Hi i just purchased qnx2 and I inserted the floppy as stated in the
documentation and the machine only gives a black screen.There is no prompt
as I was told I would get in the documentation to type qnz as a new user and
then install.Everything I type stays on this black screen and nothing else
happens. Any ideas?
Howard <howardd@trafficsys.com> wrote:
Hi i just purchased qnx2 and I inserted the floppy as stated in the
documentation and the machine only gives a black screen.There is no prompt
as I was told I would get in the documentation to type qnz as a new user and
then install.Everything I type stays on this black screen and nothing else
happens. Any ideas?
What sort of hardware are you trying to boot this on? (QNX2 is quite an
old OS, it won’t support or boot/run properly on anything much faster than
a 100 Mhz Pentium, it requires a traditional floppy controller, not an
LS-120, it doesn’t understand EIDE or LBA, etc.)
-David
QNX Training Services
dagibbs@qnx.com
Well i started off on a PIII700 which seems a lost cause.The system I am
working on now ran qnx for several years until the hard drive failed.This is
why am in the current situation.I have a new hard drive in it now and am
trying to work from there but the install still seems to hang up even when I
get the very end and it asks me to remove the floppy and hit control alt
shift delete.The machine does not reboot and appears to lock up.Upon
restarting the machine also freezes up so I am at that point currently.Id
like to get the system running to install my 3rd party programs and just fix
up/replace some old parts to get it back out in the field and off my bench.
“David Gibbs” <dagibbs@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:96jn24$85j$2@nntp.qnx.com…
Howard <> howardd@trafficsys.com> > wrote:
Hi i just purchased qnx2 and I inserted the floppy as stated in the
documentation and the machine only gives a black screen.There is no
prompt
as I was told I would get in the documentation to type qnz as a new user
and
then install.Everything I type stays on this black screen and nothing
else
happens. Any ideas?What sort of hardware are you trying to boot this on? (QNX2 is quite an
old OS, it won’t support or boot/run properly on anything much faster than
a 100 Mhz Pentium, it requires a traditional floppy controller, not an
LS-120, it doesn’t understand EIDE or LBA, etc.)-David
QNX Training Services
dagibbs@qnx.com
you will want to get an older hdisk that doesn’t use lba, or that can
be configured from your machines bios to not use lba mode.
some of the bios’s in the older machines let you force lba mode to off
(disable)… i have an older P133 that i use in this way with qnx2.
qnx2 was developed in 85. and it was effectively frozen around 1993. it is
still a very usable OS but it has not been brought forward with new hardware.
… you could liken it to DOS 2.0 or earlier…
Howard <howardd@trafficsys.com> wrote:
Well i started off on a PIII700 which seems a lost cause.The system I am
working on now ran qnx for several years until the hard drive failed.This is
why am in the current situation.I have a new hard drive in it now and am
trying to work from there but the install still seems to hang up even when I
get the very end and it asks me to remove the floppy and hit control alt
shift delete.The machine does not reboot and appears to lock up.Upon
restarting the machine also freezes up so I am at that point currently.Id
like to get the system running to install my 3rd party programs and just fix
up/replace some old parts to get it back out in the field and off my bench.
“David Gibbs” <> dagibbs@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:96jn24$85j$> 2@nntp.qnx.com> …
Howard <> howardd@trafficsys.com> > wrote:
Hi i just purchased qnx2 and I inserted the floppy as stated in the
documentation and the machine only gives a black screen.There is no
prompt
as I was told I would get in the documentation to type qnz as a new user
and
then install.Everything I type stays on this black screen and nothing
else
happens. Any ideas?What sort of hardware are you trying to boot this on? (QNX2 is quite an
old OS, it won’t support or boot/run properly on anything much faster than
a 100 Mhz Pentium, it requires a traditional floppy controller, not an
LS-120, it doesn’t understand EIDE or LBA, etc.)-David
QNX Training Services
dagibbs@qnx.com
–
Randy Martin randy@qnx.com
Manager of FAE Group, North America
QNX Software Systems www.qnx.com
175 Terence Matthews Crescent, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
Tel: 613-591-0931 Fax: 613-591-3579
I turned off LBA and made the computer think the hard drive is much smaller.
Before I did that the boot disk wouldnt even boot.I now can at least fully
install and by choosing a DOS boot instead of the qnx loader the shift
control alt delete now reboots the machine after the install, but when I
reboot to run qnx for the first time the system hangs after it says “booting
partition 1” with an arrow under it.
