We have recently obtained a 96 MB flash disk drive (IDE interface)
of Silicontech make. We installed QNX 4.25 on it (with disk detected in
normal mode) using the QNX installer CD ROM. Installation was completed
successfully. We restarted the system after complete installation. It did
not boot to QNX. We connected the flash disk drive as a slave with another
QNX hard disk set as master. On mounting the flash disk drive partition, we
could observe that size of .boot and .altboot files was 0 bytes. The
filesystem of flah disk appeated to be damaged. On executing ls command for
etc, bin, usr/bin, result was junk characters instead of file lists. We
repeated the QNX installation process and could observe the same result.
What could be the problem?
Since QNX installation showed problems for our flash disk drive, we
decided that we will try to manually setup the same for use with QNX. We
used another QNX hard disk as master with flash drive connected as slave.
After booting to QNX, we executed a dinit command for the flash disk. With
flash disk mounted as a directory, we copied all the system files from
master disk to slave disk. On trying to boot from flash disk as master, we
could observe the disk boot to QNX without any error message. We ran dcheck
and chkfsys on the disk. No errors were reported…
Any idea how to make the installation work using QNX installer CD?
The install CD was intended for Host installation systems. Therefore
it doesn’t work 100% on target systems most of the time.
So it is best to install it on your host system first, or in this case
you can install it to a hard disk, then copy over the files that you
need. Once you have done this for one system, you can then use dd to
get a raw image of the flash disk and copy it to a harddrive, then when
you need to make more flash disk installs you can simply dd the image
back onto a same sized flash disk and you should be off.
We have recently obtained a 96 MB flash disk drive (IDE interface)
of Silicontech make. We installed QNX 4.25 on it (with disk detected in
normal mode) using the QNX installer CD ROM. Installation was completed
successfully. We restarted the system after complete installation. It did
not boot to QNX. We connected the flash disk drive as a slave with another
QNX hard disk set as master. On mounting the flash disk drive partition, we
could observe that size of .boot and .altboot files was 0 bytes. The
filesystem of flah disk appeated to be damaged. On executing ls command for
etc, bin, usr/bin, result was junk characters instead of file lists. We
repeated the QNX installation process and could observe the same result.
What could be the problem?
Since QNX installation showed problems for our flash disk drive, we
decided that we will try to manually setup the same for use with QNX. We
used another QNX hard disk as master with flash drive connected as slave.
After booting to QNX, we executed a dinit command for the flash disk. With
flash disk mounted as a directory, we copied all the system files from
master disk to slave disk. On trying to boot from flash disk as master, we
could observe the disk boot to QNX without any error message. We ran dcheck
and chkfsys on the disk. No errors were reported…
Any idea how to make the installation work using QNX installer CD?
On 24 Jan 2002 18:23:17 GMT, Hardware Support Account <hw@qnx.com> wrote:
Hi Krupa,
The install CD was intended for Host installation systems. Therefore
it doesn’t work 100% on target systems most of the time.
So it is best to install it on your host system first, or in this case
you can install it to a hard disk, then copy over the files that you
need. Once you have done this for one system, you can then use dd to
get a raw image of the flash disk and copy it to a harddrive, then when
you need to make more flash disk installs you can simply dd the image
back onto a same sized flash disk and you should be off.
Perhaps one day someone will write a nice utility to do this.
I don’t think it’s hard…
All menu based, click and choose what utilities to
have, etc etc.
“Alex Cellarius” <acellarius@systems104-don’t-you-spam-me!.co.za> wrote in
message news:1103_1011911124@pentiumii…
On 24 Jan 2002 18:23:17 GMT, Hardware Support Account <> hw@qnx.com> > wrote:
Hi Krupa,
The install CD was intended for Host installation systems. Therefore
it doesn’t work 100% on target systems most of the time.
So it is best to install it on your host system first, or in this case
you can install it to a hard disk, then copy over the files that you
need. Once you have done this for one system, you can then use dd to
get a raw image of the flash disk and copy it to a harddrive, then when
you need to make more flash disk installs you can simply dd the image
back onto a same sized flash disk and you should be off.
Perhaps one day someone will write a nice utility to do this.
I don’t think it’s hard…
All menu based, click and choose what utilities to
have, etc etc.
A few month ago I was told, QNX tech support staff was writing one.
Probably for QNX6 though.
I have been using the steps suggested by you for preparing a QNX
bootable 4 MB DiskonChip (on socket)
When we used the flash disk drive of 96 MB capacity with IDE interface,
we expected that it would let me install QNX as if it was a hard disk. QNX
installer also detected the disk. What is the difference between
installation on a hard disk and a flash disk with IDE interface? You have
mentioned that the CD may not work 100% on target systems but in our case
the target has an IDE interface like any other hard disk drive. Can you
please comment on this…
Why does installation process not report any error during installation?
The install CD was intended for Host installation systems. Therefore
it doesn’t work 100% on target systems most of the time.
