6.1 Installation woes

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1

Hi,

I’ve been trying unsuccessfully to get 6.1 to run on my IBM T21 ThinkPad.

Following is a summary of my experience. Any suggestions welcome:

  • The laptop has Windows 2000 installed on a FAT32 disk (also has Linux
    2.4.3, but that irrelevant), 7GB free.
  • I understand that I need to repartition the disk to install QNX, although
    a colleague has reported success in installing directly under Windows 2000.
    Trying a Windows install and booting from a diskette results in a system
    hang at some stage of the boot process.
  • Is there a way to use the Windows 2000 loader to choose between Win2000,
    Linux, and QNX? I’ve currently set it up to select between Win2k and Linux,
    and would really prefer not to replace it with QNX’s loader (or LILO, for
    that matter).
  • Writing and verifying the boot diskette is very slow, as well as trying
    to boot from it. The same drive works fine under Win2k and Linux. Has anyone
    else had this problem?

Thanks,

Rony

2

Hello,

Take a look at the following knowledge base entry.
http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10377

Regards,
Dave B.


Rony Shapiro <rshapiro@everbee.com> wrote:

Hi,

I’ve been trying unsuccessfully to get 6.1 to run on my IBM T21 ThinkPad.

Following is a summary of my experience. Any suggestions welcome:

  • The laptop has Windows 2000 installed on a FAT32 disk (also has Linux
    2.4.3, but that irrelevant), 7GB free.
  • I understand that I need to repartition the disk to install QNX, although
    a colleague has reported success in installing directly under Windows 2000.
    Trying a Windows install and booting from a diskette results in a system
    hang at some stage of the boot process.
  • Is there a way to use the Windows 2000 loader to choose between Win2000,
    Linux, and QNX? I’ve currently set it up to select between Win2k and Linux,
    and would really prefer not to replace it with QNX’s loader (or LILO, for
    that matter).
  • Writing and verifying the boot diskette is very slow, as well as trying
    to boot from it. The same drive works fine under Win2k and Linux. Has anyone
    else had this problem?

Thanks,

Rony

3

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the quick reply.

The knowledge base entry implies that it should be possible to install QNX
under win2k and boot from a boot disk.

Is this correct? If so, then there’s a problem in that the boot fails after
reading the boot diskette (very slowly) on my machine.

Cheers,

Rony

“Applications Mail Group” <apps@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:9ihlmr$k60$1@nntp.qnx.com…

Hello,

Take a look at the following knowledge base entry.
http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10377

Regards,
Dave B.


Rony Shapiro <> rshapiro@everbee.com> > wrote:
Hi,

I’ve been trying unsuccessfully to get 6.1 to run on my IBM T21
ThinkPad.

Following is a summary of my experience. Any suggestions welcome:

  • The laptop has Windows 2000 installed on a FAT32 disk (also has Linux
    2.4.3, but that irrelevant), 7GB free.
  • I understand that I need to repartition the disk to install QNX,
    although
    a colleague has reported success in installing directly under Windows

Trying a Windows install and booting from a diskette results in a system
hang at some stage of the boot process.

  • Is there a way to use the Windows 2000 loader to choose between
    Win2000,
    Linux, and QNX? I’ve currently set it up to select between Win2k and
    Linux,
    and would really prefer not to replace it with QNX’s loader (or LILO,
    for
    that matter).
  • Writing and verifying the boot diskette is very slow, as well as
    trying
    to boot from it. The same drive works fine under Win2k and Linux. Has
    anyone
    else had this problem?

Thanks,

Rony

4

Hello Rony,

Are you using NTFS or FAT for your windows 2000?
If you are using NTFS you can’t install QNX 6.x on your Windows.
If you’re using FAT you may have to make your floppy disk over again.
You can re-run the setup of QNX 6.x and select the Make Floppy button to recreate your boot floppy.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Dave B.



Rony Shapiro <rshapiro@everbee.com> wrote:

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the quick reply.

The knowledge base entry implies that it should be possible to install QNX
under win2k and boot from a boot disk.

Is this correct? If so, then there’s a problem in that the boot fails after
reading the boot diskette (very slowly) on my machine.

Cheers,

Rony

“Applications Mail Group” <> apps@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:9ihlmr$k60$> 1@nntp.qnx.com> …
Hello,

Take a look at the following knowledge base entry.
http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10377

Regards,
Dave B.


Rony Shapiro <> rshapiro@everbee.com> > wrote:
Hi,

I’ve been trying unsuccessfully to get 6.1 to run on my IBM T21
ThinkPad.

Following is a summary of my experience. Any suggestions welcome:

  • The laptop has Windows 2000 installed on a FAT32 disk (also has Linux
    2.4.3, but that irrelevant), 7GB free.
  • I understand that I need to repartition the disk to install QNX,
    although
    a colleague has reported success in installing directly under Windows

Trying a Windows install and booting from a diskette results in a system
hang at some stage of the boot process.

