via's fastboot and xp. Possible?

arjveld · 09-18-2006, 06:14 PM

Hello all,
Been reading here for a long time now and especialy the parts about optimisation.
I did a

for this but couldn't find anything. What i was wondering is if it's possible to use Via's Fastboot rom voor loading XP from CF of a MII. It is possible with CE en linux, but i haven't heard anything about XP. From what i understand is that it loads a kernel/bootsequence to ram with the abbility to connect to PCMCIA. What file starts the bootsequence for XP? is that ntldr? if so, does that automaticly give me an option to connect to PCMCIA where it can find the rest of the files to boot. The fastboot copy's ntldr to ram and from there it loads XP of the CF. Probably isn't that easy because others would've done it long time a go

SFiorito · 09-18-2006, 08:31 PM

i doubt it's possible. i had an MII a few years ago and looked at fastboot. I think someone was working on getting CF boot support for XP but it was just talk at the time.