I have the 6.2 beta on an IBM Thinkpad A22p. It’s got two partitions- one for W2K, one
for QNX.
It hangs during the boot after the dots finish displaying sometimes. When it hangs, all
I see are the
dots and nothing else ever appears on the screen.
It does boot sometimes. I just keep trying until it does, booting W2K in between tries
sometimes, or trying
different delays before I hit the carriage return after selecting the partition. Problem
is I cant find what
causes it to boot or hang.
I don’t think it’s the right place to ask about 6.2 beta. Could you tell some more info: how big
are the partitions? which partition is at begin of disk?
Could you try NT loader instead QNX loader? Is problem still exist?
In QNX:
I have the 6.2 beta on an IBM Thinkpad A22p. It’s got two partitions- one for W2K, one
for QNX.
It hangs during the boot after the dots finish displaying sometimes. When it hangs, all
I see are the
dots and nothing else ever appears on the screen.
It does boot sometimes. I just keep trying until it does, booting W2K in between tries
sometimes, or trying
different delays before I hit the carriage return after selecting the partition. Problem
is I cant find what
causes it to boot or hang.
“ed1k” <ed1k@spamerstrap.com> wrote in message news:01c1da18$f6c28ce0$106fa8c0@ED1K…
Hi Art,
I don’t think it’s the right place to ask about 6.2 beta.
Probably not. However the old beta program I was a member of has been shut down and I dont know
where to post. I would also be running 6.1 if I could, however bugs in it’s PCI code prevent
me from accessing cards in slots that aren’t on bus 0. This is fixed in 6.2, and I’m fortunate to
have
it or I wouldnt be doing any development right now.
Could you tell some more info: how big
are the partitions? which partition is at begin of disk?
The partitions are both about 15G. The QNX partition is the second one, beginning at 15G.
Could you try NT loader instead QNX loader? Is problem still exist?
In QNX:
copy bootsect.qnx from floppy to hard disk (I guess C:)
add in boot.ini file the next line in operating systems section:
[operating systems]
C:\bootsect.qnx=“QNX RealTime Platform 6.2 beta”
I will try this and let you know. Thanks.
Best regards,
Eduard.
ed1k at ukr dot net
Art Hays <> avhays@nih.gov> > wrote in article <a8b5ac$ftq$> 1@inn.qnx.com> >…
I have the 6.2 beta on an IBM Thinkpad A22p. It’s got two partitions- one for W2K, one
for QNX.
It hangs during the boot after the dots finish displaying sometimes. When it hangs, all
I see are the
dots and nothing else ever appears on the screen.
It does boot sometimes. I just keep trying until it does, booting W2K in between tries
sometimes, or trying
different delays before I hit the carriage return after selecting the partition. Problem
is I cant find what
causes it to boot or hang.
“ed1k” <> ed1k@spamerstrap.com> > wrote in message news:01c1da18$f6c28ce0$106fa8c0@ED1K…
Hi Art,
I don’t think it’s the right place to ask about 6.2 beta.
Probably not. However the old beta program I was a member of has been shut down and I dont know
where to post. I would also be running 6.1 if I could, however bugs in it’s PCI code prevent
me from accessing cards in slots that aren’t on bus 0. This is fixed in 6.2, and I’m fortunate
to
have
it or I wouldnt be doing any development right now.
Don’t worry I only meant the right place for beta reporting increases the probabylity of the
QNX developers will pay attention on issue. I am not a member of beta program and I’m unaware of
where is the right place.
Could you tell some more info: how big
are the partitions? which partition is at begin of disk?
The partitions are both about 15G. The QNX partition is the second one, beginning at 15G.
I guess there is something wrong in co-operation of QNX loader and int13h LBA ext of BIOS. Since
you mentioned it happens after dots, the problem is with secondary QNX loader. So, my sugestion
will not work thought. There is good program for using with NT loader
URL=http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
This program will creat loader as a file for using with NT loader and it will add required lines in
boot.ini. The bootpart 2.21a beta or higher supports LBA for disk >8G. But I tell once more, this
trick allows to by-pass the primary QNX loader, not secondary. I think you could play around the
secondary loader (this one lives in boot sector of QNX partition).
I have weird boot problems with a dual boot with W2K also. Mine also dies
during boot… However only in W2K, RTOS 6.1 works perfect no problems. Very
same symptoms as your problem, after the dots… mine is after the progress
bar just before the desktopis displayed. I always thougt it was a Windows
problem. Now I’m thinking it’s an IBM problem. Maybe a little far
fetched???
Wouldn’t it be nice if things worked right all the time!
“ed1k” <ed1k@spamerstrap.com> wrote in message
news:01c1dae1$d4ed41e0$106fa8c0@ED1K…
“ed1k” <> ed1k@spamerstrap.com> > wrote in message
news:01c1da18$f6c28ce0$106fa8c0@ED1K…
Hi Art,
I don’t think it’s the right place to ask about 6.2 beta.
Probably not. However the old beta program I was a member of has been
shut down and I dont know
where to post. I would also be running 6.1 if I could, however bugs in
it’s PCI code prevent
me from accessing cards in slots that aren’t on bus 0. This is fixed in
6.2, and I’m fortunate
to
have
it or I wouldnt be doing any development right now.
Don’t worry > > I only meant the right place for beta reporting increases
the probabylity of the
QNX developers will pay attention on issue. I am not a member of beta
program and I’m unaware of
where is the right place.
Could you tell some more info: how big
are the partitions? which partition is at begin of disk?
The partitions are both about 15G. The QNX partition is the second one,
beginning at 15G.
I guess there is something wrong in co-operation of QNX loader and int13h
LBA ext of BIOS. Since
you mentioned it happens after dots, the problem is with secondary QNX
loader. So, my sugestion
will not work thought. There is good program for using with NT loader
URL=> http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
This program will creat loader as a file for using with NT loader and it
will add required lines in
boot.ini. The bootpart 2.21a beta or higher supports LBA for disk >8G. But
I tell once more, this
trick allows to by-pass the primary QNX loader, not secondary. I think you
could play around the
secondary loader (this one lives in boot sector of QNX partition).
I only meant the right place for beta reporting increases the probabylity of the