I also don’t know how to attach a text file with Forte Free Agent, so
I’ll include it here…
How to create a licensed QNX4 boot floppy.
Get a fresh 720K or higher floppy.
At least 720k will be required for this.
We will assume: - you are superuser (root)
- the floppy is a 720K in drive A (/dev/fd0)
- the node we wish to make a boot floppy for is node
10
Make sure that Fsys is running,
Fsys.floppy is running,
the floppy is mounted as a QNX filesystem.
Fsys &
Fsys.floppy &
mount /dev/fd0 /fd0 #for first floppy
Format the floppy.
fdformat -s720 /dev/fd0
Dinit the floppy.
dinit /dev/fd0
Now let’s look at the boot image.
You should have a file called ‘floppy’ in /boot/build. Edit this
file.
The default one looks something like:
sys/Proc
$ 9500 Proc -p 30 -f 8 16 240 -n 10 -s 10 -t 6
sys/Slib
$ 1 Slib
/bin/Fsys
$ 2000 fsys -f 10 -i 20 -l 0 -c 40 -r 24
/bin/Fsys.floppy
$ 1000 Fsys.floppy
/bin/mount
$ 1000 mount /dev/fd0 / -r
/bin/sinit
$ 1000 sinit TERM=qnx
You can customize any way you want with some special exceptions. I
changed this file and
saved the following data as ‘floppyb’:
sys/Proc
$ 38000 Proc -l 10
sys/Slib
$ 1 Slib
/bin/Fsys
$ 16000 Fsys -r 300
/bin/Fsys.floppy
$ 1000 Fsys.floppy
/bin/mount
$ 1000 mount /dev/fd0 /
/bin/sinit
$ 1000 sinit TERM=qnx
Notice the following:
- I added a -l 10 option to Proc.
A BOOT FLOPPY IS SPECIFIC TO THE NODE IT IS BOOTING!!
i.e. This floppy will only boot node 10 into the network.
- I removed the -r option on the mount (this makes the filesystem R/W
not just READ-ONLY)
- I changed other options to more closely follow the ‘hard’ build
file.
- I added a 300K ramdisk in case I need it later.
Make an image based on this build file (floppyb)
cd /boot
make b=floppyb
You will now have a file called floppyb in /boot/images.
Copy this to the floppy
cp -v /boot/images/floppyb /fd0/.boot
Now let’s add licensing to the floppy. Run the following command to
copy your license
information to the floppy (the harddisk where you boot will not be
affected).
In this example, I will assume the node where the license files are is
prefixed as ‘/’.
It could be anywhere, even across the net …
e.g. //35/etc/licenses
mkdir -p /fd0/etc/licenses
license /etc/licenses /fd0/etc/licenses
Check for the license files on the floppy, they should be there.
ls -lF /fd0/etc/licenses
Now, copy all the programs required to boot from the floppy. Here is a
list of what you
will need at a minimum:
/fd0:
.altboot
.bitmap
.boot
.inodes
bin/
etc/
/fd0/bin:
Dev*
Dev.con*
login*
mount*
netmap*
prefix*
ksh*
tinit*
/fd0/etc/config:
sysinit
/fd0/etc/licenses:
Your license files that were copied over previously.
You will need a sysinit.node# file on the floppy in /etc/config.
Here is an example:
TZ=utc00
rtc -l hw
Dev &
Dev.con -n 4 &
reopen
emu87 &
tinit -t /dev/con1 -T /dev/con[2-4] &
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:33:34 GMT, Ray.LaBrecque@gretagimaging.com (Ray
LaBrecque) wrote:
Ok, here’s where I have to 'fess up… I use QNX 4.xx not RTP, so I
can’t give you an exact procedure, but I can attach a text file I got
from QDN or QUICS sometime back… Just remember it is QNX 4.xx
based… You may want to take the time to go to the QNX/RTP docs…
BOL…
Ray L.
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:13:41 -0600, “James Van Buskirk”
torsop@ix.netcom.com> > wrote:
Ray LaBrecque wrote in message <> 3b4de3a2.24629735@inn.qnx.com> >…
Create a QNX bootable floppy with fdisk on it.
Boot to that floppy then use fdisk to select the ‘active’ partition to
boot to.
I used that method before I purchased boot majic.
Thanks. The rest of the world seems to be all messed up
temporarily, so it doesn’t matter that my PC is, too, just now.
However I’m kind of clueless about how to achieve this. Do you
think you could give a set of step-by-step instructions so I
could do this without going over all the documentation? Could
I do this via booting from the QNX CD-ROM or in QNX itself
(which I am currently booting to?)
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