HORM

[Richard]

When using HORM, I can succeed fine if I just resume to a simple application
or shell. If my main application is running and I try to resume to it, I
get BSOD. Since my application is a tcp and serial server some mentioned it
could be caused from initailization of certain hardware items.

A test shows that if I boot my system to it's custom shell, then create the
hibernation file. Then when it resumes to the same point, I can manually
kick off my application and it works fine.

I would rather have my system come up to the custom shell anyway then start
my application. So this is where the catch comes in. How do I create my
Hibernation File while my shell is running, but before my shell fires off
our application?

I could do something in the shell, to check and see if the application is
not running then go ahead and start it but it brings me back to the same
delimma.

Any ideas or clues?

Thanks,
Richard

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

In your simple shell, you could and a hot key that sends the system into
hibernation.

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

 

[Richard]

What my shell does is comes up, then waits until the OS is ready, then fires
off the app.

So I could add the hot key to save the system status (Hibernation file) but
I would have to be pretty quick. Would there be any issues with it saving
the hibernation file and my app starts up?

Maybe the hot key could tell my shell not to start the app this time, and
then save the hyber file. But during resume, wouldn't my shell be in the
same state as in Not to start the App and Dump the hiber file?

Richard

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

I talk about this in my second book, but there is a MSDN aricle two -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/09/CQA/

If you enable this TrapKeyHook it is always running in the system, so even
when your application is launched, the hot key would still be there.

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit