[syslinux] mdiskchk and WinPE
Sebastian Herbszt
herbszt at gmx.de
Sun Jul 6 13:40:21 PDT 2014
Shao Miller wrote:
> On 7/6/2014 01:55, Ady wrote:
> >
> > I can see 1 branch in Shao's git repo that might be relevant:
> >
> > mdiskchk_win
> >
> > [quote]
> >
> > mdiskchk.exe will be the Windows counterpart for the DOS version
> > mdiskchk.com. The purpose is to be able to scan low memory for
> > instances
> > of Syslinux' MEMDISK and report these instances' parameters to a
> > user
> > or batch file.
> >
> > Under Windows, we will use the pmem.sys driver to scan physical
> > memory.
> > If the driver is not installed, we will install it.
> >
> > [/quote]
> >
> > This seems to be somewhat a work-in-progress "compatible" with
> > Syslinux 4.06, YMMV.
> >
> > So you would need pmem.sys and mdiskchk.exe, to be tested under WinPE
> > 32-bits.
> >
> > There is an additional branch in Shao's git repo, "mdiskchk_winbin",
> > including a mdiskchk.exe binary for test (although no pmem.sys).
> >
>
> Thank you, Ady. I'd totally forgotten that this was all completed.
> This mdiskchk.exe is true to its word: If the pmem.sys driver is not
> installed, mdiskchk.exe will install it. No need to go looking for it;
> it's embedded. :)
>
> - Shao Miller
Can you please take a look at my comment from Feb 2013 [1]?
[1] http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2013-February/019511.html
Sebastian
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