Re: setting up BIOS loader - difference in mkdisk and sys

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You do not have to use the DOS sys command since you do not need a DOS
system disk. (sys will copy DOS system files -command.com etc- to your
media).
once you have partitioned and formatted (without the /S options as you can
imagine) your media running mkdisk batch will copy some files (boot.ini,
etc) to your media and,
most importatnt thing at all, it will overwrite the DOS partition boot
sector with bsect.img. This code is the one which locates and executes the
BIOS bootloader (BLDR) which
in turns will copy the OS image nk.bin in memory and jump into it

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"Shani" <Shani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio
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Hi
I am trying to setup my Intel Atom dev platform to run WinCE 6.0.

In an article on "Setting up BIOS Loader"
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms900922.aspx), I read the
directions to use MKDISK command. However, in some other resources to
transfer the MSDOS system to storage device, it was advised to use SYS c:
command.

What is the difference in mkdisk and sys? Which one is preferred?

Thanks
Shani




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