Re: Image instalation issue
- From: "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:52:11 -0700
The bootloader has to reside somewhere that is launched on *boot*. That is,
it's almost always in ROM/Flash on the CPU. It has *nothing* to do with
copying a file to a flash disk. In a PC, the BIOS is what launches on boot
and, if the 'disk' attached to the device has DOS on it, BIOS loads the DOS
code and, before too long, you have a C:\ prompt.
In your Windows CE device, you have to either do the BIOS job, not just the
DOS job (nk.bin is the equivalent of that), or you need to have a source for
a boot sector program and you need to format your disk specifically for
that. EBOOT is an Ethernet bootloader; it connects back to the Platform
Builder computer and downloads nk.bin from there each time. You'd need
something else for boot sector programs. I haven't been through the Windows
CE 6 code enough on the x86 stuff to see what might be there, but that's
usually a capability that the Board Support Package vendor would provide
(boot sector bootloader).
Paul T
"justin" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I had done a bit more reading, and I didn't even have a bootloader on my
flash drive. I just had NK.bin, and START.dat. So I need to have a boot
loader on my flash drive to get the drive to boot. I have done some
reading
up on bootloaders for CE, and I am confused as to which I should use, I am
thinking eboot would be the one. How do I make the flash card have an MBR
with eboot in it, I haven't been able to find anything on that. Thanks
"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" wrote:
That would be an issue which you should talk to the device vendor/BSP
vendor
about, I would think. The bootloader component, developed by the same
people who built the board support package (BSP), for the hardware
determines how you can load a new OS into the system. It also, of
course,
if it is capable of reading a flash card to get that image, determines
what
the correct format for the flash card is. It might easily be that the
bootloader doesn't support FAT32, for example, and that your card, which
might be large 1GB or larger, let's say, is formatted, when you do that
from
Windows XP, with FAT32. All we can do is give you some things that might
be
wrong, though. The people who wrote the bootloader would have to tell
you
what's right.
Paul T.
"justin" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have been attempting to get Windows CE 6.0 running on a solid state
PC(x86). I have read everything I could find, and still could not find
anything to resolve this issue. The machine I am trying to load my
Windows
CE
6.0 Image to doesn't connect to the internet, and it's on the other
side
of
the building(too far to run cables to). So, my only option is to use a
flash
card. I am wondering if there are any resources out there concerning
this
topic, I have found very, very little. I have been manually copying my
CE
Image(nk.bin) to the flash card, and then putting the card in the solid
state
pc. When the pc begins to load, an error reads "Invalid Disk."
Does anyone have any information on this issue? Thanks!
.
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