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.<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Shao Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Shao.Miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca">Shao.Miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<tt>Carl Johnson wrote:</tt>
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<p><tt><font size="2">My mistake it's not PCI bus. It's an ISA bus
card used in older PIX's.<br>
After the motherboard bios does it's thing IOS is loaded from this<br>
card. If you goto ebay and search "cisco isa flash" you'll see what I<br>
mean. I am working with the 16meg type</font></tt></p>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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- Shao Miller<br>
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