Re: Wince bootloader x86 on a standard PC

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Ajit,

You may want to try testing your NK.bin by booting it with a 'loadcepc'
based bootdisk if you have one available.

In any case, I've found that getting a USB flash drive to boot Windows CE
can be a little more tricky than a normal hard drive. Here are a few
suggestions:

- Build the NT based 'CESYS' utility in
public\common\oak\csp\x86\biosloader\utilities\cesys\nt
- Manually prepare your USB Flash driver with the NT cesys utility -- see
mkdisk.bat to see how it calls DOS based cesys, it should be similar. You
can also review cesys source to see what its doing.
- Finish preparing USB Flash with your NK.bin...etc

If that doesn't boot then there may be a disrepancy between the code BIOS is
using to access the USB Flash and the code stored in the flash's boot
sector.

Ensure that the flash drive's 'DriveId' (stored in its boot sector) is
identical to the one used by BIOS on bootup. It may be that one is
programmed to floppy drive when it is expecting hard driver id or the other
way around.

Thanks,

Jeremy Cooke [MSFT]
jecooke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Windows CE BSP Team

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<ajittambavekar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1153751395.541821.318510@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I am trying to boot a standard PC with Windows CE 5.0 image. I have
done the following tasks,

1. Successfully built the X86 BIOS Bootloader (BLDR) by modifying
READ_BUFFER_LENGTH_MAX from 0x4000 to 0x3000 in fat.h
2. Successfully created Windows CE 5.0 Setup floppy disk, copied above
BLDR to it
3. Successfully created a partition (32MB) on USB flash drive,
formatted (no volume name) and done the "mkdisk C:"
4. Copied nk.bin to USB flash drive
5. Tried to boot standard PC with the above USB flash drive

Result is, my pc shows a message of loading Wince bootloader and then
reboots. So it's rebooting in a loop. I think I have messed up
something in nk.bin file. Please let me know any special considerations
(platform, modules and settings) for creating nk.bin which will run on
a standard PC.
Thanks,
Ajit



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