Installation

[The device that contains the config file (config.xml) could not be found. m0n0wall cannot continue booting.]

Hello,

I was trying to install beta 1.3b13 ver of m0n0. I've Athena set (266 MHz Geode, 128 MB PC100) and it's hangs with something that:
The device that contains the config file (config.xml) could not be found. m0n0wall cannot continue booting.

Does anybody know what is going on? When I'm installing m0n0 using cd-version, it is ok. "Gereric-pc" I was trying with DoM (32MB) and HDD Maxtor (40GB).

Michal

Hi Michal,

I have the same problem with similar hardware (Neoware EON4000). Try using 1.3b9.

See this post http://forum.m0n0.ch/index.php/topic,2054.0.html

The release notes for 1.3b10 indicate the base system was updated, this might have something to do with the problem.
"updated base system to FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1"

Regards

Colin

I believe the usual fix for that is to change the HD to CHS in the BIOS.

Hi all.
I don't think swap to CHS solve the problem.

After some tests I assumed the 1.3b13 simply don't work.
The hardware I used was a thin client Visara 1883 (Geode 233MHz) with 64Mb RAM and a DOM (disk on module) IDE 64Mb.
Every time I used Physdiskwrite 0.5.1 to flash the image to the DOM.

Well, I started with 1.233 (put the DOM into PC, flash mono image, put into the thin client and boot the firewall) an all came right; the monowall boots an came up normally.
Ok, then the next step was to upgrade (via Web GUI) to version 1.3.b7 as suggested; aslo this version boots and run normally.
Last I applied (always using Web GUI) the 1.3b13 firmware obtaining your same error.
The same happens if you want install 1.3b13 firmware directly without follow the three steps 1.233 > 1.3b7 > 1.3b13.