[syslinux] mdiskchk and WinPE

[Shao Miller]

On 7/6/2014 16:40, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> 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

Dwoops.  Totally missed that.  Yes, that's doable and yes, that's 
smarter.  I will try to do that soon.  I remember you were having MinGW 
on Windows build problems, but MinGW on Linux should be able to rebuild 
it, if you need something immediately and can recode that bit.  - Shao