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Loading iPXE from RPL
2016-09-23, 22:40
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RE: Loading iPXE from RPL
I forgot to update this thread as I've made a little progress while trying to make this board booting.

The main goal was to have iPXE on very old motherboards, mostly for convenience over floppy disks and cdrom.
I noticed that I did most of the testing with an early 486 (HP Vectra 486M) and a 386 (Compaq Deskpro 386S).
Both of them did successfully load the ne2k_isa.pxe image, but it seems to fail to execute it.

I tried to modify the CFLAGS used for compiling iPXE (from no flags to -march=i386), without success.

Then I tried to put this ISA board in a PII motherboard. The system loads the ne2k_isa.pxe image, executes it, chainloads to iPXE and is able to (slowly) boot an OS.

Would iPXE be limited to 586 machines?
Has anyone actually tested it on 486/386 machines, except qemu?
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Loading iPXE from RPL - man-x86 - 2015-09-30, 23:00
RE: Loading iPXE from RPL - mcb30 - 2015-10-22, 00:50
RE: Loading iPXE from RPL - man-x86 - 2015-10-26, 15:22
RE: Loading iPXE from RPL - man-x86 - 2016-09-23 22:40
RE: Loading iPXE from RPL - coredump4 - 2019-05-30, 19:35
RE: Loading iPXE from RPL - NiKiZe - 2019-05-30, 21:04
RE: Loading iPXE from RPL - coredump4 - 2019-08-23, 00:39
RE: Loading iPXE from RPL - mhabets - 2021-02-20, 10:47



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