newbie q: help with boot image

Greetings all.

I am sure this has been answered countless times, but I cannot find it so I
will venture a repeated question.

I am reviewing the Building Embedded Systems docs and in the [building a
Neutrino system image] section it mentions the startup-* files (in
particular the startup-bios image for an x86). It says they are in the
boards directory under /usr/src/nto/startup. However, my installed system
does not have the nto directory. Are these files only available as part of
a purchased SDK installation or can you create a floppy or FLASH bootable
image from the free downloaded RTP system (yes, I know it is only free for
non-commerical products - I am only evaluating at this point :slight_smile:

Am I missing something or does the RTP NOT include all of the necessary
files to create an embedded system to fully evaluate without having to
purchase additional products, SDK’s, etc. I thought the whole intent of
making it available free was to allow a full test drive without committing
any $$$.

If someone could please shed some light on this I would very much appreciate
it!

Mark

It should be in /boot/sys. The /usr/src/nto would be on QNX4 system if
you bought that for cross-development and it would contain source for
those modules in case you need to modify it. Normally you don’t.

  • igor

Mark Ford wrote:

Greetings all.

I am sure this has been answered countless times, but I cannot find it so I
will venture a repeated question.

I am reviewing the Building Embedded Systems docs and in the [building a
Neutrino system image] section it mentions the startup-* files (in
particular the startup-bios image for an x86). It says they are in the
boards directory under /usr/src/nto/startup. However, my installed system
does not have the nto directory. Are these files only available as part of
a purchased SDK installation or can you create a floppy or FLASH bootable
image from the free downloaded RTP system (yes, I know it is only free for
non-commerical products - I am only evaluating at this point > :slight_smile:

Am I missing something or does the RTP NOT include all of the necessary
files to create an embedded system to fully evaluate without having to
purchase additional products, SDK’s, etc. I thought the whole intent of
making it available free was to allow a full test drive without committing
any $$$.

If someone could please shed some light on this I would very much appreciate
it!

Mark