Apologies if this is question that has been asked in the past but I am a
relative newcomer to QNX and need a bit of help. I am trying to install QNX
4.25 on a Win2K machine with a EIDE 10Gb LBA drive (approx), split into 4
partitions. I have a 2Gb partition reserved for QNX at the start of the
drive so the 1023 cylinders problem isn’t an issue. Unfortunately, the QNX
installer dislikes the partition table as there are apparently more
sectors/clusters in the windows partition than can fit on the disk as
Fsys.eide/Fdisk sees it. I can only get it to see the first 8Gb approx of
the full drive capacity. I have tried using the Fsys.ata and Fsys.ide driver
options, specifying drive details etc, but I cannot get QNX to see the full
drive.
I have heard that creating a 4.25D boot disk may help but I am unsure of the
procedure (a QNX manual I have gave me information on how to this but the
resulting disk wouldn’t boot properly, complaining of missing system files -
which ones it didn’t say).
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated,
Ronnie Bridges
A quick explanation: You need a newer /bin/Fsys.eide for either the
boot floppy/CD and/or the installation tarball. If you are installing
via a CD I have no simple sugesstions. If you are installing from a
floopy, copy the newer Fsys.eide to /bin on the floppy. If there
isn’t enough room, get rid of unneeded SCSI driver(s). To do this, you
need the newer Fsys.eide and a working QNX system.
Once the installation is complete, the new QNX partition will likely
have the wrong driver, so before rebooting, you should cp Fsys.eide
from the boot floppy to the the hard drive /bin, then
cd /boot
rm images/
make b=
cp images/ /.boot
Richard
Ronnie Bridges wrote:
Apologies if this is question that has been asked in the past but I am a
relative newcomer to QNX and need a bit of help. I am trying to install QNX
4.25 on a Win2K machine with a EIDE 10Gb LBA drive (approx), split into 4
partitions. I have a 2Gb partition reserved for QNX at the start of the
drive so the 1023 cylinders problem isn’t an issue. Unfortunately, the QNX
installer dislikes the partition table as there are apparently more
sectors/clusters in the windows partition than can fit on the disk as
Fsys.eide/Fdisk sees it. I can only get it to see the first 8Gb approx of
the full drive capacity. I have tried using the Fsys.ata and Fsys.ide driver
options, specifying drive details etc, but I cannot get QNX to see the full
drive.
I have heard that creating a 4.25D boot disk may help but I am unsure of the
procedure (a QNX manual I have gave me information on how to this but the
resulting disk wouldn’t boot properly, complaining of missing system files -
which ones it didn’t say).
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated,
Ronnie Bridges
That worked a treat. Many thanks for your help.
Ronnie Bridges
“Richard Kramer” <rrkramer@kramer-smilko.com> wrote in message
news:3CBF583B.2CD63C75@kramer-smilko.com…
A quick explanation: You need a newer /bin/Fsys.eide for either the
boot floppy/CD and/or the installation tarball. If you are installing
via a CD I have no simple sugesstions. If you are installing from a
floopy, copy the newer Fsys.eide to /bin on the floppy. If there
isn’t enough room, get rid of unneeded SCSI driver(s). To do this, you
need the newer Fsys.eide and a working QNX system.
Once the installation is complete, the new QNX partition will likely
have the wrong driver, so before rebooting, you should cp Fsys.eide
from the boot floppy to the the hard drive /bin, then
cd /boot
rm images/<boot image file name
make b=<image file name
cp images/ /.boot
Richard
Ronnie Bridges wrote:
Apologies if this is question that has been asked in the past but I am a
relative newcomer to QNX and need a bit of help. I am trying to install
QNX
4.25 on a Win2K machine with a EIDE 10Gb LBA drive (approx), split into
4
partitions. I have a 2Gb partition reserved for QNX at the start of the
drive so the 1023 cylinders problem isn’t an issue. Unfortunately, the
QNX
installer dislikes the partition table as there are apparently more
sectors/clusters in the windows partition than can fit on the disk as
Fsys.eide/Fdisk sees it. I can only get it to see the first 8Gb approx
of
the full drive capacity. I have tried using the Fsys.ata and Fsys.ide
driver
options, specifying drive details etc, but I cannot get QNX to see the
full
drive.
I have heard that creating a 4.25D boot disk may help but I am unsure of
the
procedure (a QNX manual I have gave me information on how to this but
the
resulting disk wouldn’t boot properly, complaining of missing system
files -
which ones it didn’t say).
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated,
Ronnie Bridges