QNX and PowerQuest Boot Magic?

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I have a multi-os, multi-boot system. QNX, BeOS, Win95 and Win2000 all on
one system. QNX is on a primary partition, on my second hard drive. If I
go into the BIOS and make the QNX partition active, and boot to the second
hard drive QNX runs fine, but when I use BootMagic, all I get is the “press
ESC for alternate OS” message. After that, nothing happens. Using
BootMagic, all of my other OSes boot fine, even Be which is also on that
second hard drive. Anyone have a suggestion on how i can get QNX to boot
using Boot Magic?

Thanks

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Previously, Dale Frameli wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:

I have a multi-os, multi-boot system. QNX, BeOS, Win95 and Win2000 all on
one system. QNX is on a primary partition, on my second hard drive. If I
go into the BIOS and make the QNX partition active, and boot to the second
hard drive QNX runs fine, but when I use BootMagic, all I get is the “press
ESC for alternate OS” message. After that, nothing happens. Using
BootMagic, all of my other OSes boot fine, even Be which is also on that
second hard drive. Anyone have a suggestion on how i can get QNX to boot
using Boot Magic?

I just installed Boot Magic and it plain works. Make sure you aren’t hitting
esc unless you have a .altboot file?

–
David L. Hawley D.L. Hawley and Associates

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A couple of questions… How do I find the help file for dinit? I want
to make sure I get the syntax correct :slight_smile: Also, I played with BootMagic
quite a bit. Funny, within BootMagic, the QNX partition is show as not
visible. All “visible drives” other than the Win98SE and Win2000 on drive
#1, even under “advanced”, show to be ghosted out. Even the QNX partition
is ghosted out, so I cannot make it a visible drive. Any ideas why?

Finally, I was able to change the error message to:

(8G) Press ESC for .altboot.?01

After that, the result is the same, my harddrive activity light stays on,
but nothing else happens.

Thanks



“David Hawley” <david.l.hawley@computer.org> wrote in message
news:Voyager.010623170041.774183A@shadow.hawley.com…

Previously, Dale Frameli wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:
I have a multi-os, multi-boot system. QNX, BeOS, Win95 and Win2000 all
on
one system. QNX is on a primary partition, on my second hard drive. If
I
go into the BIOS and make the QNX partition active, and boot to the
second
hard drive QNX runs fine, but when I use BootMagic, all I get is the
“press
ESC for alternate OS” message. After that, nothing happens. Using
BootMagic, all of my other OSes boot fine, even Be which is also on that
second hard drive. Anyone have a suggestion on how i can get QNX to
boot
using Boot Magic?

I just installed Boot Magic and it plain works. Make sure you aren’t
hitting
esc unless you have a .altboot file?

–
David L. Hawley D.L. Hawley and Associates

4

I’m using BM 6.0, hte only thing I had to do was click on properties for my QNX partition (type 4F) and click on override default selections. this allowed me to mark the primary Fat32 partition as visible so QNX could mount it as a DOS disk. Otherwise it just worked.

use dinit gives a pretty good list of options - although I just let the CD build the partition as it wanted.

I guess that I’m not being much help. Is your partition over the 8gb limit of an older BIOS?

Previously, Dale Frameli wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:

A couple of questions… How do I find the help file for dinit? I want
to make sure I get the syntax correct > :slight_smile: > Also, I played with BootMagic
quite a bit. Funny, within BootMagic, the QNX partition is show as not
visible. All “visible drives” other than the Win98SE and Win2000 on drive
#1, even under “advanced”, show to be ghosted out. Even the QNX partition
is ghosted out, so I cannot make it a visible drive. Any ideas why?

Finally, I was able to change the error message to:

(8G) Press ESC for .altboot.?01

After that, the result is the same, my harddrive activity light stays on,
but nothing else happens.

