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Loading iPXE from RPL
2019-08-23, 00:39 (This post was last modified: 2019-08-26 19:48 by coredump4.)
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RE: Loading iPXE from RPL
(2019-05-30 21:04)NiKiZe Wrote:  you could try with the 1.0.0 release, or even older from the gpxe era, if you find something that works, use git bisect to see where it broke. (guide on the ipxe site)

there are some other more recent posts about running on old cpus as well, I have run it in qemu emulating 486 or 386, but have not tested on real hardware.

I was initially testing using a 486 system, but now am using a P-III 866Mhz. I built iPXE & gPXE ne2k_isa images for use with an RTL8019AS ISA PnP NIC. Both .dsk images work fine when put on a floppy disk, but neither .rom image boots from the BROM chip. The card is jumpered for a 64kB ROM at address D000. gPXE hangs, but iPXE reports:

Code:
iPXE starting execution...1B101B10 000D11B4 0001AE58
Installation failed - cannot continue

I would guess that something's going wrong decompressing the image. What are the next troubleshooting steps at this point?
Thanks!
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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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