After downloading QNX 6.1 .iso file from Tucows and verifying checksum, used
Easy CD “Disk at once” option to create CD. Set BIOS to boot from CD-ROM
but wouldn’t boot; got message:
esc for altboot…
then system hung
tried hitting esc at beginning and still hung
Am running Windows XP on a Dell Dimension 4300 desktop with CD drive as
secondary IDE master.
Same CD boots ok on another machine, a 350 mhz AMD running Win98. Any
ideas?
thanks
John Cockerham
Who knows what XP is doing. I know Win2K had some really
wierd things like, if your bios was setup so that there was
no floppy attached, you could boot from any CD until you installed
2K. Once you installed 2K, you could only boot from the 2K CD,
unless you attached a floppy drive. Blech!
John Cockerham <jccockerham@yahoo.com> wrote:
After downloading QNX 6.1 .iso file from Tucows and verifying checksum, used
Easy CD “Disk at once” option to create CD. Set BIOS to boot from CD-ROM
but wouldn’t boot; got message:
esc for altboot…
then system hung
tried hitting esc at beginning and still hung
This however doesn’t sound like an XP problem. Hmmm this isn’t a P4 by
anychance is it? We had a Dell P4 come in a while ago from a customer
who was having problems with it. Turned out, that the OS wouldn’t detect
the number of CPU’s correctly. It would always return 0. This was fixed
and should be released with patch A. It was due to some semi-non conventional
way that the system was setup.
Just checking out the site and this is a P4 system. Is there any possibility
that you could send in the system? We should be able to get it going and
install the fix for this and it shouldn’t take too long.
Erick.
Am running Windows XP on a Dell Dimension 4300 desktop with CD drive as
secondary IDE master.Same CD boots ok on another machine, a 350 mhz AMD running Win98. Any
ideas?thanks
John Cockerham
“Hardware Support Account” <hw@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:9srf6n$ahp$1@nntp.qnx.com…
Who knows what XP is doing. I know Win2K had some really
wierd things like, if your bios was setup so that there was
no floppy attached, you could boot from any CD until you installed
2K. Once you installed 2K, you could only boot from the 2K CD,
unless you attached a floppy drive. Blech!
??? The booting process is handle by the BIOS, at that time the
no OS component are not even started.
What is possible is that the BIOS was setup so the HD loader
was loading first which then in turn, attempt to boot from the CD
(that would be a nice trick to support booting from CD on machine
that don’t support it).
Otherwise I don’t see how the OS can affect how the BIOS
handles the boot devices.
I tried "reply"s to your message but haven’t gotten any response - are
"reply"s the proper way to contact qnx support?
“Hardware Support Account” <hw@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:9srf6n$ahp$1@nntp.qnx.com…
Who knows what XP is doing. I know Win2K had some really
wierd things like, if your bios was setup so that there was
no floppy attached, you could boot from any CD until you installed
2K. Once you installed 2K, you could only boot from the 2K CD,
unless you attached a floppy drive. Blech!John Cockerham <> jccockerham@yahoo.com> > wrote:
After downloading QNX 6.1 .iso file from Tucows and verifying checksum,
used
Easy CD “Disk at once” option to create CD. Set BIOS to boot from
CD-ROM
but wouldn’t boot; got message:
esc for altboot…
then system hung
tried hitting esc at beginning and still hungThis however doesn’t sound like an XP problem. Hmmm this isn’t a P4 by
anychance is it? We had a Dell P4 come in a while ago from a customer
who was having problems with it. Turned out, that the OS wouldn’t detect
the number of CPU’s correctly. It would always return 0. This was fixed
and should be released with patch A. It was due to some semi-non
conventional
way that the system was setup.Just checking out the site and this is a P4 system. Is there any
possibility
that you could send in the system? We should be able to get it going and
install the fix for this and it shouldn’t take too long.Erick.
Am running Windows XP on a Dell Dimension 4300 desktop with CD drive as
secondary IDE master.Same CD boots ok on another machine, a 350 mhz AMD running Win98. Any
ideas?thanks
John Cockerham
Mario Charest <mcharest@clipzinformatic.com> wrote:
“Hardware Support Account” <> hw@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:9srf6n$ahp$> 1@nntp.qnx.com> …
Who knows what XP is doing. I know Win2K had some really
wierd things like, if your bios was setup so that there was
no floppy attached, you could boot from any CD until you installed
2K. Once you installed 2K, you could only boot from the 2K CD,
unless you attached a floppy drive. Blech!??? The booting process is handle by the BIOS, at that time the
no OS component are not even started.What is possible is that the BIOS was setup so the HD loader
was loading first which then in turn, attempt to boot from the CD
(that would be a nice trick to support booting from CD on machine
that don’t support it).Otherwise I don’t see how the OS can affect how the BIOS
handles the boot devices.
To be totally honest, I thought the same thing. However I have
an Adaptec 2940AU controller with a DVD/CD attached, which I have
set as the bootable device on the controller. I then in my bios
setup the configuration so that it boots from the SCSI controller
first. I have had two systems that showed this, so unless this
is something related to SCSI specificly (a friend of mine who
also has a SCSI setup also reported this) I am a bit amazed by
the magic.
E.
Hi John,
Please post replys on the newsgroups. That way the whole community can
participate and benifit if we discover something revolutional. 
