Configuring Boot with Off-board ISA Intel Pro/100

[george1421]

@wanderbread Interesting… You should have seen at least an iPXE splash screen.

[wanderbread]

@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.

[george1421]

Saving a bit more complex boot file for later. Don’t worry about this for now. I will test in the lab to ensure it boots.

https://rom-o-matic.eu/build.fcgi?BINARY=ipxe.iso&BINDIR=bin&REVISION=master&DEBUG=&EMBED.00script.ipxe=%23!ipxe ifopen isset %24{net0/mac} %26%26 dhcp net0 || goto dhcpnet1 echo Received DHCP answer on interface net0 %26%26 goto proxycheck %3Adhcpnet1 isset %24{net1/mac} %26%26 dhcp net1 || goto dhcperror echo Received DHCP answer on interface net1 %26%26 goto proxycheck %3Adhcperror dhcp || prompt --key s --timeout 10000 DHCP failed%2C hit 's' for the iPXE shell%3B reboot in 10 seconds %26%26 shell || reboot %3Aproxycheck isset %24{proxydhcp/next-server} %26%26 isset %24{next-server} %26%26 echo Duplicate option 66 (next server) from DHCP proxy and DHCP server %26%26 echo Using IP sent by DHCP proxy %24{proxydhcp/next-server} %26%26 prompt --timeout 5000 || goto nextservercheck %3Anextservercheck isset %24{proxydhcp/next-server} %26%26 set next-server %24{proxydhcp/next-server} || isset %24{next-server} %26%26 goto netboot || goto setserv %3Asetserv echo -n Please enter tftp server%3A %26%26 read next-server %26%26 goto netboot || goto setserv %3Anetboot chain tftp%3A//%24{next-server}/default.ipxe || prompt --key s --timeout 10000 Chainloading failed%2C hit 's' for the iPXE shell%3B reboot in 10 seconds %26%26 shell || reboot&general.h/DOWNLOAD_PROTO_HTTPS:=1&general.h/DOWNLOAD_PROTO_FTP:=1&general.h/DOWNLOAD_PROTO_NFS:=1&general.h/DOWNLOAD_PROTO_FILE:=1&general.h/SANBOOT_PROTO_ISCSI:=1&general.h/SANBOOT_PROTO_AOE:=1&general.h/SANBOOT_PROTO_IB_SRP:=1&general.h/SANBOOT_PROTO_FCP:=1&general.h/SANBOOT_PROTO_HTTP:=1&general.h/IMAGE_PXE:=1&general.h/IMAGE_SCRIPT:=1&general.h/IMAGE_BZIMAGE:=1&general.h/IMAGE_PNM:=1&general.h/NSLOOKUP_CMD:=1&general.h/TIME_CMD:=1&general.h/DIGEST_CMD:=1&general.h/LOTEST_CMD:=1&general.h/VLAN_CMD:=1&general.h/PXE_CMD:=1&general.h/REBOOT_CMD:=1&general.h/POWEROFF_CMD:=1&general.h/IMAGE_TRUST_CMD:=1&general.h/PCI_CMD:=1&general.h/PARAM_CMD:=1&general.h/NEIGHBOUR_CMD:=1&general.h/PING_CMD:=1&general.h/CONSOLE_CMD:=1&general.h/IPSTAT_CMD:=1&general.h/CERT_CMD:=1&usb.h/USB_HCD_XHCI:=1&usb.h/USB_HCD_EHCI:=1&usb.h/USB_HCD_UHCI:=1&usb.h/USB_KEYBOARD:=1&console.h/CONSOLE_FRAMEBUFFER:=1&console.h/CONSOLE_VMWARE:=1&general.h/ROM_BANNER_TIMEOUT=40&

[george1421]

@wanderbread Well the disk may not be readable from windows since the disk format may be a linux variant.

[wanderbread]

@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.

EDIT:
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

[george1421]

@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.

[george1421]

@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, ??

[wanderbread]

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[wanderbread]

@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.

[george1421]

@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?