I have QNX RTP installed on the second ide drive on the second
ide chain. The installation went flawlessly. Booting, however,
is a problem… I get:
Press ESC to boot alternate OS…C
And that’s it… It stops at the C and locks the machine… I’ve
created a bootfloppy as if I had QNX RTP installed on the windows
partition, and can boot off that, however I’d much rather not depend
on a boot floppy.
Any ideas?
On 3 Jan 2001, Marcin Dzieciol wrote:
adamk@voicenet.com > wrote:
Hello,
I have QNX RTP installed on the second ide drive on the second
ide chain. The installation went flawlessly. Booting, however,
is a problem… I get:Press ESC to boot alternate OS…C
This is unsupported at this time (second ide chain) and this
information was found in the Knowledge base at > http://qdn.qnx.com> ,
by searching on “booting” you found the following issue:
http://support.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?9607Best Regards,
Marcin
Marcin,
Thanks 
My bad… Thought I had thoroughly checked all
the usual sources… I guess I’ll rearrange my drives and put it on the
primary ide chain. Thanks again.
Adam
adamk@voicenet.com wrote:
Hello,
I have QNX RTP installed on the second ide drive on the second
ide chain. The installation went flawlessly. Booting, however,
is a problem… I get:Press ESC to boot alternate OS…C
This is unsupported at this time (second ide chain) and this
information was found in the Knowledge base at http://qdn.qnx.com,
by searching on “booting” you found the following issue:
http://support.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?9607
Best Regards,
Marcin
And that’s it… It stops at the C and locks the machine… I’ve
created a bootfloppy as if I had QNX RTP installed on the windows
partition, and can boot off that, however I’d much rather not depend
on a boot floppy.
Marcin,
I did move the drive to the primary ide chain (secondary drive on
it) and it still stops booting at the same point.
Adam
On 3 Jan 2001, Marcin Dzieciol wrote:
adamk@voicenet.com > wrote:
Hello,
I have QNX RTP installed on the second ide drive on the second
ide chain. The installation went flawlessly. Booting, however,
is a problem… I get:Press ESC to boot alternate OS…C
This is unsupported at this time (second ide chain) and this
information was found in the Knowledge base at > http://qdn.qnx.com> ,
by searching on “booting” you found the following issue:
http://support.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?9607Best Regards,
Marcin
And that’s it… It stops at the C and locks the machine… I’ve
created a bootfloppy as if I had QNX RTP installed on the windows
partition, and can boot off that, however I’d much rather not depend
on a boot floppy.
I have QNX RTP installed on the second ide drive on the second
ide chain. The installation went flawlessly. Booting, however,
is a problem… I get:Press ESC to boot alternate OS…C
This is unsupported at this time (second ide chain) and this
information was found in the Knowledge base at > http://qdn.qnx.com> ,
by searching on “booting” you found the following issue:
http://support.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?9607
This is true, the QNX bootloader can’t boot the OS from secondary IDE.
Most recent BIOS’s however, will let you do this. For example in my
Award bios (pIII) there is a “boot” section which allows me to choose
which IDE device gets booted from. This means every time you want to
boot a different OS I go into the BIOS and change this setting.
Chris Foran <cforan@qnx.com> wrote:
I have QNX RTP installed on the second ide drive on the second
ide chain. The installation went flawlessly. Booting, however,
is a problem… I get:Press ESC to boot alternate OS…C
This is unsupported at this time (second ide chain) and this
information was found in the Knowledge base at > http://qdn.qnx.com> ,
by searching on “booting” you found the following issue:
http://support.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?9607
This is true, the QNX bootloader can’t boot the OS from secondary IDE.
Most recent BIOS’s however, will let you do this. For example in my
Award bios (pIII) there is a “boot” section which allows me to choose
which IDE device gets booted from. This means every time you want to
boot a different OS I go into the BIOS and change this setting.
Except that QNX wouldn’t boot even when I moved the drive to the primary
IDE chain. It still stops at the same place.
Adam
“Adam K Kirchhoff” <adamk@voicenet.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.10.10101031916270.945-100000@sorrow.ashke.com…
I did move the drive to the primary ide chain (secondary drive on
it) and it still stops booting at the same point.
Try reinstalling it. It may have written something into the boot loader
indicating it should be on the 2nd ide controller even though it wouldn’t be
able to boot it there anyway?
Marisa
Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> wrote:
Marcin,
I did move the drive to the primary ide chain (secondary drive on
it) and it still stops booting at the same point.
Hello,
It should be installed to a primary master (first drive) on your system.
There is also a good knowledge base entry on the topic at:
http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10227
or
you can try a sugestion made by Chris Foran to change the boot sequence
in your mobo’s BIOS (if your BIOS allows you do it).
Regards,
Marcin
Adam
On 3 Jan 2001, Marcin Dzieciol wrote:
adamk@voicenet.com > wrote:
Hello,
I have QNX RTP installed on the second ide drive on the second
ide chain. The installation went flawlessly. Booting, however,
is a problem… I get:Press ESC to boot alternate OS…C
This is unsupported at this time (second ide chain) and this
information was found in the Knowledge base at > http://qdn.qnx.com> ,
by searching on “booting” you found the following issue:
http://support.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?9607Best Regards,
Marcin
And that’s it… It stops at the C and locks the machine… I’ve
created a bootfloppy as if I had QNX RTP installed on the windows
partition, and can boot off that, however I’d much rather not depend
on a boot floppy.
\
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Marcin Dzieciol
Technical Support
QNX Software Systems Ltd.
Email: <marcind@qnx.com>
Marcin Dzieciol <marcind@qnx.com> wrote:
Adam K Kirchhoff <> adamk@voicenet.com> > wrote:
Marcin,
I did move the drive to the primary ide chain (secondary drive on
it) and it still stops booting at the same point.Hello,
It should be installed to a primary master (first drive) on your system.
There is also a good knowledge base entry on the topic at:
http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10227or
you can try a sugestion made by Chris Foran to change the boot sequence
in your mobo’s BIOS (if your BIOS allows you do it).Regards,
Marcin
Thanks… I’ll give it a whirl.
Adam