Hello,
We are trying to install the QNX 4.25 on a embedded PC104+ Pentium
266Mhz with a EIDE SunDisk of 32 MBytes. The supplier is JumpTEC (model
Mops6).
We haven’t achieved to create an OS image to boot the system using a
floppy disk. During the boot process a sequence of infinite dots appear
in the screen and it seems never stops.
We have seen in this newsgroup a message from James Gober reporting
a similar problem but it seems that a solution was not pointed out. As
he said, we can boot the system using the installation floppy from QNX.
The only difference we have noticed is that this floppy uses the boot
loader v2.0. Is there any chance to obtain or use this loader for our
own images?
We have also tested the QNX 6 and we can boot the system
successfully, so we think the root of the problem is the boot loader
version used in QNX4. However, we cannot use version 6 of QNX because we
must use a graphics card from Imagenation (PXC200) and libraries for
this card are only available for version 4 of QNX.
Is there anyone who can help us? We are in a hurry!
Thank you in advance
We battled this same problem for a few days before discovering that
the JUMPtec board won’t boot with the newest QNX boot loader. Install
the old boot loader on the floppy and it will probably work. IIRC,
use dinit with the -O option to install the old boot loader (look
at dinit usage first to verify).
Previously, Jordi Pages wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Hello,
We are trying to install the QNX 4.25 on a embedded PC104+ Pentium
266Mhz with a EIDE SunDisk of 32 MBytes. The supplier is JumpTEC (model
Mops6).
We haven’t achieved to create an OS image to boot the system using a
floppy disk. During the boot process a sequence of infinite dots appear
in the screen and it seems never stops.
We have seen in this newsgroup a message from James Gober reporting
a similar problem but it seems that a solution was not pointed out. As
he said, we can boot the system using the installation floppy from QNX.
The only difference we have noticed is that this floppy uses the boot
loader v2.0. Is there any chance to obtain or use this loader for our
own images?
We have also tested the QNX 6 and we can boot the system
successfully, so we think the root of the problem is the boot loader
version used in QNX4. However, we cannot use version 6 of QNX because we
must use a graphics card from Imagenation (PXC200) and libraries for
this card are only available for version 4 of QNX.
Is there anyone who can help us? We are in a hurry!
Thank you in advance
We have already tried to use the old version of the boot loader (dinit -O
option) but it either works
Thanks anyway
Ken Schumm wrote:
We battled this same problem for a few days before discovering that
the JUMPtec board won’t boot with the newest QNX boot loader. Install
the old boot loader on the floppy and it will probably work. IIRC,
use dinit with the -O option to install the old boot loader (look
at dinit usage first to verify).
Previously, Jordi Pages wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Hello,
We are trying to install the QNX 4.25 on a embedded PC104+ Pentium
266Mhz with a EIDE SunDisk of 32 MBytes. The supplier is JumpTEC (model
Mops6).
We haven’t achieved to create an OS image to boot the system using a
floppy disk. During the boot process a sequence of infinite dots appear
in the screen and it seems never stops.
We have seen in this newsgroup a message from James Gober reporting
a similar problem but it seems that a solution was not pointed out. As
he said, we can boot the system using the installation floppy from QNX.
The only difference we have noticed is that this floppy uses the boot
loader v2.0. Is there any chance to obtain or use this loader for our
own images?
We have also tested the QNX 6 and we can boot the system
successfully, so we think the root of the problem is the boot loader
version used in QNX4. However, we cannot use version 6 of QNX because we
must use a graphics card from Imagenation (PXC200) and libraries for
this card are only available for version 4 of QNX.
Is there anyone who can help us? We are in a hurry!
Thank you in advance
Jordi Pages <JPages@silver.udg.es> wrote:
We have already tried to use the old version of the boot loader (dinit -O
option) but it either works
Perhaps the boot disk was made incorrectly, check out your steps and the
ones detailed in http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?5718
You could also try (just as a experiment) the quiet boot loaders available
in the free software section at http://www.qnx.com/cgi-bin/dir_find.cgi?/usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/
-Adam
amallory@qnx.com