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Thread: iPXE boot 3Com PCMCIA card
Post: RE: iPXE boot 3Com PCMCIA card
| Whoah, NiKiZe, thanks for the ultra quick answer.
I`ve tried around a bit, but asking myself how to find out about the PCI ID.
So far I have tried lspci with linux. But even in verbose mode, I am uns... |
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2019-04-13, 11:01 |
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Thread: iPXE boot 3Com PCMCIA card
Post: iPXE boot 3Com PCMCIA card
| Hello again, dear forum! : )
I`ve got two Panasonic Toughbooks CF-M34 mark 1, as out company would have thrown them away elsewise.
Since they are in perfect state still, I decided to dispose them my... |
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9,802 |
2019-04-11, 21:19 |
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Thread: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
Post: test finished.
| NiKiZe, I did memtest the machine with memtest+ 2.0
Newer versions of memtest+ made the machine crash immediately when booted.
The old version though ran through nicely 3 times in a row without an er... |
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2018-01-09, 22:36 |
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Thread: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
Post: RE: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
| I will memtest the machine with the current version of memtest86+ - Let's hope it's not the RAM... :o |
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2018-01-04, 11:10 |
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Thread: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
Post: What if...
| Mhmhm.. is it possible that 24 MB of RAM is not enough to run iPXe? |
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2018-01-04, 00:23 |
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Thread: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
Post: RE: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
| Yup, absolutely sure. Yes, exactly that one.
I've got the terminal open, still. Copied and pasted here:
Code:
ipxe/src $ make bin/ipxe.dsk
[... lots of stuff successfully compiling .... |
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2017-12-28, 23:41 |
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Thread: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
Post: RE: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
| Getting interesting.
First of all, I swapped the RTL8139 NIC with an Intel Pro1000 Desktop Adapter PCI, but usual problem... hangs up with the prebuilt floppy image. --> So, not the card's fault a... |
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2017-12-28, 19:27 |
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Thread: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
Post: RE: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
| Oho! Didn't know! I'll try this out tomorrow. Lending an old PCI card from @work.. ; )
Remembering correctly, there should be an Intel Pro1000 card also..
Thanks for the input! : ) - I'll let you kno... |
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2017-12-28, 01:09 |
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Thread: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
Post: RE: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
| MultimediaMan, NIC is a RTL8139 PCI.
This is quite a common card. Should be supported :o |
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2017-12-28, 00:13 |
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Thread: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
Post: RE: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
| Sorry, I might have not been precise enough.
--> Yes I DO have a floppy with iPXE, that boots on any machine BUT that 486er.
--> the floppy hangs up the 486er after that "Loading ROM image....... |
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2017-12-27, 22:58 |
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Thread: Various iPXE servers on net
Post: RE: Various iPXE servers on net
| Hi fchpriani!
Development wise this would be possible, but then you'd need something centrally organised.. like somebody hosting this stuff, which.. in many cases might most likely create copyright i... |
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2017-12-27, 22:40 |
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Thread: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
Post: TO: NiKiZe | TOPIC: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE ...
| NiKiZe, thanks for your quick reply.
Unfortunately I cannot boot from anything but drive A: or C: as the BIOS does not allow anything but that, and I do not have any IO-cards which could change this. ... |
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2017-12-27, 22:27 |
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Thread: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
Post: 486er hangs on boot with iPXE floppy
| Dear community,
I have restored my 486 DX2-66 MHz machine utilising 24 MB of RAM to work perfectly fine again, like back then.
Now I've came to the idea, why not use it's capabilities to forensicall... |
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2017-12-27, 03:23 |
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