I have a system running NT 4.0 SP6. It has 2 SCSI hard drives and
a SCSI CD-ROM drive. It boots NT from a 4GB drive with 3 NTFS
partitons on it. The second drive has a 1GB NTFS partition and
a second 1GB partition that isn’t used. Any chance of me being
able to install 6.1 on the unused partition and being able to
dual boot?
I know it didn’t work under any incarnation of 6.0. Any chance
6.1 is any better?
Craig
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Hello Craig,
Did you try to launch QNX installation program (boot from installation CD
or floppy)? Does the program recognize your SCSI drives and CD-ROM? If
answer is yes the major problem is second drive. Could you remove the one
NTFS partition from first drive to second drive? BTW, You could read about
ntldr usage in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser, thread “RTP+NT dual boot system”.
Regards,
Eduard.
Eduard Kromskoy wrote:
Did you try to launch QNX installation program (boot from installation CD
or floppy)? Does the program recognize your SCSI drives and CD-ROM? If
answer is yes the major problem is second drive. Could you remove the one
NTFS partition from first drive to second drive? BTW, You could read about
ntldr usage in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser, thread “RTP+NT dual boot system”.
Thanks, I looked at the other thread. This looks promising, though a little
more work than I’d hoped. I should be able to move one of my partitions
over
to the other drive without too much effort. Am I correct that since my NT
system partition is on C: that I wouldn’t need to do the boot.ini changes
listed
in step 2?
In fact, do I really even need the NT boot floppy, or am I missing something
here? My system partiton is 1 from what my boot.ini file says. Is
installing
QNX on another partiton on the same drive going to cause my NT system
partition
to change?
It seems like I could just free up a partition on the same drive my NT
system
partition is on, and install QNX there telling it that I’m going to use my
own
loader. Then just create and copy the bootsect.qnx file to my C: drive and
add
the line for it to boot.ini. Am I missing something?
I’ll have to find some time to mess with it. Thanks for any more feedback
you can provide.
Thanks.
Craig
Hi Craig,
Craig Ganoe <ganoe@vt.edu> wrote in article <3B675F3A.F1B7B224@vt.edu>…
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Am I correct that since my NT
system partition is on C: that I wouldn’t need to do the boot.ini changes
listed
in step 2?
Yes, you are correct
In fact, do I really even need the NT boot floppy, or am I missing
something
here? My system partiton is 1 from what my boot.ini file says. Is
installing
QNX on another partiton on the same drive going to cause my NT system
partition
to change?
Number of your NT system partition will not be changed. You need boot
floppy to boot in NT after QNX installation. QNX installation program marks
active the QNX partition. So you need restore active partition to be able
to load ntldr. You could do it by fdisk or any other manner. Do not forget
you will have no access to NTFS partitions under QNX.
It seems like I could just free up a partition on the same drive my NT
system
partition is on, and install QNX there telling it that I’m going to use
my
own
loader. Then just create and copy the bootsect.qnx file to my C: drive
and
add
the line for it to boot.ini. Am I missing something?
You are right. And last step - you need mark as active volume C.
But first, you need know is your SCSI devices supported by QNX. Does
installation program recognize them? The procedure works fine with IDE (non
ATA100) drives because QNX installation has no problem to properly
recognize them. I am not sure the installation program detects all
supported SCSI hardware. Maybe anyone else knows more about QNX
installation on SCSI drive… Regardless single boot system or multi boot.
Note the QNX require unused disk space. Launch windisk to make shure the
unused space is not covered by extended partition. I have no success to
resize extended partition in NT and I’ve used DOS bootable floppy and PQ
magic program.
Best regards,
Eduard.
I’ll have to find some time to mess with it. Thanks for any more
feedback
you can provide.
Thanks.
Craig
Hi Craig,
Let me know if you will have a luck 
BTW, there is some interesting thread about SCSI in
qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser.
Good luck!
Eduard
Eduard Kromskoy wrote:
Let me know if you will have a luck >
BTW, there is some interesting thread about SCSI in
qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser.
Thanks! I’m not sure if I’m going to get to this this weekend
or not. Thanks for the explanation on why I need the NT boot
disk. The whole process makes sense now, I just need to find
the time to do it. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Craig
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