When booting from a Compact Flash card in a CF>IDE adapter I have never had a boot problem with any of the NASLite variants.
I wanted to change from the internal (i.e. fiddly to upgrade O/S as I have to open up the server) CF>IDE solution to an external USB solution, so I am using a 1GB DataBar as the boot device.
Unfortunately, while finding this device to boot the O/S from *every* time, it often fails to find the same device as the configuration device and faults out with a "no configuration device" error (it was looking for a floppy - there isn't one in my server). Changing nothing, other than rebooting, if I reboot often enough it will eventually find the USB stick as the configuration device.
What's *really* galling here is that it is both intermittent and inconsistent. How does it manage to boot the NASLite kernel and then fail to find the configuration device when the boot device and configuration device are the same thing!?!
I'm going to try out a different USB stick to see if that makes a difference.
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