<<<<EMERGENCY>>>> Can't LOAD QNX anymore

I have a major dilemma. I have Windows 98 and QNX on my laptop each
of which is on its own separate partition. I boot QNX through a bootup
disk. Windows 98 crashed on me and so I rebooted. When I try to boot
QNX, I can’t get in anymore. I can boot Windows fine though.
In QNX, all I get are ??? polling throughout the screen and hitting the
ESC button doesn’t do anything. Using fdisk in Windows allows me to see
that the QNX non-DOS partition is still in existence. Reinstalling QNX is
not a possibility for me to consider since I have a dozen or so Photon
programs that I created that are vital to my project. I have another QNX
machine which I created a boot up disk. I can use the bootup disk fine,
but it only shows me information on the disk. How can I access my QNX
partition? I don’t care if Photon doesn’t even work, I just want to get
those programs and back them up. I can always use my other QNX machine to
use the programs. Any help would be appreciated.

sincerely,
Channarith Vanthin

Bad luck. I know how it feels.

Three time now I have had to reinstall QNX because something in Windoze
(suspect a swap file or something) crapped all over my QNX4 partition.
Three bloody times!

I was lucky the last two times - diskshadow allowed me to be back on-air
in a couple of hours. The first time cost me a couple of days. I no
longer have windoze anywhere near my QNX development system - the
closest it gets is phindows.

You have my sympathy. I suspect what happened to me has happened to you.

Geoff Roberts.

Channarith Jerome Vanthin wrote:

I have a major dilemma. I have Windows 98 and QNX on my laptop each
of which is on its own separate partition. I boot QNX through a bootup
disk. Windows 98 crashed on me and so I rebooted. When I try to boot
QNX, I can’t get in anymore. I can boot Windows fine though.
In QNX, all I get are ??? polling throughout the screen and hitting the
ESC button doesn’t do anything. Using fdisk in Windows allows me to see
that the QNX non-DOS partition is still in existence. Reinstalling QNX is
not a possibility for me to consider since I have a dozen or so Photon
programs that I created that are vital to my project. I have another QNX
machine which I created a boot up disk. I can use the bootup disk fine,
but it only shows me information on the disk. How can I access my QNX
partition? I don’t care if Photon doesn’t even work, I just want to get
those programs and back them up. I can always use my other QNX machine to
use the programs. Any help would be appreciated.

sincerely,
Channarith Vanthin

this is just a guess, but it might work for you.

i noticed that if i installed RTP in a windows binary file, the
usual boot windows/RTP config.sys selection comes up, however
i later decided to partition and install a 2gig RTP.

as it turns out, now everytime i boot from eather install it now
sees that i have 2 bootable RTP installs and always asked me which
one i want to boot.

(its bugging me actially, how do i make it boot to my partition
rather than the binaryfile without typing 1-2 every time, i dont want
to delete the binary-file installs, i find them very useful, anyway
to auto select a multi RTP boot install ?).

it might be possible for you to do a win binaryfile install, boot to
that then cd/fs/hd0-qnx4 (your real partition) to recover your Photon
projects.

what i`d like to know is why (it seems) if i boot my real 2gig RTP partition
i can see the old windows installed RTP binary base image but i cant see
its associated binary 600meg root image ?, do i need to mount that part
of the old binary install or am i not looking in the right place ?.

if i need to mount it by hand ,whats the shell command ?

another hopefully simple question, how do i make a blank binaryfile of
any given size/place so i can then copy/backup files from my RTP partition
to these binaryfiles i`ll make, i want to be able to make 640meg
RTP binaryfiles that i can burn to CDr from winblows as a simple way
to back and reinstall in the event of problems later, a CDRW filesystem
for RTP would be a VERY GOOD THING, perhaps when the driver Kit is made
available, someone might try writing this driver/file system for my
mitsumi CR-4804TE CDRW (hint,hint LOL).


it would seem that useing RTP binaryfile installs of 640meg would be
the easyest way to back up your work to cd or large file servers at the
moment, perhaps one day someone will write an app that allows people
easly to mount these RTP binaryfiles and manipulate the contents from
within windows/linux/whatever , perhaps build this option and
(UAE amiga binaryfiles please) into something like the open source Dopus4
file manager clone (worker v1.3.3 +) see http://www.qnxstart.com for link.

im assuming that the RTP binaryfile is simply a fixed 32:1:2 UAE type format that doesnt change every time you make one, perhaps someone
might like to try makeing this (i think) very useful thing ?.

