Is it or is it not possible to boot from a secondary master hard drive
with qnx4.25
I have a dual boot partition (Dos and qnx) with the qnx boot loader and
have no problems booting to either partition when I configure everything
as the primary master. But when I reconfigure everything as a secondary
master, I can only boot from DOS.
I get the following message:
Starting QNX
No adapters found.
I’ve read through and tried changing my sysinit file to reference hd1
everywhere
instead of hd0 as well as changing and recompiling the .boot file so
that
the fsys.eide command references hd1 (shown below)
/bin/Fsys.eide
$ /bin/Fsys.eide fsys -Ndsk1 -n0=hd1. eide -a1f0 -i14 -c15,8944,63,1
/bin/mount
$ /bin/mount -p /dev/hd1.0 /dev/hd1.0t77
Even with the above settings, it boots up on the Primary master but not
the
Secondary master.
According to the QNX knowledge base Ref 3955
http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?3955
it says the following:
Note: BIOS only allows bootable partitions on fd0 and hd0, if you
insist on
installing QNX on another drive you must have a loader that can handle
other
drives, use a boot floppy, or set up a small 2Meg partition where you
can put the
bootable image which will mount the second hard-drive as /.
The QNX loader can not handle booting off of other drives!
I want to be able to do this in case my primary drive fails.
Is there anyway to configure it without a boot floppy or a primary
master (hd0)?
TIA
Cedar Mah
Lacent Technoloies Inc.
cmah@lacent.com