booting a QNX4 partition located >8G

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I have a customer with the problem that they installed
Windows on a 20GB HDD, in a 10GB partition.
QNX 425 D (I think) installed ok after that, but won’t boot.
Is there anythng else to try other than to move the
partition to < 8,4GB, or to upgrade to the
lastest QNX 425?

Thanks for any ideas

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acellarius@yahoo.com wrote:

I have a customer with the problem that they installed
Windows on a 20GB HDD, in a 10GB partition.
QNX 425 D (I think) installed ok after that, but won’t boot.
Is there anythng else to try other than to move the
partition to < 8,4GB, or to upgrade to the
lastest QNX 425?

Try grabbing the QNX6 primary loader and using that?

The QNX4 may still do the bios calls that can only handle up to
8G worth of disk addressing, the QNX6 primary loader should
work better.

You may be able to do this by just booting & running from the
QNX6 cd and using “fdisk boot” command to write the loader.

Hm…could probably even be done from an ISO of 6.2NC downloaded
and burned to CD.

-David

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On 11 Mar 2003 22:15:49 GMT, David Gibbs <dagibbs@qnx.com> wrote:

acellarius@yahoo.com > wrote:
I have a customer with the problem that they installed
Windows on a 20GB HDD, in a 10GB partition.
QNX 425 D (I think) installed ok after that, but won’t boot.
Is there anythng else to try other than to move the
partition to < 8,4GB, or to upgrade to the
lastest QNX 425?

Try grabbing the QNX6 primary loader and using that?

The QNX4 may still do the bios calls that can only handle up to
8G worth of disk addressing, the QNX6 primary loader should
work better.

You may be able to do this by just booting & running from the
QNX6 cd and using “fdisk boot” command to write the loader.

Hm…could probably even be done from an ISO of 6.2NC downloaded
and burned to CD.

Thanks David, will give it a try.