Configuring Boot with Off-board ISA Intel Pro/100
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@george1421 I’m not seeing where the IP is applicable on rom-o-matic. I’m probably overlooking something, attempting to create a different boot image. I didn’t have any luck with the image you provided.
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@wanderbread Well that is a bit disappointing, but somewhat expected. Did it have an issue with detecting a dhcp IP address? Or was there a different error?
We’ll have to go through the advanced route and take some of the guesswork out of what is in the image. The IP address is the address of your fog server and we are chain loading to the fog server.
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@george1421 Well I wasn’t actually able to boot from the image… or at least it seems that way. I set my boot order accordingly; on startup it went through the normal stuff, then "Boot from CD: " was displayed, the cursor blinked for 20 to 30 seconds, and it proceeded to boot from the HDD.
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@wanderbread Interesting… You should have seen at least an iPXE splash screen.
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@george1421 Upon further inspection, I don’t think the disk-drive is capable of reading from the disk I used, or something. I attempted to browse the disk in Explorer and I get an error saying the disk may be corrupt.
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@wanderbread Well the disk may not be readable from windows since the disk format may be a linux variant.
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@george1421 Burned to CD-R, it’s booting from it now, but it seems like it’s only seeing the onboard (non-functioning) network card.
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I disabled both ports via BIOS configuration, and it still fails.I take back my previous statement, I think that it’s at least recognizing the ISA card. If I have a cable plugged in the MAC shows up as 94:94:94:… but if it’s not plugged in, it’s all 0’s
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@wanderbread The initial image I sent you only knows about the first ethernet adapter, which it may be the built in broken one. That whole mess-of url I just posted is more advanced and contains all known ipxe drivers. I have not tested it yet to say its any better, worse or same as the first image.
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@george1421 The image file created with that second URL I just posted pxe boots via virtual box with 2 network adapters and the first one unplugged. Does that mean it will work for you, ??
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@george1421 I’ll attempt to. Not sure if this is coincidence, or not, but for some reason the (ISA) network card isn’t working on my Windows install now. Like it doesn’t even show in my network adapters list anymore. Attempted to go through the “Add New Hardware” prompts, won’t recognize on hardware scan. When I try to add it manually by selecting from list, it’s present but there is an error message next to it, saying the device failed to start. Tried ignoring it and re-installing the drivers anyways, but was unsuccessful.
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@wanderbread Ah yes ISA cards. Glad I left them behind back in the 1990’s…
Watch the IRQ number, make sure its not shared with another device in the computer. The ISA cards had a jumper to select the irq port. irq 3 and 4 were for the serial ports. irq 2 was for the printer (I think). That left irq 5 and 7 open for add in cards (confirm with ancient text documents to be sure). Could the on board nic be interfering with the add in one?
