about CF and Hard Disk

[Maverick]

Hi,all

I want to boot XPE from CF and store data on a Hard Disk, is that possible?
On my device, my CF boot as the second slave IDE device. To identify a
storage device as a master or slave device, it's due to the bus interface on
the mother board, right? If so, in my situation, how could I manage to do
what I said above?

maverick

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Maverick,

I want to boot XPE from CF and store data on a Hard Disk, is that possible?

Yes it is if your BIOS support boot from second slave device. (most BIOS-es do support this).
When you boot to XPe from CF then you can do any copy operation that you desire.

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[DJ]

I'm doing this with a little twist. I have the same XPe image on the HD
just incase I want to boot to that instead. You may want to search the
NG just in the last to weeks. Eitherway that I boot the booting device
is drive C: and the CF stays EWF protected. My system has to store log
files on the HD.

See Ya
DJ

 

[JC]

Maverick,

As Slobodan indicated, you can do this if your board's BIOS permits... Most
do. You would have your HDD as primary, and your CF as slave (this is
determined by either jumper on Drive/CF carrier, or if you are in Cable
select, it's the position on cable. In the case that your Flash is not on a
carrier, but mounted to the board directly, there should be a jumper that
will allow a swap from slave to primary)... this is not a huge deal, either
way.

What you can do is make sure your boot is set to the HDD, and that is where
the Boot.ini will live. You can set the Boot path in there to boot from the
CF by changing the arc path, and once it sees NTLDR (EWF or otherwise)then
it will boot normally from flash. as long as you have the components in your
build necessary to see the hdd (explorer, Disk manaagement, ETC) you should
be able to mount the Drive and use it, all while you are executing the OS
from flash. I have a customer that does this now, and it works fine. They
have a small OS image, but a TON of data they need to access once in the
OS.. (like 120 GB or more) so flash is prohibitive in that manner.

HTH