Windows CE onto Flash drive?

Hello,

I'm trying to install windows CE 4 onto an embedded system.
Things look to work well, i can download an image to the CEPC.
CE loads, and works.

Now starts the problem. I do not have a regular harddisk installed, but a
FLASH drive (DiskonChip). Thus everytime I reboot, the memory is empty, and
CE is gone.

How Can I load the image of CE on the Flashdrive?

Paul
Fri Oct 27 11:24:44 CDT 2006

That's specific to your device. Presumably it looks to DOS like a hard
disk, doesn't it? If that's the case, you'd need a) some means to copy an
nk.bin file to it, b) some way to cause it to boot on startup (a different
bootloader). You might store the bootloader in the ROM normally used for
BIOS on a PC, or there might be some means provided by your hardware OEM to
store a boot program in the boot sector of the disk-on-chip device, which,
on boot would locate nk.bin, load it into RAM and jump to it. Or, you might
boot to DOS and use the loadcepc program that comes with Platform Builder to
load nk.bin and jump to it. Since your hardware is clearly not an
off-the-shelf PC, talk to the hardware vendor about how the expect this to
happen...

Paul T.

"Sander" <Sander@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:93F33FB5-04B1-4A91-AA5B-D30011121121@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install windows CE 4 onto an embedded system.
> Things look to work well, i can download an image to the CEPC.
> CE loads, and works.
>
> Now starts the problem. I do not have a regular harddisk installed, but a
> FLASH drive (DiskonChip). Thus everytime I reboot, the memory is empty,
> and
> CE is gone.
>
> How Can I load the image of CE on the Flashdrive?
>

Sander
Mon Oct 30 08:37:02 CST 2006

Paul,

first thanks for the help.

I worked things out, downloaded a Bios bootloader. And copied nk.bin to the
diskonchip. WinCE runs on startup.

Now the following:

this WinCE display will be the controlbox for a machine.

So everytime WinCE start, I want to autostart an self-build application.
With this application, users can control a machine.

Is there a way to solve this ?

Paul
Mon Oct 30 10:39:45 CST 2006

As you might guess, this has been asked hundreds of times. You can visit
groups.google.com and use the advanced search to select a set of groups to
search (microsoft.public.windowsce.*), etc. There are several ways to start
your own application on startup and which one is right depends on what else
is going to be running, when the application needs to be started, and where
it is stored.

Paul T.

"Sander S" <Sander S@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9BD06D74-FDAD-45C7-8E3C-F14DB2BEB89D@microsoft.com...
> Paul,
>
> first thanks for the help.
>
> I worked things out, downloaded a Bios bootloader. And copied nk.bin to
> the
> diskonchip. WinCE runs on startup.
>
> Now the following:
>
> this WinCE display will be the controlbox for a machine.
>
> So everytime WinCE start, I want to autostart an self-build application.
> With this application, users can control a machine.
>
> Is there a way to solve this ?
>
>