new qnxrtp 6.1 doesn't install at all

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Hi,
after i screwed my 6.0 installation with that damn’ 6.1 upgrade,
I downloaded the new 6.1 iso (440 Mb) for a new installation from scratch

I deleted my old t79 partition, and tried to boot on the cdrom…
too bad! installation complain “not to see 6.1 partition to mount”… sure
:slight_smile:

My system has 2 eide hard disk, with scsi cdrom drive and writer, the 6.0
RTP used to work fine with it.

I tried some boot options F6 (verbose) + F10 (force partition installation)
but it ends with “can’t find finstall” msg
I also tried to boot on floppy using the floppy image found on cdrom, with
same result
I also tried the mini iso image (~60 mb) with same result.
And now ?
Help !!!

2

I’m seeing a similar twist to this problem. I have a system
with an AHA2940 hard drive, but an ATAPI/EIDE CD-ROM. I
installed the last 6.0 version on this system. Now I’m
trying to install 6.1. Initially both the SCSI and EIDE
controllers are found, and installation starts from the EIDE
CD-ROM drive. At some point the system says that it is
restarting the drivers. Then it times out waiting to mount
the CD-ROM device.

I think that there’s a hidden assumption here that both the
CD-ROM and Hard drive are on the same controller. That would
explain both of our problems.


Previously, Sébastien Kirche wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:

Hi,
after i screwed my 6.0 installation with that damn’ 6.1 upgrade,
I downloaded the new 6.1 iso (440 Mb) for a new installation from scratch

I deleted my old t79 partition, and tried to boot on the cdrom…
too bad! installation complain “not to see 6.1 partition to mount”… sure
:slight_smile:

My system has 2 eide hard disk, with scsi cdrom drive and writer, the 6.0
RTP used to work fine with it.

I tried some boot options F6 (verbose) + F10 (force partition installation)
but it ends with “can’t find finstall” msg
I also tried to boot on floppy using the floppy image found on cdrom, with
same result
I also tried the mini iso image (~60 mb) with same result.
And now ?
Help !!!


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–
Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com

3

Yep, maybe you are right
My eide disks are standard IBM 8 & 2 Go,
while scsi adapter is also standard Tekram 390 (symbios 875x) controlling
Teac reader and Matshita/Panasonic writer.

Both are detected at startup.

The remaining of config has nothing extravagant : Abit BH6 / P2 400 MHz /
384 Mo Ram

But I wonder why does it want to find an existing 6.1 partition at startup
during installation, 'coz i just want to CREATE one.
Does this cd-rom aim to upgrade existing installion only ???

“Mitchell Schoenbrun” <maschoen@pobox.com> a écrit dans le message news:
Voyager.010903175637.202A@schoenbrun.com…
I’m seeing a similar twist to this problem. I have a system
with an AHA2940 hard drive, but an ATAPI/EIDE CD-ROM. I
installed the last 6.0 version on this system. Now I’m
trying to install 6.1. Initially both the SCSI and EIDE
controllers are found, and installation starts from the EIDE
CD-ROM drive. At some point the system says that it is
restarting the drivers. Then it times out waiting to mount
the CD-ROM device.

I think that there’s a hidden assumption here that both the
CD-ROM and Hard drive are on the same controller. That would
explain both of our problems.


Previously, Sébastien Kirche wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:

Hi,
after i screwed my 6.0 installation with that damn’ 6.1 upgrade,
I downloaded the new 6.1 iso (440 Mb) for a new installation from scratch

I deleted my old t79 partition, and tried to boot on the cdrom…
too bad! installation complain “not to see 6.1 partition to mount”…
sure
:slight_smile:

My system has 2 eide hard disk, with scsi cdrom drive and writer, the 6.0
RTP used to work fine with it.

I tried some boot options F6 (verbose) + F10 (force partition
installation)
but it ends with “can’t find finstall” msg
I also tried to boot on floppy using the floppy image found on cdrom, with
same result
I also tried the mini iso image (~60 mb) with same result.
And now ?
Help !!!


\

–
Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com

4

Previously, Sébastien Kirche wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:

My eide disks are standard IBM 8 & 2 Go,
while scsi adapter is also standard Tekram 390 (symbios 875x) controlling
Teac reader and Matshita/Panasonic writer.

Both are detected at startup.

But I wonder why does it want to find an existing 6.1 partition at startup
during installation, 'coz i just want to CREATE one.
Does this cd-rom aim to upgrade existing installion only ???

It wants to see what is currently in the partition table. If you
already have a partition 79 it asks whether you want to delete it
or not.

I think what happens is the following.

  1. All controllers are detected
  2. Disk drivers for found controllers are started
  3. All disks are detected
  4. User makes choices about where to put partition
  5. Partition table is updated
  6. All disk drivers are stopped
  7. Disk driver for boot disk is started

The reason for step 6 and 7 is that partitions are usually
only detected when the driver starts, thus it must be
stopped and started again. The error seems to be that
secondary drivers are not restarted.

Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com