[syslinux] Support for boot WinCE from disk

[Gene Cumm]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 07:47, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 08:09, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 13:35, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>> If there're, is there any documentation about how it can be done?
>>
>> I think the question seems a little vague.  Assuming you're on an
>> x86-compatible and an x86-compatible variant of WinCE exists, it could
>> be booted if 1) chain.c32 can use it by one of its methods (boot
>> MBR/VBR of any partition OR load file from current file system and
>> boot;  DOS can be booted by either).  2) it can be loaded like a Linux
>> kernel (unlikely).
>
> We're doing the development of an WinCE image for an x86-compatible
> machine. It does boot with the Microsoft boot loader but we'd like to
> use syslinux for it.
>
> Chainload is not the better alternative for our case but we do need to
> load it and boot.
>
> Is there any documentation or reference about a non-Linux loader I can
> use while writting the loader for it?

IIRC, the list of loaders includes the Syslinux core, linux.c32 (more
intelligent on memory holes), elf.c32, chain.c32, sdi.c32, mboot.c32,
pmload.c32, pxechain.com and pxechn.c32.

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-Gene