I have a major dilemma. I have Windows 98 and QNX on my laptop each
of which is on its own separate partition. I boot QNX through a bootup
disk. Windows 98 crashed on me and so I rebooted. When I try to boot
QNX, I can’t get in anymore. I can boot Windows fine though.
In QNX, all I get are ??? polling throughout the screen and hitting the
ESC button doesn’t do anything. Using fdisk in Windows allows me to see
that the QNX non-DOS partition is still in existence. Reinstalling QNX is
not a possibility for me to consider since I have a dozen or so Photon
programs that I created that are vital to my project. I have another QNX
machine which I created a boot up disk. I can use the bootup disk fine,
but it only shows me information on the disk. How can I access my QNX
partition? I don’t care if Photon doesn’t even work, I just want to get
those programs and back them up. I can always use my other QNX machine to
use the programs. Any help would be appreciated.

sincerely,
Channarith Vanthin


Paul May, Manchester, UK
Team AMIGA Central, Phoenix Core

Oh God - bad luck also from my side.

Seriously, you mentioned that you have a second QNX platform. Try to
make (with ‘buildqnx’)a system image similar to the one which resided
(resides still ??) on your w98 box.

copy it to a floppy device (QNX initialized with ‘dinit /dev/fd0’ and
mounted with
‘mount /dev/fd0 /floppy’) to override the floppy file ‘/.boot’.

Put that floppy into your w98 box and reboot (reset) it. If that does
not help, try to add
some utilities (like sinit, ksh, fdisk etc.) to the floppy and also some
very primitive
configuration files (like /etc/config/sysinit).

Hope that helps

Geoff Roberts schrieb:

Bad luck. I know how it feels.

Three time now I have had to reinstall QNX because something in Windoze
(suspect a swap file or something) crapped all over my QNX4 partition.
Three bloody times!

I was lucky the last two times - diskshadow allowed me to be back on-air
in a couple of hours. The first time cost me a couple of days. I no
longer have windoze anywhere near my QNX development system - the
closest it gets is phindows.

You have my sympathy. I suspect what happened to me has happened to you.

Geoff Roberts.

Channarith Jerome Vanthin wrote:

I have a major dilemma. I have Windows 98 and QNX on my laptop each
of which is on its own separate partition. I boot QNX through a bootup
disk. Windows 98 crashed on me and so I rebooted. When I try to boot
QNX, I can’t get in anymore. I can boot Windows fine though.
In QNX, all I get are ??? polling throughout the screen and hitting the
ESC button doesn’t do anything. Using fdisk in Windows allows me to see
that the QNX non-DOS partition is still in existence. Reinstalling QNX is
not a possibility for me to consider since I have a dozen or so Photon
programs that I created that are vital to my project. I have another QNX
machine which I created a boot up disk. I can use the bootup disk fine,
but it only shows me information on the disk. How can I access my QNX
partition? I don’t care if Photon doesn’t even work, I just want to get
those programs and back them up. I can always use my other QNX machine to
use the programs. Any help would be appreciated.

sincerely,
Channarith Vanthin

Joerg Kampmann
IBK-Consult - (embedded Systems)
WWW: http://www.ibk-consult.de

Yeah you’re in a bad situation…

Basically, what I would suggest is (I’m assuming youre talking about QNX4
?):
Create a QNX4 boot floppy with the proper disk driver for your hard
disk.
You need to put at least chkfsys and dinit on your floppy (along with
everything else required for it to boot…) also ls is a goot thing to have
along with sin.
Once in the shell, try starting your hard disk driver,
Check what’s in your /dev directory,
Try to mount the partitions from your hard disk (assuming it’s /dev/hd0)
with mount -p /dev/hd0
Look at your partitions in /dev, your QNX partition will be something
like /dev/hd0t77, depending on your QNX installation.
Then try mounting this partition, for example ‘mount /dev/hd0t77 /hd’
try doing ‘ls /hd’.
If your able to see what’s in there, you’ll need to run ‘chkfsys’ on
‘/hd’ to make sure everything is in order and probably recopy your boot
image with something similar to ‘cp /hd/boot/images/ /hd/.boot’.
and this will probably be enough for you to reboot.

