Figuring that having a separate partition was best, I went straight for
that option when I installed RTP from the downloaded CD onto my Win98SE
machine. Unfortunately now when I boot the machine I get the “Hit Esc
for alternative OS” prompt, but no matter what I hit it goes straight
into QNX!
I’m a bit disappointed that the loader isn’t at least as functional as
LILO where at the boot prompt it sits there and you have a choice of
typing WHICH you want. I searched through the documentation but couldn’t
find any information on configuring the loader.
As much as I like QNX so far, I really do need to get back into
Windows…all my stuff is in there! Is the boot loader configurable
somehow? I’m getting worried because when I boot from a DOS floppy, it
can’t even read the hard drive…and the Win98 recovery routine can’t
either…it thinks that C: is an NTFS partition.
Can anyone help with this? What did I do wrong?
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Although I haven’t installed QRTP, if this is like QNX4, by the time you
get to “boot alternate OS”, you’re already too late to boot into
windows. Alternate OS is the “back up” version of QNX that allows you
to recover from modifying your build image incorrectly (or other Bad
Change ™).
If you’ve installed the QNX boot loader, I suspect that you have to
press either 1 or 4 when “Booting partition” (or some such similar
words) comes up… Others can probably comment more wisely…
the_herring@my-deja.com wrote:
Figuring that having a separate partition was best, I went straight for
that option when I installed RTP from the downloaded CD onto my Win98SE
machine. Unfortunately now when I boot the machine I get the “Hit Esc
for alternative OS” prompt, but no matter what I hit it goes straight
into QNX!
I’m a bit disappointed that the loader isn’t at least as functional as
LILO where at the boot prompt it sits there and you have a choice of
typing WHICH you want. I searched through the documentation but couldn’t
find any information on configuring the loader.
As much as I like QNX so far, I really do need to get back into
Windows…all my stuff is in there! Is the boot loader configurable
somehow? I’m getting worried because when I boot from a DOS floppy, it
can’t even read the hard drive…and the Win98 recovery routine can’t
either…it thinks that C: is an NTFS partition.
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“Robert Craig” <rcraig_spamnenot@spacebridge.com> wrote in message
news:39D0D71C.75BBCE30@spacebridge.com…
Although I haven’t installed QRTP, if this is like QNX4, by the time you
get to “boot alternate OS”, you’re already too late to boot into
windows. Alternate OS is the “back up” version of QNX that allows you
to recover from modifying your build image incorrectly (or other Bad
Change ™).
If you’ve installed the QNX boot loader, I suspect that you have to
press either 1 or 4 when “Booting partition” (or some such similar
words) comes up… Others can probably comment more wisely…
To boot both system you need qnx boot manager installed on you hard disk.
Try to use qnx’s fdisk /dev/hd0
After you installed the qnx boot manager you can pick up any partition you
wanna boot.
The default is active partition which is IMHO qnx’s partition.
So to boot other partition you need to press the partition number during
message “Booting partition 1” =).
If you don’t know that number, start fdisk … and it will show you where
the win’s partition
located. Usually it’s ‘4’.
the_herring@my-deja.com > wrote:
Figuring that having a separate partition was best, I went straight for
that option when I installed RTP from the downloaded CD onto my Win98SE
machine. Unfortunately now when I boot the machine I get the “Hit Esc
for alternative OS” prompt, but no matter what I hit it goes straight
into QNX!
I’m a bit disappointed that the loader isn’t at least as functional as
LILO where at the boot prompt it sits there and you have a choice of
typing WHICH you want. I searched through the documentation but couldn’t
find any information on configuring the loader.
As much as I like QNX so far, I really do need to get back into
Windows…all my stuff is in there! Is the boot loader configurable
somehow? I’m getting worried because when I boot from a DOS floppy, it
can’t even read the hard drive…and the Win98 recovery routine can’t
either…it thinks that C: is an NTFS partition.
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Before you buy.
You could boot from a DOS floppy (Win98 DOS rescue disk) and run fdisk.
Fdisk will allow you to change the active partition and show you the
partition info. Not all DOS boot disks are created equal. The install disk
for Win98 should have fdisk program on it. Exit out of the install process
and get to a command prompt. type:
fdisk
it should ask if you want to enable large hard disk support, answer yes.
Then you will have the main fdisk menu. Look for two menu items, Display
Partition Information and Set Active Partition. Display the partition info
and look for the first primary DOS partition, should be C:, probably FAT32.
Once you see that partition, note the partition number. Return to main menu
and select the Set Active Partition. Select the primary DOS partition as the
active partition. This should allow you to boot into Windows again.
Ezra
the_herring@my-deja.com wrote:
Figuring that having a separate partition was best, I went straight for
that option when I installed RTP from the downloaded CD onto my Win98SE
machine. Unfortunately now when I boot the machine I get the “Hit Esc
for alternative OS” prompt, but no matter what I hit it goes straight
into QNX!
I’m a bit disappointed that the loader isn’t at least as functional as
LILO where at the boot prompt it sits there and you have a choice of
typing WHICH you want. I searched through the documentation but couldn’t
find any information on configuring the loader.
As much as I like QNX so far, I really do need to get back into
Windows…all my stuff is in there! Is the boot loader configurable
somehow? I’m getting worried because when I boot from a DOS floppy, it
can’t even read the hard drive…and the Win98 recovery routine can’t
either…it thinks that C: is an NTFS partition.
Can anyone help with this? What did I do wrong?Sent via Deja.com > http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.