Notices by kajer (kajer@infosec.exchange)

@ryanc My guess is: It's a custom bios that supports some sort of additional PCIe expander.

Given the issue that the ASIC card won't let me POST on another newer motherboard, but that is just a guess.

@ryanc
https://pastebin.com/rSLjnC9J

omg, i can finally take an image

turns out, when using bad ssds that still test "okay" from a NAS... are actually bad.

who knew

$1$hwrbwjlu$/Tr8NgIA4oKuqpC.1pnk3.:aaaaaaaaaa

I got an X11 generation motherboard installed with some minor chassis modification. With the ASIC card installed, the server wont post. no beeps, no vga, no anything.

Going to stop fucking around with the hardware, and start to disassemble the disk image i took,

I seem to be ignoring the obvious... replacing the motherboard with something not 3000 years old.

A minor annoyance, all screws are stainless. My magnetic driver has no effect. Nice build quality I guess.

I just want to boot an OS so I can see WTF the dataplane board shows up as in LSPCI

Great, now I am looking at hardware firewalls on ebay for a side project to do

Yes! Ha ha Yes!

Nice thing about ebay local pickup, i might have both of the 4020 firewalls tonight.

2x PA-220
2x PA-4020

ugh

I guess I will start the teardown threads soon...

And this is why we keep old shit laying around

I'm in... First order of business would be to image the drive I guess

So the data plane is basically a big pcie network card?

Also PCI? This shit is older than I thought

Ooo, what is this?

I see something promising

oh fuck, 32bit xeon.... wow

So I set the cmos date to 2024, and then got the no-vga beep code...

After finding that the CMOS reset jumper was never installed, I got the CMOS back to default

Booted an opnsense iso .. nope

oh snap - we can make this a dual xeon board

https://www.supermicro.com/products/archive/motherboard/x6dlp-eg2

Moved the motherboard onboard VGA to disable, and viola

Okay, now we are getting something

Found a stash of 2gb pc2 reg ecc

Got the date up to 2024

The old CMOS battery was cooked