[syslinux] mdiskchk and WinPE

Jerome Levy
Sun, 06 Jul 2014 23:03:44 -0000

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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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