpro CMT 7700), and it just installed without any issues.
I did the full install (chose for unicore kernel, since the card will
be working on a PIII), and so I hope it'll just work this evening when
plugging it in on the CF/IDE controller...
I guess the PentiumIII mobo just didn't give enough drive params
through, to make the installer work...
But I'll post my findings this evening on my P3 box at home...
thanks for the url, i'll check it out...
Paul M schreef:
Michel Servaes wrote:
microdrive)... but it seems the drive cannot be found with the installer
of pfsense.
I can however format and install Windows 2003 if I want to (I cancelled
the install, since this is not the use I intended it to be on this
machine- but this is just to mention that the drive geometry is
recognized by other OS - on the same motherboard)
There are microdrives around which have non-standard firmware, designed
for mp3 player OEMs, to ensure that people don't buy up the cheap
players and rip out the microdrive.
http://www.stevesforums.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=35786&forum_id=52&page=3
Make sure you weren't ripped off by buying the wrong device!
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