Installation

After failing to get Mon0wall to boot from a USB device on an older computer, I was recommended by a member here to buy a Transcend solid state hard drive.  I did so, and using a Live CD dd'ed the M0n0wall image to the hard drive.  The image boots, but hangs after displaying "ad0: 122MB <TRANSCEND> [248/16/63] at ata0-master PIO4".

Any suggestions?

On a whim I turned off just about everything in the BIOS and what do you know, it booted.  After some process of elimination I found out that I must disable the USB bus for M0n0wall to boot; I'm assuming this is an IRQ conflict or something like that, I read elsewhere that the BIOS should set the "Non-plug and play OS" option to true for BSD systems... is this the state of BSD worldwide or am I just running some strange hardware?

I'm running an K7 processor and the super-popular A7V motherboard.  Not up to date, but I was under the impression that BSD would boot on a pocket watch from 1900 if necessary!

I just bought a transcend drive so if I encounter this issue, thanks in advance!

Just installed to a transcend 512 MB IDE to Flash 40 pin Vertical and it was flawless.  I used the damn small linux boot cd and dd'd the 1.3b13 image to the transcend drive.  I did notice something, I initially had the cdrom as primary ide master... and the transcend drive as secondary ide master... this caused cfdisk to not recognize the drive in the damn small linux boot cd.  I had to switch it (like a normal person) and have the transcend drive be the primary ide master and the cdrom secondary master and then it worked fine.  I was lazy and didn't want to move the IDE cables the first time around, lol

Hardware is an athlon 4200 (yes, overkill I know), 1 GB ram, and a Shuttle PC (case and motherboard, have no idea what mobo it is.)  I got a good deal on this system. $50 for it all, so I thought for $50 + $22 or so for the transcend drive, it's a nice little box for cheap.