Thanks



“David Hawley” <> david.l.hawley@computer.org> > wrote in message
news:> Voyager.010623170041.774183A@shadow.hawley.com> …
Previously, Dale Frameli wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:
I have a multi-os, multi-boot system. QNX, BeOS, Win95 and Win2000 all
on
one system. QNX is on a primary partition, on my second hard drive. If
I
go into the BIOS and make the QNX partition active, and boot to the
second
hard drive QNX runs fine, but when I use BootMagic, all I get is the
“press
ESC for alternate OS” message. After that, nothing happens. Using
BootMagic, all of my other OSes boot fine, even Be which is also on that
second hard drive. Anyone have a suggestion on how i can get QNX to
boot
using Boot Magic?

I just installed Boot Magic and it plain works. Make sure you aren’t
hitting
esc unless you have a .altboot file?

–
David L. Hawley D.L. Hawley and Associates

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–
David L. Hawley D.L. Hawley and Associates

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I was also using Boot Magic to boot to QNX. I saw the same problem - but
only if I cancelled the boot-time memory test by pressing ESC !!!. Somehow
the keypress was remaining buffered and was effecting the QNX boot. Bazaar.
I know this doesn’t seem possible - but it was happening! I don’t have the
dual-boot setup anymore - so I can’t give any more specifics.

Ed Theobald
Revis & Associates
edtheobald@starband.net


“Dale Frameli” <dframeli@texas.net> wrote in message
news:9h35he$1pc$1@inn.qnx.com…

I have a multi-os, multi-boot system. QNX, BeOS, Win95 and Win2000 all on
one system. QNX is on a primary partition, on my second hard drive. If I
go into the BIOS and make the QNX partition active, and boot to the second
hard drive QNX runs fine, but when I use BootMagic, all I get is the
“press
ESC for alternate OS” message. After that, nothing happens. Using
BootMagic, all of my other OSes boot fine, even Be which is also on that
second hard drive. Anyone have a suggestion on how i can get QNX to boot
using Boot Magic?

Thanks

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I have seen this on some BIOS/CMOS setups; somehow they read the ESC but don’t
clear it out of the KBD buffer so it lurks there and causes QNX to go to its
alternate boot.

Ed Theobald wrote:

I was also using Boot Magic to boot to QNX. I saw the same problem - but
only if I cancelled the boot-time memory test by pressing ESC !!!. Somehow
the keypress was remaining buffered and was effecting the QNX boot. Bazaar.
I know this doesn’t seem possible - but it was happening! I don’t have the
dual-boot setup anymore - so I can’t give any more specifics.

Ed Theobald
Revis & Associates
edtheobald@starband.net

“Dale Frameli” <> dframeli@texas.net> > wrote in message
news:9h35he$1pc$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
I have a multi-os, multi-boot system. QNX, BeOS, Win95 and Win2000 all on
one system. QNX is on a primary partition, on my second hard drive. If I
go into the BIOS and make the QNX partition active, and boot to the second
hard drive QNX runs fine, but when I use BootMagic, all I get is the
“press
ESC for alternate OS” message. After that, nothing happens. Using
BootMagic, all of my other OSes boot fine, even Be which is also on that
second hard drive. Anyone have a suggestion on how i can get QNX to boot
using Boot Magic?

Thanks

7

No, I made sure I placed my BeOS and QNX partitions completely within the
first 8GB of my 2nd harddrive. Funny thing is that I cannot get the QNX
partition “unghosted”. I’d make it visible if PM would let me :slight_smile:

Thanks!


“David Hawley” <david.l.hawley@computer.org> wrote in message
news:Voyager.010626210527.942090A@localhost.localdomain…

I’m using BM 6.0, hte only thing I had to do was click on properties for
my QNX partition (type 4F) and click on override default selections. this

allowed me to mark the primary Fat32 partition as visible so QNX could mount
it as a DOS disk. Otherwise it just worked.

use dinit gives a pretty good list of options - although I just let the CD
build the partition as it wanted.

I guess that I’m not being much help. Is your partition over the 8gb limit
of an older BIOS?

Previously, Dale Frameli wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:
A couple of questions… How do I find the help file for dinit? I
want
to make sure I get the syntax correct > :slight_smile: > Also, I played with BootMagic
quite a bit. Funny, within BootMagic, the QNX partition is show as not
visible. All “visible drives” other than the Win98SE and Win2000 on
drive
#1, even under “advanced”, show to be ghosted out. Even the QNX
partition
is ghosted out, so I cannot make it a visible drive. Any ideas why?