Erick.
John Cockerham <jccockerham@yahoo.com> wrote:
I tried "reply"s to your message but haven’t gotten any response - are
"reply"s the proper way to contact qnx support?
“Hardware Support Account” <> hw@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:9srf6n$ahp$> 1@nntp.qnx.com> …
Who knows what XP is doing. I know Win2K had some really
wierd things like, if your bios was setup so that there was
no floppy attached, you could boot from any CD until you installed
2K. Once you installed 2K, you could only boot from the 2K CD,
unless you attached a floppy drive. Blech!John Cockerham <> jccockerham@yahoo.com> > wrote:
After downloading QNX 6.1 .iso file from Tucows and verifying checksum,
used
Easy CD “Disk at once” option to create CD. Set BIOS to boot from
CD-ROM
but wouldn’t boot; got message:
esc for altboot…
then system hung
tried hitting esc at beginning and still hungThis however doesn’t sound like an XP problem. Hmmm this isn’t a P4 by
anychance is it? We had a Dell P4 come in a while ago from a customer
who was having problems with it. Turned out, that the OS wouldn’t detect
the number of CPU’s correctly. It would always return 0. This was fixed
and should be released with patch A. It was due to some semi-non
conventional
way that the system was setup.Just checking out the site and this is a P4 system. Is there any
possibility
that you could send in the system? We should be able to get it going and
install the fix for this and it shouldn’t take too long.Erick.
Am running Windows XP on a Dell Dimension 4300 desktop with CD drive as
secondary IDE master.Same CD boots ok on another machine, a 350 mhz AMD running Win98. Any
ideas?thanks
John Cockerham
Assuming that my problem is due to the fact that I’m running a P4 processor
and also assuming that patch A will fix the problem, how do I manage to get
patch A into my QNX image if I can’t run QNX (the installer) in the first
place?
thanks
“Hardware Support Account” <hw@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:9srf6n$ahp$1@nntp.qnx.com…
Who knows what XP is doing. I know Win2K had some really
wierd things like, if your bios was setup so that there was
no floppy attached, you could boot from any CD until you installed
2K. Once you installed 2K, you could only boot from the 2K CD,
unless you attached a floppy drive. Blech!John Cockerham <> jccockerham@yahoo.com> > wrote:
After downloading QNX 6.1 .iso file from Tucows and verifying checksum,
used
Easy CD “Disk at once” option to create CD. Set BIOS to boot from
CD-ROM
but wouldn’t boot; got message:
esc for altboot…
then system hung
tried hitting esc at beginning and still hungThis however doesn’t sound like an XP problem. Hmmm this isn’t a P4 by
anychance is it? We had a Dell P4 come in a while ago from a customer
who was having problems with it. Turned out, that the OS wouldn’t detect
the number of CPU’s correctly. It would always return 0. This was fixed
and should be released with patch A. It was due to some semi-non
conventional
way that the system was setup.Just checking out the site and this is a P4 system. Is there any
possibility
that you could send in the system? We should be able to get it going and
install the fix for this and it shouldn’t take too long.Erick.
Am running Windows XP on a Dell Dimension 4300 desktop with CD drive as
secondary IDE master.Same CD boots ok on another machine, a 350 mhz AMD running Win98. Any
ideas?thanks
John Cockerham
Hi John,
Atually, it is a problem with Dell based systems that have P4’s in them.
Basicly the hardware reports to us that there are 0 processors in the system.
What you could do, is remove the harddrive from the system and put it into
another system, load the OS and patch A onto it and then you should be AOK.
Erick.
John Cockerham <jccockerham@yahoo.com> wrote:
Assuming that my problem is due to the fact that I’m running a P4 processor
and also assuming that patch A will fix the problem, how do I manage to get
patch A into my QNX image if I can’t run QNX (the installer) in the first
place?thanks
“Hardware Support Account” <> hw@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:9srf6n$ahp$> 1@nntp.qnx.com> …
Who knows what XP is doing. I know Win2K had some really
wierd things like, if your bios was setup so that there was
no floppy attached, you could boot from any CD until you installed
2K. Once you installed 2K, you could only boot from the 2K CD,
unless you attached a floppy drive. Blech!John Cockerham <> jccockerham@yahoo.com> > wrote:
After downloading QNX 6.1 .iso file from Tucows and verifying checksum,
used
Easy CD “Disk at once” option to create CD. Set BIOS to boot from
CD-ROM
but wouldn’t boot; got message:
esc for altboot…
then system hung
tried hitting esc at beginning and still hungThis however doesn’t sound like an XP problem. Hmmm this isn’t a P4 by
anychance is it? We had a Dell P4 come in a while ago from a customer
who was having problems with it. Turned out, that the OS wouldn’t detect
the number of CPU’s correctly. It would always return 0. This was fixed
and should be released with patch A. It was due to some semi-non
conventional
way that the system was setup.Just checking out the site and this is a P4 system. Is there any
possibility
that you could send in the system? We should be able to get it going and
install the fix for this and it shouldn’t take too long.Erick.
Am running Windows XP on a Dell Dimension 4300 desktop with CD drive as
secondary IDE master.Same CD boots ok on another machine, a 350 mhz AMD running Win98. Any
ideas?thanks
John Cockerham