Hi Valer,
Valer <millet.v@wanadoo.fr> wrote in article <a3m4bt$mq5$1@inn.qnx.com>…
so reading your post Kabe i’ve retried…
Did you read the web page? It’s in japan (I also don’t speak japan and even can’t see it properly),
but you could catch the major ideas.
i boot my PC with the CD and choose “F3 → install QNX in a new partition”
…cotinue the install process till this message :
“you have room for a 1004 megabytes QNX partition”
→ i know that because i’ve freed a 1004 Mo deleting the 1st PRIMARY
partition (1st of 4 and only 4! you know that)
“please select the size…”
“F1 - all 1004 Mo”
“F2 - half 502 Mo”
“F3 - quarter 251 Mo”
“F4 - eighth 125 Mo”
“F5 - display partition table allowing you to delete an existing partition”
→ so how can i determine EXACTLY the size of the future QNX partition ?
imagine you have an empty 80Go disk, would you really like to use 10Go (1/8)
for QNX ? i think it’s not possible…
→ i choose F5 just to see and appears this menu:
"F1 - “primary partition 1” (i can’t actually read that but the partition
description, FS, size etc…)
"F2 - “primary partition 2”
"F3 - “primary partition 3”
"F4 - “primary partition 4”
“F5 - go back”
so according to me QNX won’t let me install it in a logical drive (my
primary 4 is an extended one with logical drives)
Unfortunately QNX does not let you install it in a logical drive. You’re right.
so only solution i’ve found is installing QNX in a primary one and then make
a ghost of it to a logical one.
Don’t make ghost. Install it in primary partition. Then creat logical partition (use fdisk), then
dinit it and creat .diskroot file and cp files on logical partition. Please, look at Kabe’s page…
Kabe you wrote this :
Seems you didn’t install the bootloader to the PBR
i use my own bootloader (in another drive) so i didn’t install the QNX
bootloader
by the way, the install process do not let me install a bootloader in the
EMBR (or PBR like you call it)
Just currious
I guess PBR is Partition Boot Record, what’s EMBR?
choice is : “install in the MBR” or “no boot loader”
a Red Hat Linux (or other distribution) let us do it but not QNX
QNX uses primary boot loader. It sits in MBR and allows you to select partition for boot. It’s not
LILO or something similar… If you’re using your own multisystem boot loader, just don’t install
it. Also QNX use secondary boot loader. It sits in PBR and you must install it (you have no choice
during installation). It loads boot image .boot (or .altboot) into memory and this image continue
to boot QNX.
I guess you have wrong secondary boot loader after making ghost. So, use dinit to creat it
rightly.
Secondary boot loader is ordinary system loader. If standard MBR’s loader will pass control to this
loader (i.e. you have QNX partition marked as active), the QNX will boot absolutely normally.
so if someone succeeded in installing QNX DIRECTLY in a logical partition
(booting with the CD and not installing like another progs in Windows
please) i’ll be very curious to see that, explain me please !
There is no way at the moment 
Best regards,
Eduard.
kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp> > a écrit dans le message de news:
a3m0e4$j0g$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Is it possible to install QNX on a logical partition ?
I think i’ve the answer (no) but perhaps someone succeeded.
Yes, succeeded
URL:> http://www.dais.is.tohoku.ac.jp/~kabe/vsd/qnx/QNXext.html
system starts boot process but it only writes 5 full dot lines and stop
like that …
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… (it’s stopping here)
Seems you didn’t install the bootloader to the PBR
kabe