Boot Stall fm 2nd HD

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Hi,

I’ve recently downloaded the ISO image and built a bootable CD, I was able
to install from the CD to my 2nd hardrive, 1st Partition (600) MB.

When I attempt to boot I get the following:

Press Esc…" followed by about half a line of …'s, then it just hangs.
The drive access LED is on, but nothing happens.

Tried pressing Esc to load the non-dma version - same thing.

I have read one post on here that states qnxrtp WONT boot from the 2nd hard
drive. Can anyone verify this statement?

Please reply via email as well as posting:

gnome@hiwaay.net

Thank you

Terry Bayne

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Please read…


url: http://qdn.qnx.com/report/problemlist.txt

Previously, Terry Bayne wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:

Boot problems/Problems with Boot loaders:
Installation to extended partitions fail, installations to non-primary drives
fail. Typically this results in seeing error messages, "Package manager: Can’t open package
qnxbase…"Solution is to rearrange your file systems Install on a primary
drive and not to any extended partitions. If installing into Windows filesystem,
only FAT and FAT32 are supported, not NTFS.
You may also want to try disabling DMA for the EIDE controller, this can’t be
done when the boot message, “Press space for boot options” appears. This
can prevent some booting problems on some systems.
IDE cards such as the Promise Ultra66 and Ultra33 are not currently
supported. Software BIOS extensions to allow large hard disks, such as
Western Digital EZ-BIOS, and OnTrack Diskmanager are not supported.

  • Hi,
  • I’ve recently downloaded the ISO image and built a bootable CD, I was able
  • to install from the CD to my 2nd hardrive, 1st Partition (600) MB.
  • When I attempt to boot I get the following:
  • Press Esc…" followed by about half a line of …'s, then it just hangs.
  • The drive access LED is on, but nothing happens.
  • Tried pressing Esc to load the non-dma version - same thing.
  • I have read one post on here that states qnxrtp WONT boot from the 2nd hard
  • drive. Can anyone verify this statement?
  • Please reply via email as well as posting:
  • gnome@hiwaay.net
  • Thank you
  • Terry Bayne

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Chaz,

Charles Lawrence

QNX Software Systems
Kanata Ontario