Problems with large hard drives

I have a special boot loader that allows my bios to see my whole hard drive.
The boot loader does not allow qnx to mount the hard drive so it can boot.
Is there a patch, or a way to get around this problem?

Steve

Previously, Steve wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:

I have a special boot loader that allows my bios to see my whole hard drive.
The boot loader does not allow qnx to mount the hard drive so it can boot.
Is there a patch, or a way to get around this problem?

Steve

I assume you are refering to software such as Western Digital EZ-BIOS and
Quantum On-Track Diskmanager, that often come with a new drive. I’m not
sure exactly how these things work but I suspect you will not be able to
get QNX to work with them. Something you may want to consider doing is
getting a software bios upgade. Go to the manufacturer’s web site and
get the new bios and software. You boot of a dos floppy and use the utility
to re-flash the bios. Then you won’t need any hard disk geometry translation.
It means you have to repartion, reformat and reinstall everything on your
disk. Also if something goes wrong during the flash process (power goes out
or something) you’ll have to buy a new chip.

To avoid having to re-install everything, maybe a backup program like
DriveImage could copy your existing setup to an image file? I’m not sure
though… if it can, I am sure you’d have to boot the disk-manager first,
then the DriveImage program. Otherwise D.I. will see a partition of an
unknown type.


“Chris Foran” <cforan@qnx.com> wrote in message
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Previously, Steve wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:

I have a special boot loader that allows my bios to see my whole hard
drive.
The boot loader does not allow qnx to mount the hard drive so it can boot.
Is there a patch, or a way to get around this problem?

Steve

I assume you are refering to software such as Western Digital EZ-BIOS and
Quantum On-Track Diskmanager, that often come with a new drive. I’m not
sure exactly how these things work but I suspect you will not be able to
get QNX to work with them. Something you may want to consider doing is
getting a software bios upgade. Go to the manufacturer’s web site and
get the new bios and software. You boot of a dos floppy and use the utility
to re-flash the bios. Then you won’t need any hard disk geometry
translation.
It means you have to repartion, reformat and reinstall everything on your
disk. Also if something goes wrong during the flash process (power goes out
or something) you’ll have to buy a new chip.