On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 06:00:23PM -0800, Jeff Bolle wrote:
> Is there a way to write NetBSD into the windows CE ROM? That would be
> amazing, to have the machine (I have a z50) boot into netbsd every time.
> Has anyone had any success, I'm sure some people must have tried to do this.

I believe once upon a time someone on the linux-vr list got ahold of the
necessary blank ROM chips for a z50 and a burner, but I don't know how far
he got with it.

it'd be interesting if we could do it, but it seems like a very non-trivial
task. figuring out how to build a bootloader would almost certainly be the
first problem... each different computer probably has it's own hacked-up
version of wince, specific to that hardware; and there's no guarantee they
didn't do some funky tricks in the course of booting, simply because it
didn't have to be portable or understandable to anyone else. (the curse of
closed hardware+software).

Carl Soderstrom.
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Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com