I was wondering what is the best way to “clone” a
QNX IDE boot flash disk. They are just an IDE interface,
so they can be treated as a (small) hard drive.
Unfortunately, they are sometimes differently sized
(32MB vs 48MB, etc.)
I’ve done the following, but this just gives question
marks instead of periods when booting:
- Boot from floppy.
- Mount network.
- Mount original IDE flash.
- Copy flash to network.
- Shutdown and install new IDE flash.
- Boot from floppy.
- fdisk new flash.
dinit new flash.
- Mount network.
- Mount new IDE flash.
- Copy network files to new IDE flash.
- Reboot.
Obiviously I’ve missed an important step in there somewhere. I
made just one QNX partition and it was marked bootable…
(This is on an x86 PC/104 board, but that shouldn’t matter much.)
Thanks!
Kevin Radke
“Kevin Radke” <kradke@dsi-inc.net> wrote in message
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I was wondering what is the best way to “clone” a
QNX IDE boot flash disk. They are just an IDE interface,
so they can be treated as a (small) hard drive.
Unfortunately, they are sometimes differently sized
(32MB vs 48MB, etc.)
I’ve done the following, but this just gives question
marks instead of periods when booting:
- Boot from floppy.
- Mount network.
- Mount original IDE flash.
- Copy flash to network.
- Shutdown and install new IDE flash.
- Boot from floppy.
- fdisk new flash.
> dinit new flash.
- Mount network.
- Mount new IDE flash.
- Copy network files to new IDE flash.
- Reboot.
Obiviously I’ve missed an important step in there somewhere. I
made just one QNX partition and it was marked bootable…
(This is on an x86 PC/104 board, but that shouldn’t matter much.)
Thanks!
Kevin Radke
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There is an issue with making bootable Compact Flash drives in QNXRTP:
http://support.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10157
http://support.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10199
The workaround is to use the QNX4 version of fdisk and dinit.
You can download a QNX floppy disk image from:
http://www.qnx.com/~emuis/
Hope this helps
Philip
“Philip Brown” <philip.brown@cursor-system.com> wrote in message
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There is an issue with making bootable Compact Flash drives in QNXRTP:
http://support.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10157
http://support.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10199
The workaround is to use the QNX4 version of fdisk and dinit.
You can download a QNX floppy disk image from:
http://www.qnx.com/~emuis/
I thought this was fixed with patch A?
Marisa
“Marisa Giancarla” <mgiancarla@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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“Philip Brown” <> philip.brown@cursor-system.com> > wrote in message
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There is an issue with making bootable Compact Flash drives in QNXRTP:
http://support.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10157
http://support.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10199
The workaround is to use the QNX4 version of fdisk and dinit.
You can download a QNX floppy disk image from:
http://www.qnx.com/~emuis/
I thought this was fixed with patch A?
Marisa
I didn’t think it was, and I’ve just tried it and can confirm that it is not
fixed in the Patch A I’ve got
(the public download from the QNX web site).
Cheers
Philip
“Philip Brown” <philip.brown@cursor-system.com> wrote in message
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“Marisa Giancarla” <> mgiancarla@macromedia.com> > wrote in message
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I thought this was fixed with patch A?
I didn’t think it was, and I’ve just tried it and can confirm that it is
not
fixed in the Patch A I’ve got
(the public download from the QNX web site).
Then no wonder I was still having trouble writing a bootable image onto a
PCMCIA hard drive…
Marisa