I recently installed Qnx4 on 2 machines without any problems during
installation. However, during the reboot after the installation, I get to the
point where it asks to enter the Esc key for an alternate os, and it hangs.
These machines had an existing Qnx4 installation on them that was identical
to the new installation. The odd thing about this is, that I can make a boot
floppy during install and it will boot fine, just not standalone (hard drive only).
Once booted (by floppy), everything works well (can read/write to hard drive
fine). I performed a disk check and it reports no errors. In addition, I
attempted to “reload” the loader, but to no avail. The first hard drive I
installed to was a 270 mb Connor hard drive and the second was a 3.3 gb
Western Digital. I know the bios options are ok because as I said earlier, the
hard drives were installed on swapped with hard drives that were previously
loaded on machines that were working fine. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Shannon Harvey
sharvey@softwareremodeling.com
Here is something to check. Boot the new machine with a floppy
and run fdisk on the hard drive. Record the disk parameters at
the bottom of the fdisk screen. Now check these parameters against
the values in the BIOS. If the BIOS is set to AUTO, then hard
code them and see what happens.
Previously, Shannon Harvey wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
I recently installed Qnx4 on 2 machines without any problems during
installation. However, during the reboot after the installation, I get to the
point where it asks to enter the Esc key for an alternate os, and it hangs.
These machines had an existing Qnx4 installation on them that was identical
to the new installation. The odd thing about this is, that I can make a boot
floppy during install and it will boot fine, just not standalone (hard drive only).
Once booted (by floppy), everything works well (can read/write to hard drive
fine). I performed a disk check and it reports no errors. In addition, I
attempted to “reload” the loader, but to no avail. The first hard drive I
installed to was a 270 mb Connor hard drive and the second was a 3.3 gb
Western Digital. I know the bios options are ok because as I said earlier, the
hard drives were installed on swapped with hard drives that were previously
loaded on machines that were working fine. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Shannon Harvey
sharvey@softwareremodeling.com
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