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Any chance anyone who has been able to boot a N2800 from a hard disk could post how they did it and where to get the bflash.2800 they used. mine dosen't seem to want to look for anything on the hard disk other than kernal.2x00.

Did you do that:

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Move the chassis around so that you are facing the front with the fan on your left.
Locate the on/off switch on the front panel. The switch should have a white plastic barrel
covering its shaft. The switch itself is mounted on the motherboard. Just to the right of the switch are a pair of jumper blocks. The jumper block closest to the front of the chassis is labeled PASSWORD OVR. Move the jumper to the left one pin so that it covers the leftmost pair of pins and the far right pin is exposed.
Start the unit. Count to twenty (20), and turn the system off. Move the jumper back to its original position covering the rightmost pair of pins and exposing the leftmost pin. Wait
at least 20 seconds PUT THE CF-Card into the slot and restart the system.

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If yes, then you see first the blue screen with "Testing in progress"
WAIT
then there are appearing different screens
WAIT until you see a screen with
POST STARTUP ERROR(S)

go to CONTINUE
Then you get a screen with
ERROR
go to AUTOMATICALLY RECONFIGURE SYSTEM AND CONTINUE

Next screen -> CONFIGURITION ERROR
go to CONTINUE

next screen -> CONFIGURATION/SETUP UTILITY
here you choose
Start Options -> Setup Sequence ->Primary Startup Sequence
and choose
harddisk0

then 2X ESC
goto SAVE SETTINGS
ENTER

and the Netvista 2800 will boot again from CF-card.
When You connect a harddisk to the connector, you must
put a power cable from somewhere (a second power supply unit )
to the harddisk.

ALL,
My previous posting is related to Netvista 2800 .
The Netvista 2800 unlike the 2200 could boot a DSL from CF-Card.

N2800,
my two Netvista 2800 never needed a bflash.2800

It was the little bootblk jumper that was stopping me . Thanks It was driving me nuts , nothing would work.

N2800,
So it works now?

I wrote, that you must take the power for the harddisk from somewhere.
After a look on the board i remember that the connector with 4 pins beside the CF-card-slot ist the power connector for the HD.
I don't know where you can get a plugfor that power connector.

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