Re: how to boot an os image on a cepc from a hard disk drive

From: Oliver Münchow (omuenchow_at_NOSPAMgesytecDOT.de)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:56:51 +0100

Hi Daniele,

all you have to do is to take your hard drive. Make a primary partition, set
it to active, copy all files from
WINCEROOT\PUBLIC\COMMON\OAK\CSP\I486\DOS\BOOTDISK to your harddrive and use
the sys command on that drive, to make it bootable. Also this harddrive has
to be selected as boot device in your BIOS. Now your CEPC should start, boot
from hard drive and show you the menu. If not you should someone take a look
at your PC who installed several machines with some OSs like DOS, Win95 or
Linux (e.g. a SysAdmin). This guy should know how to get the bootdisk
started from hard drive, cause in this early state of installation all OS
installations are nearly the same.

Best regards,
Oliver Münchow 

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"zappa78" <daniele.zanarini@avirgilio.it> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:%eU7c.89516$z23.3842125@news3.tin.it...
> Hi Oliver,
> Thank you for having answered me,
> When I followed the MSDN tutorial to connect my development workstation to
> my CEPC, I used a disk image file called cepcboot.144.
> In that case everything went like you described in your mail and I was
able
> to download my image using an ethernet connection.
> But now I am using (following the MSDN tutorial "how to boot an os image
on
> a cepc from hard disk drive") another disk called bootdisk.144, but in
this
> case the disk does not boot, I don't arrive to the screen with the entry,
it
> stops to the screen that shows the component of my PC.
> I dont know if there is something wrong in bootdisk.144 .
> Thank you.
> Daniele
> "Oliver Münchow" <omuenchow@NOSPAMgesytecDOT.de> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:%23h8%238gLEEHA.2564@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > Hi Daniele,
> >
> > a lot of people had the same problems as you. You could google through
> > *windowsce* newgsroups to find a solution, but i'll will give you some
> hints
> > right now:
> >
> > If you boot your x86 machine with the bootdisk just select the selected
> > entry and look at your monitor. After a few seconds you should get a
black
> > screen with a 'Jumping to 0x????????' message. This means that the bin
> file
> > was successfully loaded and started. To get now some informations about
> what
> > the bin file is doing, connect a serial null modem cable from your CEPC
to
> > your workstation and open a terminal program (e.g. HyperTerminal) with
> > 38400-8-N-1 as settings. If you did this correctly you will get debug
> > messages in your terminal window which will tell you what's going on. If
> > everything goes well you'll get the repeating message 'Sending BOOTME
> > packet'. In that case select Target - Configure Remote Connection in
> > Platform Builder and set both services to ethernet. Now click on one of
> the
> > configure buttons. In the new window wait a few seconds and a entry
> > magically appears. Select it, close all windows with ok button and click
> on
> > Target - Download and your image should be downloaded.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Oliver Münchow
> > -- 
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> > 52076 Aachen    omuenchowATgesytecDOTde
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> >
> >
> > "zappa78" <daniele.zanarini@avirgilio.it> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:9mG7c.87036$z23.3736855@news3.tin.it...
> > > I tried to follow the turorial I found on MSDN, but  when I insert
> > > bootdisk.144 after having restarted the CEPC doesn' t happen anything
> and
> > > the image can't be downloaded.
> > > I don't know what is the problem, perhaps it is a problem connected
with
> > > BIOS but I don't know what changes must I do.
> > > Could you help me?
> > > Thank you very much.
> > > Daniele Z.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>