If on the other hand, you cannot do an ‘ls /hd’, then the only other
options that I know of is to rebuild the ‘root block’ of the hard disk with
‘dinit -h -r /dev/hd0t77’ and the again you MUST run chkfsys on your
partition (ex: chkfsys /dev/hd0t7’7 or chkfsys /hd). This might be enough
for you to gain access to your files. If it works, you’ll probably need to
re-install your boot image (see previous comment).

I hope these steps helps you in recovering your files but what I would
suggest is regular backups ;-(, As I often say: backups, accept no
substitutes…

P.S. This procedure has been done many times but be aware that you might
lose all your data and i take no responsibility in this, sorry.

“Channarith Jerome Vanthin” <cvanthin@wpi.edu> wrote in message
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I have a major dilemma. I have Windows 98 and QNX on my laptop each
of which is on its own separate partition. I boot QNX through a bootup
disk. Windows 98 crashed on me and so I rebooted. When I try to boot
QNX, I can’t get in anymore. I can boot Windows fine though.
In QNX, all I get are ??? polling throughout the screen and hitting the
ESC button doesn’t do anything. Using fdisk in Windows allows me to see
that the QNX non-DOS partition is still in existence. Reinstalling QNX is
not a possibility for me to consider since I have a dozen or so Photon
programs that I created that are vital to my project. I have another QNX
machine which I created a boot up disk. I can use the bootup disk fine,
but it only shows me information on the disk. How can I access my QNX
partition? I don’t care if Photon doesn’t even work, I just want to get
those programs and back them up. I can always use my other QNX machine to
use the programs. Any help would be appreciated.

sincerely,
Channarith Vanthin

cvanthin@wpi.edu (Channarith Jerome Vanthin) wrote in
<Pine.OSF.4.21.0010130114200.22990-100000@bert.WPI.EDU>:

I have a major dilemma. I have Windows 98 and QNX on my laptop each
of which is on its own separate partition. I boot QNX through a bootup
disk. Windows 98 crashed on me and so I rebooted. When I try to boot
QNX, I can’t get in anymore. I can boot Windows fine though.
In QNX, all I get are ??? polling throughout the screen and hitting the
ESC button doesn’t do anything. Using fdisk in Windows allows me to see
that the QNX non-DOS partition is still in existence. Reinstalling QNX is
not a possibility for me to consider since I have a dozen or so Photon
programs that I created that are vital to my project. I have another QNX
machine which I created a boot up disk. I can use the bootup disk fine,
but it only shows me information on the disk. How can I access my QNX
partition? I don’t care if Photon doesn’t even work, I just want to get
those programs and back them up. I can always use my other QNX machine to
use the programs. Any help would be appreciated.

sincerely,
Channarith Vanthin
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I’ve had a fowl oder in my mouth from the get go when I found I couldn’t
access my hard drives thru the floppy OS, never the less wont be able to
access 32 fat anytime soon. I’d settle for 16 bit but even thats looking
pretty grim.

ger@rtts.com.au (Geoff Roberts) wrote in <39E6B6E1.AC14C356@rtts.com.au>:

Bad luck. I know how it feels.

Three time now I have had to reinstall QNX because something in Windoze
(suspect a swap file or something) crapped all over my QNX4 partition.
Three bloody times!

I was lucky the last two times - diskshadow allowed me to be back on-air
in a couple of hours. The first time cost me a couple of days. I no
longer have windoze anywhere near my QNX development system - the
closest it gets is phindows.

You have my sympathy. I suspect what happened to me has happened to you.

Geoff Roberts.

Channarith Jerome Vanthin wrote:

I have a major dilemma. I have Windows 98 and QNX on my
laptop each
of which is on its own separate partition. I boot QNX through a
bootup disk. Windows 98 crashed on me and so I rebooted. When I try
to boot QNX, I can’t get in anymore. I can boot Windows fine though.
In QNX, all I get are ??? polling throughout the screen and hitting
the ESC button doesn’t do anything. Using fdisk in Windows allows me
to see that the QNX non-DOS partition is still in existence.
Reinstalling QNX is not a possibility for me to consider since I have
a dozen or so Photon programs that I created that are vital to my
project. I have another QNX machine which I created a boot up disk.
I can use the bootup disk fine, but it only shows me information on
the disk. How can I access my QNX partition? I don’t care if Photon
doesn’t even work, I just want to get those programs and back them up.
I can always use my other QNX machine to use the programs. Any help
would be appreciated.

sincerely,
Channarith Vanthin

Can Ghost.exe support QNX partitions?