I was curious to know if anyone has run into trouble with Fsys not
recognizing large drives. With the latest Fsys driver, I installed QNX4 on
a 30gig partition and went to start it up and it said the operating system
was missing. Tried it again on a 20gig partition and QNX came up just fine.
Anyone seen anything like this?
Shawn McNamara <smcnamara@toptech.com> wrote:
I was curious to know if anyone has run into trouble with Fsys not
recognizing large drives. With the latest Fsys driver, I installed QNX4 on
a 30gig partition and went to start it up and it said the operating system
was missing. Tried it again on a 20gig partition and QNX came up just fine.
Anyone seen anything like this?
I’ve used it on a 120G without too much grief. I partitioned it as
1G/1G/1G/127G.
Cheers,
-RK
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Shawn McNamara <smcnamara@toptech.com> wrote:
I was curious to know if anyone has run into trouble with Fsys not
recognizing large drives. With the latest Fsys driver, I installed QNX4 on
a 30gig partition and went to start it up and it said the operating system
was missing. Tried it again on a 20gig partition and QNX came up just fine.
Anyone seen anything like this?
Hi,
Problem is not size of hardisk, but count of cylinders (PROBABLY).
QNX4 can boot from partition up to 1023 cylinder.
However you can overcome this limit by creating small partintion 78,
covering e.g. first two cylinders during installation of 77 (which
yoy install absolutely normally) and then you lanuch
dinit -h /dev/hd0t78
mount /dev/hd0t78 /hd
cp /.boot /hd/.boot
cp /.altboot /hd/.altboot
and through fdisk make this 78 partition bootable.
Both .boot and .altboot are normal as for usual booting from 77.
In this way you can boot up 77.
Another posibility may be is usage of another loader.
You have probably used QNX Loader (btw. if you are using QNX Loader
on system with more OS, and you somatime miss pressing of intended
partition key, download setloader utility from our webpage)
Andy