Re: Booting a CE device over the network

Hi!
Sorry... Since that part was done by my customer himself, that is not
something I have yet been involved in.
I'm currently only involved in making the CE image...and in investigating
the possibility to boot "directly" into CE...
Jan Ove Halvorsen


"Madhuri Gupta" wrote:

sir,
can you provide me method of booting DOS thru PXE,

We boot DOS thru pxe but it is thru linux (pxelinux.0)

is there another way also, if yes, can you share that with us.


Jan Ove Halvorsen has brought this to us :
Hi!
Ok. We already have the device boot into MSDOS through PXE.
So a two step procedure seems realistic, although not desired:
Boot MSDOS through PXE and use loadcepc.exe to download nk.bin from a TFTP
server. Does this sound ok?
I was hoping for a more direct solution, but we could live with this. The
devices are supposed to run for a long time not requiring to boot, so...
Comments?
Regards,
Jan Ove Halvorsen


"Henrik Viklund" wrote:

Doh! You've got an x86, so PXE is technically supported by many (your
board's) BIOS. Unlikely you could just have it download a nk.bin and
expect it to parse it properly, though.

Henrik Viklund
http://www.addlogic.se

On 13 Mar, 00:14, "Henrik Viklund" <henrik.vikl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
AFAIK there is no "off-the-shelf" PXE support for CE, but a lot of the
infrastructure PXE is build around is allready present in a typical CE
bootloader (that has PB image download capability, I might add).
There's UDP support, DHCP support and TFTP server support (TFTP client
code examples exist, but you have to add it to the bootloader
yourself).

I can't say I've implemented full-featured PXE support for CE devices,
but I have done very similar solutions for production "flash-farms". I
modded the DHCP code to parse extended DHCP discover/offers and then
used the info to pull the correct image of an TFTP Server. I beleave
PXE also has the capability to display a boot menu, but I never
bothered implementing that (it should be fairly easy too add, I
think).

Henrik Viklundhttp://www.addlogic.se

On 12 Mar, 22:04, Jan Ove Halvorsen



<JanOveHalvor...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi!
I need some advice:
We're developing an embedded device (CE5) using a custom board and a
Kontron ETX-PM module. The embedded device will have no local storage
facilities (except RAM, of course...). We want the device to be fully
network bootable, using PXE. What would be the best option/procedure
here? "Remote Boot Services" seems to be a nice option, but it seems to
be evailable only in XPE environments...?
Thank's for any input...!
Regards,
Jan Ove Halvorsen
J. O. Halvorsen Consulting, Norway- Dvlj citerad text -

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