“Randy Martin” <randy@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:96k21f$dsd$2@nntp.qnx.com…
you will want to get an older hdisk that doesn’t use lba, or that can
be configured from your machines bios to not use lba mode.
some of the bios’s in the older machines let you force lba mode to off
(disable)… i have an older P133 that i use in this way with qnx2.qnx2 was developed in 85. and it was effectively frozen around 1993. it is
still a very usable OS but it has not been brought forward with new
hardware.
… you could liken it to DOS 2.0 or earlier…Howard <> howardd@trafficsys.com> > wrote:
Well i started off on a PIII700 which seems a lost cause.The system I am
working on now ran qnx for several years until the hard drive
failed.This is
why am in the current situation.I have a new hard drive in it now and am
trying to work from there but the install still seems to hang up even
when I
get the very end and it asks me to remove the floppy and hit control alt
shift delete.The machine does not reboot and appears to lock up.Upon
restarting the machine also freezes up so I am at that point
currently.Id
like to get the system running to install my 3rd party programs and just
fix
up/replace some old parts to get it back out in the field and off my
bench.
“David Gibbs” <> dagibbs@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:96jn24$85j$> 2@nntp.qnx.com> …
Howard <> howardd@trafficsys.com> > wrote:
Hi i just purchased qnx2 and I inserted the floppy as stated in the
documentation and the machine only gives a black screen.There is no
prompt
as I was told I would get in the documentation to type qnz as a new
user
and
then install.Everything I type stays on this black screen and nothing
else
happens. Any ideas?What sort of hardware are you trying to boot this on? (QNX2 is quite
an
old OS, it won’t support or boot/run properly on anything much faster
than
a 100 Mhz Pentium, it requires a traditional floppy controller, not an
LS-120, it doesn’t understand EIDE or LBA, etc.)-David
QNX Training Services
dagibbs@qnx.com
\Randy Martin > randy@qnx.com
Manager of FAE Group, North America
QNX Software Systems > www.qnx.com
175 Terence Matthews Crescent, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
Tel: 613-591-0931 Fax: 613-591-3579
what is likely happening is that your disk boot is getting different values
for # of heads and # of sectors/track than when you boot from floppy.
when you boot from floppy and run the fdisk program and it displays the
heads, tracks and sectors/track values, these must be the same values
(heads and sectors/track at a minimum) that your bios is programmed to.
you will likely want to check this from both fdisk and your cmos/bios…
Howard <howardd@trafficsys.com> wrote:
I turned off LBA and made the computer think the hard drive is much smaller.
Before I did that the boot disk wouldnt even boot.I now can at least fully
install and by choosing a DOS boot instead of the qnx loader the shift
control alt delete now reboots the machine after the install, but when I
reboot to run qnx for the first time the system hangs after it says “booting
partition 1” with an arrow under it.“Randy Martin” <> randy@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:96k21f$dsd$> 2@nntp.qnx.com> …
you will want to get an older hdisk that doesn’t use lba, or that can
be configured from your machines bios to not use lba mode.
some of the bios’s in the older machines let you force lba mode to off
(disable)… i have an older P133 that i use in this way with qnx2.qnx2 was developed in 85. and it was effectively frozen around 1993. it is
still a very usable OS but it has not been brought forward with new
hardware.
… you could liken it to DOS 2.0 or earlier…Howard <> howardd@trafficsys.com> > wrote:
Well i started off on a PIII700 which seems a lost cause.The system I am
working on now ran qnx for several years until the hard drive
failed.This is
why am in the current situation.I have a new hard drive in it now and am
trying to work from there but the install still seems to hang up even
when I
get the very end and it asks me to remove the floppy and hit control alt
shift delete.The machine does not reboot and appears to lock up.Upon
restarting the machine also freezes up so I am at that point
currently.Id
like to get the system running to install my 3rd party programs and just
fix
up/replace some old parts to get it back out in the field and off my
bench.
