[Soekris] Can't cold boot new 5501

Chris Babcock cbabcock at utiliware.com
Tue Jul 22 20:37:23 UTC 2008


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


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