Charles Lawrence told me, on Oct 3, in re non support of my EIDE driver
card, Promise Ultra66 ATA66 (which turned out to be my problem, I think),
“This is a issue that they are working on right now - please monitor and
participate in our newsgroups at nntp.qnx.com and you will know as soon as
we do.”
That newsgroup seems to be a private one for “licensed” developers, but this
newsgroup should do as well.
OTOH, “Gary” has quoted a Chris Foran at qnx as saying, “At the present
time qnxrtp is not working with Promise IDE controllers. We may be
supporting these in the future.”
See the thread on Ultra66 support.
–
Russell rryost@home.com
“Russell Yost” <rryost@home.com> wrote in message
news:8rae4h$83o$1@inn.qnx.com…
Steve Tomkins > stomkins@qnx.com > tells me that my hard drive controller
card
is not supported in qnx and he doesn’t know yet when it will be
supported.
It is the Ultra ATA66; my hard drive is a 13.6 GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA. My
computer is a Gateway Performance 500 Deluxe.
–
Russell > rryost@home.com
“Russell Yost” <> rryost@home.com> > wrote in message
news:8r3vom$bil$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Now I’ve tried installing into a partition, booting with (1) CDROM in
drive
(2) boot/install floppy in its drive (3) both.
With (1) and (3) I get “Could not get drive info for /dev/hd0” I hit
ESC
to
abort.
With (2) I get same results as described below when I tried to install
into
a Win98SE /dev file.
Looks like I’m dead in the water in re qnx!
–
Russell > rryost@home.com
“Russell Yost” <> rryost@home.com> > wrote in message
news:8r3rrd$9hu$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
I’ve been having a similar problem trying to install into a Win98
Second
Edn
file. Tried “install” both from a CDROM made from qnxrtp.iso and by
executing qnxrtp.exe. Install goes ok till I reboot and get to
“scanning
for devices”. I then get
“./diskroot file for root not found on any filesystem. Starting in
safe
mode. [4102] fs-pkg built: Sep 7 2000 16:00:23. Warning
[/pkgs/base/safe-config/etc/system/package/packages ] doesn’t seem to
exist.
Can’t access package connfig file. Unable to access packages.” Then
the
keyboard locks and I must power down to “escape”.
I tried selecting mode 7, debug shell. I got nearly the same set of
error
messages, but after “Starting in safe mode.” I got “All filesystems
are
mounted but fs-pkg is not.” I exited, then, after # typed els /fs and
got
the response
cd0 cd1
(I have two ATAPI CDROM drives, one for DVD, the other a CDRW.)
I tried # els /dev and got
console cd1 cd0 tty pci kbd con4 con3 con2 con1 shmem mem zero text
null
System is Pent III 500 MHz 13 GB HD (over half available) 128 MB RAM
BIOS is PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 4W4SB0X0.15A.00B.P08
HD has LBA enabled.
Plug&Play O/S is “no” Reset Config Data is “no” (Yes is you want to
clear
the EXtended System Configuration Data (ESCD))
After rebooting into Windows, all the files mentioned in the Readme
are
in
their proper places.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Russell > rryost@home.com
“Steve Tomkins” <> stomkins@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:8qvs4i$bpp$> 1@nntp.qnx.com> …
R B Adler <> request@qnx.com> > wrote:
: Hi,
: I got the QNX RTP off the web (in both exe and iso formats). I
tried
the
: exe format first. After installing, I reboot and tried to load
QNX.
The
: spinning thing came up, I hit space and asked for verbose mode.
After
it
: timed out, it tried to load the basic package and it couldn’t find
it.
: After waiting a few seconds, it says that it couldn’t load the
package
and
: tries to run sysinit. It just stops here and doesn’t want to
continue.
I
: also tried installing from the ISO, and got the same results.
: Any ideas why it won’t load? It’s on my 2nd drive, not the
primary
one.
I
: had tried the beta before, and it worked beautifully. Now it just
doesn’t
: want to find the package(s).
Can you boot using option 7 (debug shell) and look in the
“/fs” directory using (“els” instead of “ls”) and post the
output here. Do you see the dos partition that you installed
QNX onto mounted there?
: TIA
: R B Adler
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