I have a DIMM-PC 486 card with 16M of RAM and 16M of IDE hard disk
(unremovable IDE Flash drive).
On my Host System I can create a bootable image that contains fdisk and
dinit using mkifs - I can then send it to a floppy with dinit and boot my
Target System with it. However, when I boot this image there’s no
/dev/hd0t77 or /dev/hd0 device for me to fdisk. How do I create the
necessary /dev/hdxxx device files for me to fdisk/dinit?
I’m obviously not a *nix guru or I’d probably know how to get around this
catch-22. Any help would be appreciated.
I have a DIMM-PC 486 card with 16M of RAM and 16M of IDE hard disk
(unremovable IDE Flash drive).
On my Host System I can create a bootable image that contains fdisk and
dinit using mkifs - I can then send it to a floppy with dinit and boot my
Target System with it. However, when I boot this image there’s no
/dev/hd0t77 or /dev/hd0 device for me to fdisk. How do I create the
necessary /dev/hdxxx device files for me to fdisk/dinit?
I’m obviously not a *nix guru or I’d probably know how to get around this
catch-22. Any help would be appreciated.
Is the hard disk driver running/loaded?
On a bootable stiffy, chances are this driver is not part of the
boot image or subsequently loaded.
Post your boot script.
My basic problem is this: In a QNX system that has a minimal /dev directory:
#ls /dev
con1 con3 console mem shmem tty
con2 con4 kbd null text zero
How do I establish the fact to QNX that there is an IDE hard disk in the
system and create a special file in /dev equivalent to /dev/hd0? fdisk
requires an argument of /dev/xxxxxx to start - so what happens prior to
running fdisk? Note that the above list was performed on a PC compatible
machine that started from a floppy disk, and yet there is not a file similar
to /dev/fd0. I’m baffled by this stuff.
The flash drive that I’m using does not require a driver - the interface is
in hardware and the flash looks like a small but standard IDE hard disk to
all software. I have verified this by installing DOS on to the machine and
formatting, etc. the flash disk.
I will post my startup script shortly, I’m not at the appropriate machine.
I have a DIMM-PC 486 card with 16M of RAM and 16M of IDE hard disk
(unremovable IDE Flash drive).
On my Host System I can create a bootable image that contains fdisk and
dinit using mkifs - I can then send it to a floppy with dinit and boot
my
Target System with it. However, when I boot this image there’s no
/dev/hd0t77 or /dev/hd0 device for me to fdisk. How do I create the
necessary /dev/hdxxx device files for me to fdisk/dinit?
I’m obviously not a *nix guru or I’d probably know how to get around
this
catch-22. Any help would be appreciated.
Is the hard disk driver running/loaded?
On a bootable stiffy, chances are this driver is not part of the
boot image or subsequently loaded.
Post your boot script.
My basic problem is this: In a QNX system that has a minimal /dev directory:
#ls /dev
con1 con3 console mem shmem tty
con2 con4 kbd null text zero
How do I establish the fact to QNX that there is an IDE hard disk in the
system and create a special file in /dev equivalent to /dev/hd0? fdisk
requires an argument of /dev/xxxxxx to start - so what happens prior to
running fdisk? Note that the above list was performed on a PC compatible
machine that started from a floppy disk, and yet there is not a file similar
to /dev/fd0. I’m baffled by this stuff. >
The flash drive that I’m using does not require a driver - the interface is
in hardware and the flash looks like a small but standard IDE hard disk to
all software. I have verified this by installing DOS on to the machine and
formatting, etc. the flash disk.
I will post my startup script shortly, I’m not at the appropriate machine.
I have a DIMM-PC 486 card with 16M of RAM and 16M of IDE hard disk
(unremovable IDE Flash drive).
On my Host System I can create a bootable image that contains fdisk and
dinit using mkifs - I can then send it to a floppy with dinit and boot
my
Target System with it. However, when I boot this image there’s no
/dev/hd0t77 or /dev/hd0 device for me to fdisk. How do I create the
necessary /dev/hdxxx device files for me to fdisk/dinit?
I’m obviously not a *nix guru or I’d probably know how to get around
this
catch-22. Any help would be appreciated.
Is the hard disk driver running/loaded?
On a bootable stiffy, chances are this driver is not part of the
boot image or subsequently loaded.
Post your boot script.