  • Is there a way to use the Windows 2000 loader to choose between
    Win2000,
    Linux, and QNX? I’ve currently set it up to select between Win2k and
    Linux,
    and would really prefer not to replace it with QNX’s loader (or LILO,
    for
    that matter).
  • Writing and verifying the boot diskette is very slow, as well as
    trying
    to boot from it. The same drive works fine under Win2k and Linux. Has
    anyone
    else had this problem?

Thanks,

Rony

5

Hi…

Applications Mail Group wrote:

Hello Rony,

Are you using NTFS or FAT for your windows 2000?
If you are using NTFS you can’t install QNX 6.x on your Windows.
If you’re using FAT you may have to make your floppy disk over again.
You can re-run the setup of QNX 6.x and select the Make Floppy button to recreate your boot floppy.

If you are using NTFS, create a second partition (d:) which is FAT,
then install onto this partition. This is the way I did it.
Alternatively, get partition magic 6.0 -compatible with win2k- and
create a partition on which to install rtp 6.1. In this case you do not
need a floppy -provided you can create the partition in the first place
any way-, but you will not be able to read your NTFS partition.

Bests…

Miguel

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Dave B.

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Miguel Simon
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School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Oklahoma
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http://www.saic.com

6

Hi,

Thanks to all for your suggestions. It now seems that the problem has
nothing to do with bootdisks, partitions or filesystems:

I’ve just tried to boot 6.1 directly from the CD, choosing “run from
CD-ROM”. This works on one machine, but on my laptop (*), QNX appears to
hang after printing the following two lines:

/usr/photon/bin/devgt-iographics -dldevg -svga.so -I0 -d0x5333,0x8c12
/usr/photon/bin/devgt-iographics -dldevg -svesabios.so -I0 -d0x5333,0x8c12

Hitting esc when prompted for .altboot resulted in a hung machine.

What now?

Rony

(*) Thinkpad T21


“Rony Shapiro” <rshapiro@everbee.com> wrote in message
news:9ih2sr$3ch$1@inn.qnx.com…

Hi,

I’ve been trying unsuccessfully to get 6.1 to run on my IBM T21 ThinkPad.

Following is a summary of my experience. Any suggestions welcome:

  • The laptop has Windows 2000 installed on a FAT32 disk (also has Linux
    2.4.3, but that irrelevant), 7GB free.
  • I understand that I need to repartition the disk to install QNX,
    although
    a colleague has reported success in installing directly under Windows

Trying a Windows install and booting from a diskette results in a system
hang at some stage of the boot process.

  • Is there a way to use the Windows 2000 loader to choose between Win2000,
    Linux, and QNX? I’ve currently set it up to select between Win2k and
    Linux,
    and would really prefer not to replace it with QNX’s loader (or LILO, for
    that matter).
  • Writing and verifying the boot diskette is very slow, as well as
    trying
    to boot from it. The same drive works fine under Win2k and Linux. Has
    anyone
    else had this problem?

Thanks,

Rony

7

Hi,

Just to follow up:

On a Thinkpad T21, hitting space during boot and disabling the plug and play
ISA enumerator managed to get QNX to finish booting. (Thanks to qnx support
for pointing me to this)

Turns out that this left the serial interface unavailable, though. Add this
to the unsupported network card, and I’ve decided that it’s easier to find
another PC…

Thanks to all for your advice,

Rony

“Rony Shapiro” <rshapiro@everbee.com> wrote in message
news:9ijepf$hjo$1@inn.qnx.com…

Hi,

Thanks to all for your suggestions. It now seems that the problem has
nothing to do with bootdisks, partitions or filesystems:

I’ve just tried to boot 6.1 directly from the CD, choosing “run from
CD-ROM”. This works on one machine, but on my laptop (*), QNX appears to
hang after printing the following two lines:

/usr/photon/bin/devgt-iographics -dldevg -svga.so -I0 -d0x5333,0x8c12
/usr/photon/bin/devgt-iographics -dldevg -svesabios.so -I0 -d0x5333,0x8c12

Hitting esc when prompted for .altboot resulted in a hung machine.

What now?

Rony

(*) Thinkpad T21


“Rony Shapiro” <> rshapiro@everbee.com> > wrote in message
news:9ih2sr$3ch$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Hi,

I’ve been trying unsuccessfully to get 6.1 to run on my IBM T21
ThinkPad.

Following is a summary of my experience. Any suggestions welcome:

  • The laptop has Windows 2000 installed on a FAT32 disk (also has Linux
    2.4.3, but that irrelevant), 7GB free.
  • I understand that I need to repartition the disk to install QNX,
    although
    a colleague has reported success in installing directly under Windows

Trying a Windows install and booting from a diskette results in a system
hang at some stage of the boot process.

  • Is there a way to use the Windows 2000 loader to choose between
    Win2000,
    Linux, and QNX? I’ve currently set it up to select between Win2k and
    Linux,
    and would really prefer not to replace it with QNX’s loader (or LILO,
    for
    that matter).
  • Writing and verifying the boot diskette is very slow, as well as
    trying
    to boot from it. The same drive works fine under Win2k and Linux. Has
    anyone
    else had this problem?

Thanks,

Rony
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