copying qnx to partition

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Hi,

I’ve installed qnx 4.25 onto my hard disk which has two partitions.
What I’d like to do is copy a subset of the installation to the other
partition and then boot that second partition.

Any ideas would be appreciated,

thanks,

joel

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Difficult as only one Partition can be type 77, and that is the bootable one.
You could make a QNX within FAT/FAT32 partition and each of those and the Type 77 could be
bootable…
-Paul

Joel D Weingarten <jweingar@umich.edu> wrote in message news:3A71C770.73B7C162@umich.edu…

Hi,

I’ve installed qnx 4.25 onto my hard disk which has two partitions.
What I’d like to do is copy a subset of the installation to the other
partition and then boot that second partition.

Any ideas would be appreciated,

thanks,

joel

3

Are you sure you’re not mistaking ‘partitions’ with ‘hard disks’? All 4
partitions on the primary hard disks can be potential boot partitions.

What you could do is just install QNX again on your second partition.
(Assuming your second partition is empty.) There is an option to the
installer on the boot disk with which you can override the partition
you’re installing to: -t , where is the partition type of the
second partition. (Usually 78, but you can use fdisk to change it to
whatever you want. QNX doesn’t care, as long as it is unique…) Once
your second partition is bootable, you could copy over any other extra
files you need from the first partition to complete the environment you
seek. When you boot the machine, the QNX bootloader gives you a few
seconds to choose which partition to boot from.

Good luck,

rick

Paul Russell wrote:

Difficult as only one Partition can be type 77, and that is the bootable one.
You could make a QNX within FAT/FAT32 partition and each of those and the Type 77 could be
bootable…
-Paul

Joel D Weingarten <> jweingar@umich.edu> > wrote in message news:> 3A71C770.73B7C162@umich.edu> …
Hi,

I’ve installed qnx 4.25 onto my hard disk which has two partitions.
What I’d like to do is copy a subset of the installation to the other
partition and then boot that second partition.

Any ideas would be appreciated,

thanks,

joel