Thus the rub: The exe seems to have disappeared from winbin as well. It's there, but downloads as a zero-byte file.> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 22:40:21 +0200 > From: herbszt at gmx.de > To: sha0.miller at gmail.com > CC: syslinux at zytor.com; jml9904 at hotmail.com > Subject: Re: [syslinux] mdiskchk and WinPE > > 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
> > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 22:40:21 +0200 > > From: herbszt at gmx.de > > To: sha0.miller at gmail.com > > CC: syslinux at zytor.com; jml9904 at hotmail.com > > Subject: Re: [syslinux] mdiskchk and WinPE > > > > 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 > > Thus the rub: The exe seems to have disappeared from winbin as > well. It's there, but downloads as a zero-byte file.Downloads are not zero-byte. The following are (somewhat rhetorical) questions, for your own consideration. Are you downloading a "snapshot" of the "head" of the "mdiskchk_winbin" branch in Shao's git repo? How are you expanding the content of the downloaded archive? Are you using some security-related software (e.g. antivirus)? If you are, there is a chance that the mdiskchk.exe binary is being blocked (or stripped out or something similar). To be clear, this is not an assumption; it could really be happening in this particular case of mdiskchk.exe. Regards, Ady. PS: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text, especially the archives of mailing lists. Q: Why is Top-posting such a bad thing? "No one ever says, 'I can't read that ASCII(plain text) e-mail you sent me.'" @Gene, I hope it's OK.
Please try clicking the "raw" link to the right of the .exe found here: http://git.zytor.com/?p=users/sha0/syslinux.git;a=tree;f=win32/mdiskchk/exe; h=acbde1b80f88560ce4a51c4040b776adb3b45a87;hb=mdiskchk_winbin - Shao Miller ________________________________________ From: Jerome Levy [mailto:jml9904 at hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2014 19:04 To: Sebastian Herbszt; Shao Miller Cc: syslinux at zytor.com Subject: RE: [syslinux] mdiskchk and WinPE Thus the rub: The exe seems to have disappeared from winbin as well. It's there, but downloads as a zero-byte file.
On 7/6/2014 21:41, Ady wrote:> > Downloads are not zero-byte. > > The following are (somewhat rhetorical) questions, for your own > consideration. > > Are you downloading a "snapshot" of the "head" of the > "mdiskchk_winbin" branch in Shao's git repo? > > How are you expanding the content of the downloaded archive? > > Are you using some security-related software (e.g. antivirus)? If you > are, there is a chance that the mdiskchk.exe binary is being blocked > (or stripped out or something similar). To be clear, this is not an > assumption; it could really be happening in this particular case of > mdiskchk.exe.I think Jerry was clicking on the filename in the gitweb, which, much to my initial surprise, did yield a 0-byte file. The "raw" link works, however. - Shao
and there it was. Thanks, all, that did the trick! jml> From: sha0.miller at gmail.com > To: jml9904 at hotmail.com > CC: syslinux at zytor.com > Subject: RE: [syslinux] mdiskchk and WinPE > Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 00:14:27 -0400 > > Please try clicking the "raw" link to the right of the .exe found here: > > http://git.zytor.com/?p=users/sha0/syslinux.git;a=tree;f=win32/mdiskchk/exe; > h=acbde1b80f88560ce4a51c4040b776adb3b45a87;hb=mdiskchk_winbin > > - Shao Miller > > ________________________________________ > From: Jerome Levy [mailto:jml9904 at hotmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2014 19:04 > To: Sebastian Herbszt; Shao Miller > Cc: syslinux at zytor.com > Subject: RE: [syslinux] mdiskchk and WinPE > > Thus the rub: The exe seems to have disappeared from winbin as well. It's > there, but downloads as a zero-byte file. >