“David Gibbs” <> dagibbs@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:96jn24$85j$> 2@nntp.qnx.com> …
Howard <> howardd@trafficsys.com> > wrote:
Hi i just purchased qnx2 and I inserted the floppy as stated in the
documentation and the machine only gives a black screen.There is no
prompt
as I was told I would get in the documentation to type qnz as a new
user
and
then install.Everything I type stays on this black screen and nothing
else
happens. Any ideas?What sort of hardware are you trying to boot this on? (QNX2 is quite
an
old OS, it won’t support or boot/run properly on anything much faster
than
a 100 Mhz Pentium, it requires a traditional floppy controller, not an
LS-120, it doesn’t understand EIDE or LBA, etc.)-David
QNX Training Services
dagibbs@qnx.com
\Randy Martin > randy@qnx.com
Manager of FAE Group, North America
QNX Software Systems > www.qnx.com
175 Terence Matthews Crescent, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
Tel: 613-591-0931 Fax: 613-591-3579
–
Randy Martin randy@qnx.com
Manager of FAE Group, North America
QNX Software Systems www.qnx.com
175 Terence Matthews Crescent, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
Tel: 613-591-0931 Fax: 613-591-3579
Thanks for the information it would appear that my hard drive was too large
and even by forcing the values into the cmos and the qnx program it would
not install properly.I have since installed it on a smaller hard drive which
seems to have installed properly.Thanks to all who helped.Now its on to my
next problems so I guess ill start a new thread.
“Randy Martin” <randy@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:96rdua$njt$1@nntp.qnx.com…
what is likely happening is that your disk boot is getting different
values
for # of heads and # of sectors/track than when you boot from floppy.
when you boot from floppy and run the fdisk program and it displays the
heads, tracks and sectors/track values, these must be the same values
(heads and sectors/track at a minimum) that your bios is programmed to.you will likely want to check this from both fdisk and your cmos/bios…
Howard <> howardd@trafficsys.com> > wrote:
I turned off LBA and made the computer think the hard drive is much
smaller.
Before I did that the boot disk wouldnt even boot.I now can at least
fully
install and by choosing a DOS boot instead of the qnx loader the shift
control alt delete now reboots the machine after the install, but when I
reboot to run qnx for the first time the system hangs after it says
“booting
partition 1” with an arrow under it.“Randy Martin” <> randy@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:96k21f$dsd$> 2@nntp.qnx.com> …
you will want to get an older hdisk that doesn’t use lba, or that can
be configured from your machines bios to not use lba mode.
some of the bios’s in the older machines let you force lba mode to off
(disable)… i have an older P133 that i use in this way with qnx2.qnx2 was developed in 85. and it was effectively frozen around 1993. it
is
still a very usable OS but it has not been brought forward with new
hardware.
… you could liken it to DOS 2.0 or earlier…Howard <> howardd@trafficsys.com> > wrote:
Well i started off on a PIII700 which seems a lost cause.The system I
am
working on now ran qnx for several years until the hard drive
failed.This is
why am in the current situation.I have a new hard drive in it now and
am
trying to work from there but the install still seems to hang up even
when I
get the very end and it asks me to remove the floppy and hit control
alt
shift delete.The machine does not reboot and appears to lock up.Upon
restarting the machine also freezes up so I am at that point
currently.Id
like to get the system running to install my 3rd party programs and
just
fix
up/replace some old parts to get it back out in the field and off my
bench.
“David Gibbs” <> dagibbs@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:96jn24$85j$> 2@nntp.qnx.com> …
Howard <> howardd@trafficsys.com> > wrote:
Hi i just purchased qnx2 and I inserted the floppy as stated in
the
documentation and the machine only gives a black screen.There is
no
prompt
as I was told I would get in the documentation to type qnz as a
new
user
and
then install.Everything I type stays on this black screen and
nothing
else
happens. Any ideas?What sort of hardware are you trying to boot this on? (QNX2 is
quite
an
old OS, it won’t support or boot/run properly on anything much
faster
than
a 100 Mhz Pentium, it requires a traditional floppy controller, not
an
LS-120, it doesn’t understand EIDE or LBA, etc.)-David
QNX Training Services
dagibbs@qnx.com
\Randy Martin > randy@qnx.com
Manager of FAE Group, North America
QNX Software Systems > www.qnx.com
175 Terence Matthews Crescent, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
Tel: 613-591-0931 Fax: 613-591-3579
\Randy Martin > randy@qnx.com
Manager of FAE Group, North America
QNX Software Systems > www.qnx.com
175 Terence Matthews Crescent, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
Tel: 613-591-0931 Fax: 613-591-3579