QNX startup problem

Hi, I’m new to this newsgroup, and new to QNX…I’ve downloaded the free
version of QNX that the company has offered to those who signed up for it.
I’m running WindowME on a 1.1Ghz AMD system, with 256Mb SDRAM, 45Gb hard
drive, and a 64Mb GeForce2 GTS graphics card. I’ve installed QNX from the
download, and followed the instructions of the installation program,
creating a boot floppy disk. However, when I pop the boot floppy into the
drive and reboot, I get the following error:




Press space bar to input boot options.
Detected EIDE. Scanning for devices.
This can take 30 seconds…
/.diskroot file for root not found on any filesystem.
starting with safe mode
[4102] fs-pkg built: Sep 7 2000 16:00:23
Warning [/pkgs/base/safe-config/etc/system/package/.packages] doesn’t seem
to exist
Can’t access package config file.
Unable to access packages.




I then can’t boot into QNX, and have to restart my computer. Do any of
you have any advice?


Sincerely,
David J. Heinrich

You probably have you HD connected to an ATA/66 or ATA/100 controller
these are not supported. If not press space bar when asked and boot without
DMA

“David Heinrich” <dh003i@mail.rochester.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.SGI.4.10.10010262007570.46566672-100000@mail1.ats.rochester.edu

Hi, I’m new to this newsgroup, and new to QNX…I’ve downloaded the free
version of QNX that the company has offered to those who signed up for it.
I’m running WindowME on a 1.1Ghz AMD system, with 256Mb SDRAM, 45Gb hard
drive, and a 64Mb GeForce2 GTS graphics card. I’ve installed QNX from the
download, and followed the instructions of the installation program,
creating a boot floppy disk. However, when I pop the boot floppy into the
drive and reboot, I get the following error:




Press space bar to input boot options.
Detected EIDE. Scanning for devices.
This can take 30 seconds…
/.diskroot file for root not found on any filesystem.
starting with safe mode
[4102] fs-pkg built: Sep 7 2000 16:00:23
Warning [/pkgs/base/safe-config/etc/system/package/.packages] doesn’t seem
to exist
Can’t access package config file.
Unable to access packages.




I then can’t boot into QNX, and have to restart my computer. Do any of
you have any advice?


Sincerely,
David J. Heinrich