I’ve got problems with installing QNX 6.3.0 on my PC. The following message appears before it reboots the PC:

[code]Please enter the disk you would like to install QNX Neutrino on.
The disk must be bootable from your BIOS.

Disk Device Type Size Heads Sectors Cylinders
Could not get drive info for /dev/hd0.
Continue (Enter)?
Partition installation aborted!
Please remove the installation media, then reboot your machine.[/code]
Then it reboots. (I pressed Enter when it asked for)
The LiveCD doesn’t have any problems with accessing my hdd. All fat partitions can be mounted.

What’s wrong?

Hi,

Some questions that might help us answering your question. What kind of drive are you using, SATA maybe or just a standard ATA drive using the 40 pin cable…

Cheers,
Freddy

I’m using 2 standard ide drives. Hd0 has 120 gb and Hd1 has 80 gb. Some time ago i’ve installed an older version of Qnx on Hd0 without problems.

Maybe you can try a “forced installation”?

openqnx.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t2569-.html

I’ve played around with the settings after pressing space-bar at the boot prompt
(Force install, disable some drivers etc.)with no effort. It does not recognise my
hd!!! But when i boot into the live-cd i can acess my fat-partitions on hd1 without problems
Qnx is good, but not for me
Pls help. Thx Peat

when you boot into the live-cd, can you run

fdisk /dev/hd0 info
fdisk /dev/hd0 show

and post the results here.

OK here is what i get for my 2 harddiscs:

fdisk /dev/hd0 info

Physical disk characteristics: (/dev/hd0)
Disk type : Direct Access (0)
Cylinders : 14596
Heads : 255
Sectors/Track : 63
Total Sectors : 234493056

Warning: total sectors field does not agree with
cylinderssectors/trackheads!! (234493056 vs 234484740)

Partition table information:
0: (11) beg(h=1,s=1,c=0) end(h=254,s=63,c=130) off=63, size=2104452
1: (15) beg(h=0,s=193,c=9) end(h=254,s=255,c=255) off=12482505, size=2220022
35
2: (0) beg(h=0,s=0,c=0) end(h=0,s=0,c=0) off=0, size=0
3: (0) beg(h=0,s=0,c=0) end(h=0,s=0,c=0) off=0, size=0
signature1=0x55, signature2=0xAA

fdisk /dev/hd0 show

OS Start End Number Size Boot
name type Cylinder Cylinder Cylinders Blocks

1. FAT32 11 0 130 130 2104452 1027 MB *
2. Extd’d 15 777 14595 13818 222002235 108399 MB

3. ---

4. ---

fdisk /dev/hd1 info

Physical disk characteristics: (/dev/hd1)
Disk type : Direct Access (0)
Cylinders : 9733
Heads : 255
Sectors/Track : 63
Total Sectors : 156368016

Warning: total sectors field does not agree with
cylinderssectors/trackheads!! (156368016 vs 156360645)

Partition table information:
0: (6) beg(h=1,s=1,c=0) end(h=254,s=63,c=31) off=63, size=514017
1: (0) beg(h=0,s=0,c=0) end(h=0,s=0,c=0) off=0, size=0
2: (15) beg(h=0,s=1,c=75) end(h=254,s=255,c=255) off=1204875, size=155155770

3: (0) beg(h=0,s=0,c=0) end(h=0,s=0,c=0) off=0, size=0

signature1=0x55, signature2=0xAA

fdisk /dev/hd1 show

OS Start End Number Size Boot
name type Cylinder Cylinder Cylinders Blocks

1. DOS 6 0 31 31 514017 250 MB *

2. ---

3. Extd’d 15 75 9732 9657 155155770 75759 MB

4. ---

Looks like QNX’s fdisk is confused about your disk geometry/size. As discussed in the below thread, QNX fdisk is brain dead. Hopefully, you can use fdisk from another OS and get it work:
openqnx.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t3212-.html

manual install works for me!!!
it must be an fdisk problem.