[gPXE] Cisco flash card

[Carl Johnson]

i'm not sure of what format the IOS is in. some sort of proprietary cisco
format i'm sure. i'm not really looking to save any cisco stuff off of the
card though. i only want to re-flash the card so that i might be able to
bypass certain bios limitations. for example with the cisco card in place
the system will boot/load IOS without a video card. pull that card and you
have to have a AGP/PCI video card in one of the slots or it'll just sit
there and throw beep codes. that's just one example though. i have other
ideas too but circumventing the motherboard's (se440bx-2) on-board bios
limitations and using something on the card that can catch the boot process
before any kind of mass storage devices are read/booted would be cool. i've
been looking into different bios hack mods too.



On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Shao Miller
<Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca>wrote:

>  Carl Johnson wrote:
>
> My mistake it's not PCI bus. It's an ISA bus card used in older PIX's.
> After the motherboard bios does it's thing IOS is loaded from this
> card. If you goto ebay and search "cisco isa flash" you'll see what I
> mean. I am working with the 16meg type
>
>
> Not too sure how to do this.  What format is the IOS binary?  If we can
> determine that, we can make a guess about what gPXE build target you might
> try as a substitute.
>
> Additionally, gPXE has SAN-boot protocols, but you would need a bit more
> than gPXE in order to boot the local HDD, such as PXELINUX and chain.c32.
> Can you provide additional details about this scenario?  It sounds
> interesting, but I'm not too sure what you're after.
>
> - Shao Miller
>
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