[Soekris] Preparing 4G Microdrive for net4801

[Jonathan Groll]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:52:16PM +0300, Petri Ojala wrote:
> I received from net4801-50 recently from the Danish distributor and  
> I'm trying to get pfSense firewall installed on a 4G Microdrive that  
> would be pretty good for the job.  However I'm having trouble getting  
> the system to boot properly from the 4G microdrive.  Is there  
> something special one should do when preparing a 4G "CF" on a FreeBSD  
> PC to be used on the net4801?  Everything works just fine with the 2G  
> CF memory card but with the 4G microdrive, it just doesn't work  
> properly when attached to the net4801.
> 
> 
> I wrote the following on the pfSense mailing list:
> 
> I'm really puzzled by the problem.
> 
> I used LiveCD on a Thinkpad laptop to install pfSense on a MicroDrive/ 
> CF-card using CF/USB-adapter.  99 from the menu, following the  
> options to format and partition the whole drive/card for FreeBSD,  

CF/USB adapters (at least under linux) do not report the correct drive
geometry, and I suspect that this is the case here too...

Perhaps try one of:-
1. Installation of the os on the soekris itself, using a serial cable...
(eg. http://www.ultradesic.com/?section=22 )

2. Installation on a PC with a IDE/CF adaptor

Hope I'm sending you in the right direction...

Jonathan.