Dell Inspiron dual-boot

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I have a Dell Inspiron with XP Pro installed, on a 60 gb hard drive. I used
Partition Magic to create a 1 gb partition at the beginning of the drive,
and installed QNX on it. When I tried to boot, the QNX loader got to two
periods (…), and then died. If I tried to boot the XP partition, it got
partway into Windows, and then also hung. When I used the Partition Magic
rescue disk to change the active partition to the XP partition, then XP
would boot, but making QNX active again still failed the same way. I can
make XP boot reliably now, but QNX won’t. QNX comes up fine, and sees the
QNX partition just fine, if I use the boot floppy created during the OS
installation.

Any ideas, comments, suggestions?

Thanks,

Kevin

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I’m having the same problem - Any answers please.

Thanks Martin.

“Kevin Miller” <kevin.miller@transcore.com> wrote in message
news:amrflp$868$1@inn.qnx.com…

I have a Dell Inspiron with XP Pro installed, on a 60 gb hard drive. I
used
Partition Magic to create a 1 gb partition at the beginning of the drive,
and installed QNX on it. When I tried to boot, the QNX loader got to two
periods (…), and then died. If I tried to boot the XP partition, it got
partway into Windows, and then also hung. When I used the Partition Magic
rescue disk to change the active partition to the XP partition, then XP
would boot, but making QNX active again still failed the same way. I can
make XP boot reliably now, but QNX won’t. QNX comes up fine, and sees the
QNX partition just fine, if I use the boot floppy created during the OS
installation.

Any ideas, comments, suggestions?

Thanks,

Kevin

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Try a different loader lilo for example. I know of some machine “Toshiba”
that for some reason are not compatible with the QNX4 loader.

“Martin Rose” <gy999999999@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:an02hl$lqn$1@inn.qnx.com…

I’m having the same problem - Any answers please.

Thanks Martin.

“Kevin Miller” <> kevin.miller@transcore.com> > wrote in message
news:amrflp$868$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
I have a Dell Inspiron with XP Pro installed, on a 60 gb hard drive. I
used
Partition Magic to create a 1 gb partition at the beginning of the
drive,
and installed QNX on it. When I tried to boot, the QNX loader got to two
periods (…), and then died. If I tried to boot the XP partition, it got
partway into Windows, and then also hung. When I used the Partition
Magic
rescue disk to change the active partition to the XP partition, then XP
would boot, but making QNX active again still failed the same way. I can
make XP boot reliably now, but QNX won’t. QNX comes up fine, and sees
the
QNX partition just fine, if I use the boot floppy created during the OS
installation.

Any ideas, comments, suggestions?

Thanks,

Kevin
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Mario Charest wrote:

Try a different loader lilo for example. I know of some machine “Toshiba”
that for some reason are not compatible with the QNX4 loader.

“Martin Rose” <> gy999999999@hotmail.com> > wrote in message
news:an02hl$lqn$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
I’m having the same problem - Any answers please.

Thanks Martin.

“Kevin Miller” <> kevin.miller@transcore.com> > wrote in message
news:amrflp$868$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
I have a Dell Inspiron with XP Pro installed, on a 60 gb hard drive. I
used
Partition Magic to create a 1 gb partition at the beginning of the
drive,
and installed QNX on it. When I tried to boot, the QNX loader got to two
periods (…), and then died. If I tried to boot the XP partition, it got
partway into Windows, and then also hung. When I used the Partition
Magic
rescue disk to change the active partition to the XP partition, then XP
would boot, but making QNX active again still failed the same way. I can
make XP boot reliably now, but QNX won’t. QNX comes up fine, and sees
the
QNX partition just fine, if I use the boot floppy created during the OS
installation.

Any ideas, comments, suggestions?

Thanks,

Kevin




Sorry for the late response on this thread but we were buried with work

at the time and I am just now trying to catch up on the newsgroup.

We have a similar problem with Latitude 840C laptops. As the three
laptops arrived, they worked OK; I can triple boot using BootMagic (QNX,
Linux, Win2K). However, we installed a BIOS update (on two of them) and
QNX will no longer boot from the hard drive, whether from BootMagic or
if I install QNX’s loader on the MBR; QNX will boot from the floppy. The
non-updated BIOS laptop still works fine.

To my annoyance, we can’t get the BIOS to downgrade. The original was
A02 and the upgrade was to A06. When I try to install A02, the messages
say that it installed but there is no change; it is still A06. I have
not yet found the connection into Dell that can help me out.

Hence, we too need to know what is going on.

Best Regards

Mackay Foster

New York Air Brake
Train-Dynamics Systems
8912 Oak Grove Road
Fort Worth, TX 76140
Phone 1-817-615-0003
Fax 1-817-293-0227
mailto:mfoster@nyab.com
http://www.nyab.com

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Found the later thread on the Inspiron 8200 boot. Hugh Brown’s
suggestion to use the old boot loader worked on the Latitude 840’s as
well. They now triple boot without problem.



Mackay Foster wrote:

Mario Charest wrote:

Try a different loader lilo for example. I know of some machine “Toshiba”
that for some reason are not compatible with the QNX4 loader.

“Martin Rose” <> gy999999999@hotmail.com> > wrote in message
news:an02hl$lqn$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
I’m having the same problem - Any answers please.

Thanks Martin.

“Kevin Miller” <> kevin.miller@transcore.com> > wrote in message
news:amrflp$868$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
I have a Dell Inspiron with XP Pro installed, on a 60 gb hard drive. I
used
Partition Magic to create a 1 gb partition at the beginning of the
drive,
and installed QNX on it. When I tried to boot, the QNX loader got to two
periods (…), and then died. If I tried to boot the XP partition, it got
partway into Windows, and then also hung. When I used the Partition
Magic
rescue disk to change the active partition to the XP partition, then XP
would boot, but making QNX active again still failed the same way. I can
make XP boot reliably now, but QNX won’t. QNX comes up fine, and sees
the
QNX partition just fine, if I use the boot floppy created during the OS
installation.

Any ideas, comments, suggestions?

Thanks,

Kevin




Sorry for the late response on this thread but we were buried with work
at the time and I am just now trying to catch up on the newsgroup.

We have a similar problem with Latitude 840C laptops. As the three
laptops arrived, they worked OK; I can triple boot using BootMagic (QNX,
Linux, Win2K). However, we installed a BIOS update (on two of them) and
QNX will no longer boot from the hard drive, whether from BootMagic or
if I install QNX’s loader on the MBR; QNX will boot from the floppy. The
non-updated BIOS laptop still works fine.

To my annoyance, we can’t get the BIOS to downgrade. The original was
A02 and the upgrade was to A06. When I try to install A02, the messages
say that it installed but there is no change; it is still A06. I have
not yet found the connection into Dell that can help me out.

Hence, we too need to know what is going on.

Best Regards

Mackay Foster

Best Regards

Mackay Foster