Hi!
I have two phisical harddisks. One contains Win2k and on second I have QNX
Neutrino NC installed.
I can boot windows without any problems but when I try to boot QNX it hangs.
I’ve used few boot managers (XOSL, System Commander, BootMagic…) but
nothing helped.
What should I do to be able to boot from second hard disk? When I use CD it
boots correctly and I can use QNX on my second drive…
Thanks for help.
Peter
It is rather painful to make this work. When the partition is created it
needs to be told the BIOS disk number (-d options to dinit). You can try
doing this post-install by booting from the CDROM and doing something like
this…
dinit -b -d 81 /dev/hd1t79
…but I have not tried this myself.
chris
KazeK <kazek@ds2.pg.gda.pl> wrote:
Hi!
I have two phisical harddisks. One contains Win2k and on second I have QNX
Neutrino NC installed.I can boot windows without any problems but when I try to boot QNX it hangs.
I’ve used few boot managers (XOSL, System Commander, BootMagic…) but
nothing helped.What should I do to be able to boot from second hard disk? When I use CD it
boots correctly and I can use QNX on my second drive…Thanks for help.
Peter
–
Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/
KazeK <kazek@ds2.pg.gda.pl> wrote:
What should I do to be able to boot from second hard disk? When I use CD it
boots correctly and I can use QNX on my second drive…
The boot loader is always writing that it is the first hd. You can use
“spatch /dev/hd1t79” (or whatever your partition is) to modify byte 0x11
(should be an 0x80) to be 0x81. 6.2.1 versions of the dinit and dloader
utilities will have a ‘-d’ option which lets you set this directly.
In article <b44d69$bcr$1@inn.qnx.com>, kazek@ds2.pg.gda.pl says…
Hi!
I have two phisical harddisks. One contains Win2k and on second I have QNX
Neutrino NC installed.I can boot windows without any problems but when I try to boot QNX it hangs.
I’ve used few boot managers (XOSL, System Commander, BootMagic…) but
nothing helped.
Ok, third option is to use your existing NT OS Loader.
What should I do to be able to boot from second hard disk? When I use CD it
boots correctly and I can use QNX on my second drive…
Just boot into QNX and save boot sector of QNX partition in a file. Copy this file to NT partition
and change byte with offset 0x11 from 0x80 to 0x81 by any hex editor. Then add entry for QNX in
boot.ini file. That’s all.
For details, take a look at:
http://ed1k.qnxclub.net/nt_qnx.html
Eduard.
Thanks for help.
Peter
“KazeK” <kazek@ds2.pg.gda.pl> wrote in message
news:b44d69$bcr$1@inn.qnx.com…
Hi!
I have two phisical harddisks. One contains Win2k and on second I have QNX
Neutrino NC installed.I can boot windows without any problems but when I try to boot QNX it
hangs.
I’ve used few boot managers (XOSL, System Commander, BootMagic…) but
nothing helped.
In what moment it hangs? Are you sure it is MBR loader that hangs and not OS
loader? Have you tried QNX loader? What kind of computer is it? If you try
QNX loader it will tell you either ?D or ?O should error happen.
I use the QNX loader on one of computers. It allows me to boot anything
either from first or second drive without any magic. I also have a computer
with LILO, which does the job as well. But with LILO you need Linux on you
computer and some playing with /etc/lilo configuration.
What should I do to be able to boot from second hard disk? When I use CD
it
boots correctly and I can use QNX on my second drive…Thanks for help.
Peter
I got this cool unit that has buttons and allows you to physically switch
between harddisks. Got it at Fryes
-Kevin
“KazeK” <kazek@ds2.pg.gda.pl> wrote in message
news:b44d69$bcr$1@inn.qnx.com…
Hi!
I have two phisical harddisks. One contains Win2k and on second I have QNX
Neutrino NC installed.I can boot windows without any problems but when I try to boot QNX it
hangs.
I’ve used few boot managers (XOSL, System Commander, BootMagic…) but
nothing helped.What should I do to be able to boot from second hard disk? When I use CD
it
boots correctly and I can use QNX on my second drive…Thanks for help.
Peter