Re[3]: WinCE autorun. Anyone tried?

Hello Icebird,

Friday, August 4, 2006, 5:31:06 PM, you wrote:

> Good day, Paul.

PS>>   And btw, I would be also interested in nice working, automated
PS>> bootloader from WinCE, and in seamless dualboot. Towards that goal,
PS>> I've reserved a wiki page:
PS>> http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/WinCePalmOsAsBootloader , so
PS>> feel free to dump your thought there ;-)
> Ok. While now I started "playing" with eVC++ and will try to make
> something..heh...usable as a simple replacement of welcome.exe.
> I also started digging my iPAQ h2200 rom, since the card autorun
> doesn't seem to disable some things like screen calibrations upon a
> hard reset and on h2200 it doesn't seem to work at all.
> I wonder if I'll be able to locate where welcome.exe actually is in rom.

> The goal I'm after - is making an automated bootloader AND a
> backup\restore tool at the same time, so that you needn't run iPAQ
> backup after rebooting "hard" - the bootldr will do it automatically.
> Such ldr could be installed either by card autorun or via replacement
> of welcome.exe.

  Consider myself interested too. I had something like that in mind
also, but it always seemed like too distant a thing. Well, maybe time
has come to bite at it. I've again spent some time on the net hunting
for low-level object store (that's what we need to backup)
information. Of now avail - there're lot of rambling about 33 wince's
process slots of 32Mb each, but regarding ObjStore there's hardly
anything besides few trivia facts and mentioning of
SetSystemMemoryDivision()/GetStoreInformation(). Still, I dumped few
links on the wiki page.

  Then I remembered that I've bothered to get wince5 platformbuilder
with my previous ROM investigations, though it arrived too late ;-).
Well, it seems to have the answers to disturbing questions - I dumped
files of primary interest to wiki too. And I actually see that PB is
quite good and giving a ROM layout too. So, you may want to look for
that too.

> Sorry that wouldn't be very fast, since I've never done anything in
> C++ before. I only know delphi & php/mysql well and eVC looks very strange to
> me. =( Will have to learn :-/

  I guess you don't start from scratch, right? HaRET seems like
natural thing to extend with all these features.



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 Paul                            
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