I read the XP posting just above me, but it did not give me any
insight. I am trying to install QNX RTP on a system running WIN XP
(NTFS). I would like to do a partition install, so I created a
partition using System Commander 7 (the partition is 674MB and is near
the beginning of the hard drive). The partition is a free primary
partition. I created the RTP CD and attempted to boot from it and got
the following:
Press Esc for alternate OS…D_ (cursor
continues flashing).
The system hangs here. I then made a boot floppy and used it. It
booted all the way and displayed the following:
No QNX 6.1 or greater filesystems available for mount.
Any suggestions?
I even tried to install QNX 4 on this partition and had problems. The
hardware detection phase seemed to work OK. I got to the point in the
installation where it asked to put in the CD. I did this and it seems
that the CD cannot be recognized (I keep getting the message to insert
the CD and click OK when I perform the Next (F2) operation during the
installation at this point.
did you create the primary partition for QNX RTP before winXP? if yes,
i’d suggest you to make it behind winXP. this way it worked on a winNT4
station some weeks ago. and i think it should work at your’s, too.
I do not know what you mean by masterless IDE devices.
Are your IDE-Devices jumpered as “slave”?
I’ve also heard of a problem of QNX RTP 6.1 in a chatroom … that it
refuses to install from one disk controller to another one. In my case this
was from the SCSI-controller (CDROM) to the IDE-1 (HDD). The problem shall
be solved in the forthcoming version 6.2.
The RTP partition was before WIN XP. I moved the partition to the back
(behind XP) and found that when I tried to boot XP from System Commander 7,
the boot started, but froze on the screen before the login screen.
Therefore, I did not try to install RTP (I am moving the partition to the
front again to see if XP can still boot).
Daniel Meszaros wrote:
The partition is a free primary partition.
did you create the primary partition for QNX RTP before winXP? if yes,
i’d suggest you to make it behind winXP. this way it worked on a winNT4
station some weeks ago. and i think it should work at your’s, too.
I got RTP to install, but the circumstances were very strange. My PC has the following IDE devices
installed:
Hard Disk: Primary (master) on channel (connector) #1
No Device: Secondary (slave) on channel (connector) #1
DVD-ROM Primary (master) on channel #2
CD R/W Secondary (slave) on channel #2
RTP would not install as above. I tried the following:
Removed the CD R/W device - NO HELP
Removed the DVD-ROM and made the CD R/W the master - THIS WORKED!
I was able to install RTP, but now it appears that I have a problem with the mouse. I seems that
the cursor representation is off to the right about 1/2" from the sensed position. In the vertical
direction, there is no problem. Is there some sort of a calibration program that can be used in RTP
for the mouse?
I tried to install QNX 4 as a test (on another partition) using only the CD R/W as a master like
above, but it would not work. When it got to the point in the installation to install the QNX CD, I
did, but it would not recognize it (the screen that said insert the CD and press OK to continue kept
being displayed again when I tried to continue.
Thanks,
Dan Szymanski
ed1k wrote:
I mean IDE device which has jumpered as “slave” but there is no “master” device on the same IDE
channel. This is ILLEGAL >
Cheers.
I got RTP to install, but the circumstances were very strange. My PC has the following IDE
devices
installed:
Hard Disk: Primary (master) on channel (connector) #1
No Device: Secondary (slave) on channel (connector) #1
DVD-ROM Primary (master) on channel #2
CD R/W Secondary (slave) on channel #2
RTP would not install as above. I tried the following:
Removed the CD R/W device - NO HELP
Removed the DVD-ROM and made the CD R/W the master - THIS WORKED!
Yes, I heard few times about this. Seems DVD-ROMs are the problem for QNXRTP 6.1 installation
procedure.
I was able to install RTP, but now it appears that I have a problem with the mouse. I seems that
the cursor representation is off to the right about 1/2" from the sensed position. In the
vertical
direction, there is no problem. Is there some sort of a calibration program that can be used in
RTP
for the mouse?
I can not tell anything about such program, I don’t know this one. I’d suggest to try the new
devi-hirun driver from developers.qnx.com or play around software/hardware cursor in video
settings. I also heard about this problem on russian forum (forum.qnx.org.ru) but don’t remember
solutions . As a try you could look around for the new Nvidia GeForce driver as well.
Best regards.