Finally, I was able to change the error message to:

(8G) Press ESC for .altboot.?01

After that, the result is the same, my harddrive activity light stays
on,
but nothing else happens.

Thanks



“David Hawley” <> david.l.hawley@computer.org> > wrote in message
news:> Voyager.010623170041.774183A@shadow.hawley.com> …
Previously, Dale Frameli wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:
I have a multi-os, multi-boot system. QNX, BeOS, Win95 and Win2000
all
on
one system. QNX is on a primary partition, on my second hard drive.
If
I
go into the BIOS and make the QNX partition active, and boot to the
second
hard drive QNX runs fine, but when I use BootMagic, all I get is the
“press
ESC for alternate OS” message. After that, nothing happens. Using
BootMagic, all of my other OSes boot fine, even Be which is also on
that
second hard drive. Anyone have a suggestion on how i can get QNX to
boot
using Boot Magic?

I just installed Boot Magic and it plain works. Make sure you aren’t
hitting
esc unless you have a .altboot file?

–
David L. Hawley D.L. Hawley and Associates




\

David L. Hawley D.L. Hawley and Associates

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Which version of BM you got? I have BM 6.0. All you need is to turn on the
‘Advanced partition hiding’ mode. QNX partition will be ‘Type 4F’ it allows
to choose which partitions are visible when you boot into each of bootable
partitions.

  • igor

“Dale Frameli” <dframeli@texas.net> wrote in message
news:9hef0c$psb$1@inn.qnx.com…

No, I made sure I placed my BeOS and QNX partitions completely within the
first 8GB of my 2nd harddrive. Funny thing is that I cannot get the QNX
partition “unghosted”. I’d make it visible if PM would let me > :slight_smile:

Thanks!


“David Hawley” <> david.l.hawley@computer.org> > wrote in message
news:> Voyager.010626210527.942090A@localhost.localdomain> …
I’m using BM 6.0, hte only thing I had to do was click on properties for
my QNX partition (type 4F) and click on override default selections. this
allowed me to mark the primary Fat32 partition as visible so QNX could
mount
it as a DOS disk. Otherwise it just worked.

use dinit gives a pretty good list of options - although I just let the
CD
build the partition as it wanted.

I guess that I’m not being much help. Is your partition over the 8gb
limit
of an older BIOS?

Previously, Dale Frameli wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:
A couple of questions… How do I find the help file for dinit? I
want
to make sure I get the syntax correct > :slight_smile: > Also, I played with
BootMagic
quite a bit. Funny, within BootMagic, the QNX partition is show as
not
visible. All “visible drives” other than the Win98SE and Win2000 on
drive
#1, even under “advanced”, show to be ghosted out. Even the QNX
partition
is ghosted out, so I cannot make it a visible drive. Any ideas why?

Finally, I was able to change the error message to:

(8G) Press ESC for .altboot.?01

After that, the result is the same, my harddrive activity light
stays
on,
but nothing else happens.

Thanks



“David Hawley” <> david.l.hawley@computer.org> > wrote in message
news:> Voyager.010623170041.774183A@shadow.hawley.com> …
Previously, Dale Frameli wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:
I have a multi-os, multi-boot system. QNX, BeOS, Win95 and
Win2000
all
on
one system. QNX is on a primary partition, on my second hard
drive.
If
I
go into the BIOS and make the QNX partition active, and boot to
the
second
hard drive QNX runs fine, but when I use BootMagic, all I get is
the
“press
ESC for alternate OS” message. After that, nothing happens.
Using
BootMagic, all of my other OSes boot fine, even Be which is also
on
that
second hard drive. Anyone have a suggestion on how i can get QNX
to
boot
using Boot Magic?

I just installed Boot Magic and it plain works. Make sure you
aren’t
hitting
esc unless you have a .altboot file?

–
David L. Hawley D.L. Hawley and Associates




\

David L. Hawley D.L. Hawley and Associates