So it is best to install it on your host system first, or in this case
you can install it to a hard disk, then copy over the files that you
need. Once you have done this for one system, you can then use dd to
get a raw image of the flash disk and copy it to a harddrive, then when
you need to make more flash disk installs you can simply dd the image
back onto a same sized flash disk and you should be off.
Take care.
Erick.
Krupa <> krupah@hotmail.com> > wrote:
We have recently obtained a 96 MB flash disk drive (IDE
interface)
of Silicontech make. We installed QNX 4.25 on it (with disk detected in
normal mode) using the QNX installer CD ROM. Installation was completed
successfully. We restarted the system after complete installation. It
did
not boot to QNX. We connected the flash disk drive as a slave with
another
QNX hard disk set as master. On mounting the flash disk drive partition,
we
could observe that size of .boot and .altboot files was 0 bytes. The
filesystem of flah disk appeated to be damaged. On executing ls command
for
etc, bin, usr/bin, result was junk characters instead of file lists. We
repeated the QNX installation process and could observe the same result.
What could be the problem?
Since QNX installation showed problems for our flash disk drive, we
decided that we will try to manually setup the same for use with QNX. We
used another QNX hard disk as master with flash drive connected as
slave.
After booting to QNX, we executed a dinit command for the flash disk.
With
flash disk mounted as a directory, we copied all the system files from
master disk to slave disk. On trying to boot from flash disk as master,
we
could observe the disk boot to QNX without any error message. We ran
dcheck
and chkfsys on the disk. No errors were reported…
Any idea how to make the installation work using QNX installer CD?
I have been using the steps suggested by you for preparing a QNX
bootable 4 MB DiskonChip (on socket)
When we used the flash disk drive of 96 MB capacity with IDE interface,
we expected that it would let me install QNX as if it was a hard disk. QNX
installer also detected the disk. What is the difference between
installation on a hard disk and a flash disk with IDE interface? You have
mentioned that the CD may not work 100% on target systems but in our case
the target has an IDE interface like any other hard disk drive. Can you
please comment on this…
Why does installation process not report any error during installation?
The install CD was intended for Host installation systems. Therefore
it doesn’t work 100% on target systems most of the time.
So it is best to install it on your host system first, or in this case
you can install it to a hard disk, then copy over the files that you
need. Once you have done this for one system, you can then use dd to
get a raw image of the flash disk and copy it to a harddrive, then when
you need to make more flash disk installs you can simply dd the image
back onto a same sized flash disk and you should be off.
Take care.
Erick.
Krupa <> krupah@hotmail.com> > wrote:
We have recently obtained a 96 MB flash disk drive (IDE
interface)
of Silicontech make. We installed QNX 4.25 on it (with disk detected in
normal mode) using the QNX installer CD ROM. Installation was completed
successfully. We restarted the system after complete installation. It
did
not boot to QNX. We connected the flash disk drive as a slave with
another
QNX hard disk set as master. On mounting the flash disk drive partition,
we
could observe that size of .boot and .altboot files was 0 bytes. The
filesystem of flah disk appeated to be damaged. On executing ls command
for
etc, bin, usr/bin, result was junk characters instead of file lists. We
repeated the QNX installation process and could observe the same result.
What could be the problem?
Since QNX installation showed problems for our flash disk drive, we
decided that we will try to manually setup the same for use with QNX. We
used another QNX hard disk as master with flash drive connected as
slave.
After booting to QNX, we executed a dinit command for the flash disk.
With
flash disk mounted as a directory, we copied all the system files from
master disk to slave disk. On trying to boot from flash disk as master,
we
could observe the disk boot to QNX without any error message. We ran
dcheck
and chkfsys on the disk. No errors were reported…
Any idea how to make the installation work using QNX installer CD?
We have recently obtained a 96 MB flash disk drive (IDE interface)
of Silicontech make. We installed QNX 4.25 on it (with disk detected in
normal mode) using the QNX installer CD ROM. Installation was completed
successfully. We restarted the system after complete installation. It did
not boot to QNX. We connected the flash disk drive as a slave with another
QNX hard disk set as master. On mounting the flash disk drive partition, we
could observe that size of .boot and .altboot files was 0 bytes. The
filesystem of flah disk appeated to be damaged. On executing ls command for
etc, bin, usr/bin, result was junk characters instead of file lists. We
repeated the QNX installation process and could observe the same result.
What could be the problem?
I had something similar. I used 48M flash, and installation was ok,
and even booting, mostly. All drivers started, etc, but just before
one would expect login-prompt it says ‘cannot execute /bin/sh’.
Have tried installation with two different pc’s, same results. Same
pc’s install everything ok to HD. And copying from HD to flash,
everything is fine.
After updating OS (from .tar packages from qnx ftp site) to flash
problem was exactly same ‘cannot execute /bin/sh’. I’ve reported bug
to qnx BTS, but haven’t heard anything from it. Do QNX people normally
contact bug reporters, I haven’t got any e-mail althou I’ve reported
maybe 10 different bugs.
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