dell Dimension boot problem

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I installed QNX6.2 on a Dell Dimension L1000R. It works fine, but the
problem is I always need to boot from floppy. No menu appears to choose QNX
when I boot from disk. I installed QNX6.2 through windows2000 and checked
the config.sys as indicated in the readme file.
Could anyone help me???

Thanks a lot!
Cesar

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Win2K doesn’t use DOS as a kick-start and so the config.sys isn’t used. With
NT kernels you are pretty much required to use a boot floppy. Although I
understand some people have come up with ways to use the NT loader to
boot QNX.

chris


Cesar <cesarida@inf.ufrgs.br> wrote:

I installed QNX6.2 on a Dell Dimension L1000R. It works fine, but the
problem is I always need to boot from floppy. No menu appears to choose QNX
when I boot from disk. I installed QNX6.2 through windows2000 and checked
the config.sys as indicated in the readme file.
Could anyone help me???

Thanks a lot!
Cesar

–
Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/

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Did you install QNX into own partition? Or into file on FAT partition?

Eduard.
ed1k at ukr dot net

Cesar <cesarida@inf.ufrgs.br> wrote in article <adonl3$pce$1@inn.qnx.com>…

I installed QNX6.2 on a Dell Dimension L1000R. It works fine, but the
problem is I always need to boot from floppy. No menu appears to choose QNX
when I boot from disk. I installed QNX6.2 through windows2000 and checked
the config.sys as indicated in the readme file.
Could anyone help me???

Thanks a lot!
Cesar

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I installed into file on a windows2000 partition

“ed1k” <ed1k@spamerstrap.com> escreveu na mensagem
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Did you install QNX into own partition? Or into file on FAT partition?

Eduard.
ed1k at ukr dot net

Cesar <> cesarida@inf.ufrgs.br> > wrote in article
adonl3$pce$> 1@inn.qnx.com> >…
I installed QNX6.2 on a Dell Dimension L1000R. It works fine, but the
problem is I always need to boot from floppy. No menu appears to choose
QNX
when I boot from disk. I installed QNX6.2 through windows2000 and
checked
the config.sys as indicated in the readme file.
Could anyone help me???

Thanks a lot!
Cesar

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Cesar,
Windows 2000 native filesystem is NTFS 5, I have a doubt concerning you have installed QNXRTP into
NTFS partition. I suppose you’re using FAT filesystem for bootable partition (as a rule it’s disk
c:). I’m not sure about license issues (I believe there is some old version of DOS for free :wink:
isn’t?), but technically you could use DOS as kick-start for booting QNX. You have to do ‘sys a:
c:’ in DOS while there is your boot floppy (DOS bootable floppy) in drive a:. You will loss windows
2000 booting. Save bootsector of disk c: into file c:\bootsect.dos. Launch winnt setup program and
repair bootsector. In boot.ini file, add the line:
c:=“QNXRTP kickstarted by DOS :wink:”
Regards.

Eduard.
ed1k at ukr dot net

Cesar <cesarida@inf.ufrgs.br> wrote in article <adqo46$d0f$1@inn.qnx.com>…

I installed into file on a windows2000 partition

“ed1k” <> ed1k@spamerstrap.com> > escreveu na mensagem
news:01c20df2$24815e60$106fa8c0@ED1K…
Did you install QNX into own partition? Or into file on FAT partition?

Eduard.
ed1k at ukr dot net

Cesar <> cesarida@inf.ufrgs.br> > wrote in article
adonl3$pce$> 1@inn.qnx.com> >…
I installed QNX6.2 on a Dell Dimension L1000R. It works fine, but the
problem is I always need to boot from floppy. No menu appears to choose
QNX
when I boot from disk. I installed QNX6.2 through windows2000 and
checked
the config.sys as indicated in the readme file.
Could anyone help me???

Thanks a lot!
Cesar


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