I am trying to install QNX 4.25 on a “new” computer.
The computer is a Digital Celebris XL 5120
120 Mhz Pentium
64 MB RAM
NCR 53c810 scsi controller with a 4 Gb scsi drive
Intel PCI 82557 ethernet card
Originaly the problem was getting
QNX Loader
Boot Partition 1
(Unable to find OS - or something similar)
I re-fdisk-ed the disk using fsys h=255,63
now what I get is the following
QNX Loader
Boot Partition 1
Press Esc for alternate OS…_
(that is 5 dots appear quickly) and then the computer hangs…
If I boot from a floppy I can perform
Fsys.ncr8scsi
mount -p /dev/hd0
mount /dev/hd0t77 /hd
/hd/bin/prefix -R /=/hd/
and get full access to the drive.
Anybody have an idea what the problem is?
I should add that the install was done from floppy.
I do not know what patch level I have (A,B,C…). I will look into it.
The install was done with the following command
install -p “fsys h=255,63”
build script is
sys/boot
$ boot -vp
sys/Proc32
$ Proc32 -l 2
sys/Slib32
$ Slib32
sys/Slib16
$ Slib16
/bin/Fsys
$ Fsys
/bin/Fsys.ncr8scsi
$ Fsys.ncr8scsi fsys -h=255,63
/bin/mount
$ mount -p /dev/hd0 /dev/hd0t77 /
/bin/sinit
$ sinit TERM=qnx
I do not believe that the OS is getting out of ./boot as I never see the
output from the -v option!
At what point would that output usually appear?