Making boot disks and embedding onto DOC

Hello - I’m new to QNX and have been tossed into the thick of things. I
need to know how to create a QNX boot disk (floppy) for a WinSystems PCM-SX
PC-104 card that utilizes a DiskOnChip flash-disk. I have QNX Neutrino
installed on my computer so I would like to take it from there. Eventually,
I will need to boot the PCM-SX from the flash disk itself.

Can anyone point me to the (any) documentation on how to go about doing
this? I am assuming that I need to create or find a buildfile for this
card, that includes the drivers for the DOC as well as the mkdisk utility so
that as the system is running off of the floppy, I can then format teh DOC
and somhow get the image over there.

Any pointers, documentation or just help in general will be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in Advance,

Dave Herold

I don’t know if you’ll get all the utils on to a floppy disk that you’ll
need to transfer the image and format the DOC. Why don’t you just boot from
an IDE then transfer the image to the DOC. I have done this and it works
great. (Except for the fact that I have to unplug the IDE everytime I want
test the DOC.)

Here is a link to the embedded docs, it’s a good place to get started.
http://qdn.qnx.com/support/docs/embedding_sdk_en/building/about.html

Asking more specific questions will yield a better response.


“David Herold” <dherold@scisol.com> wrote in message
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Hello - I’m new to QNX and have been tossed into the thick of things. I
need to know how to create a QNX boot disk (floppy) for a WinSystems
PCM-SX
PC-104 card that utilizes a DiskOnChip flash-disk. I have QNX Neutrino
installed on my computer so I would like to take it from there.
Eventually,
I will need to boot the PCM-SX from the flash disk itself.

Can anyone point me to the (any) documentation on how to go about doing
this? I am assuming that I need to create or find a buildfile for this
card, that includes the drivers for the DOC as well as the mkdisk utility
so
that as the system is running off of the floppy, I can then format teh DOC
and somhow get the image over there.

Any pointers, documentation or just help in general will be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in Advance,

Dave Herold
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Paul Vander Byl <paul@gandacar.ca> wrote:
: Here is a link to the embedded docs, it’s a good place to get started.
: http://qdn.qnx.com/support/docs/embedding_sdk_en/building/about.html

Here’s the link to the latest version:

http://www.qnx.com/developer/docs/momentics_nc_docs/neutrino/building/about.html


Steve Reid stever@qnx.com
TechPubs (Technical Publications)
QNX Software Systems

Hi

You can refer to my article on building images at
http://www.qnx.com/developer/articles/index.html?article=oct1901b .

Flash disk shouldn’t be a problem as it involves just using the DOC
driver. Standard methods of trasfering the image to disk apply.


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  • mritunjai

http://www.me.iitb.ac.in/~mritun
http://mritun.qnx.org.ru
http://www.qnxzone.com/~mritun

One more thing I’d like to tell… you’ll need 6.0/6.1 or 6.2 SE/PE for
development as the required tools have been removed from 6.2 NC.

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  • mritunjai

http://www.me.iitb.ac.in/~mritun
http://mritun.qnx.org.ru
http://www.qnxzone.com/~mritun

David Herold <dherold@scisol.com> wrote:
| Hello - I’m new to QNX and have been tossed into the thick of things. I
| need to know how to create a QNX boot disk (floppy) for a WinSystems PCM-SX
| PC-104 card that utilizes a DiskOnChip flash-disk. I have QNX Neutrino
| installed on my computer so I would like to take it from there. Eventually,
| I will need to boot the PCM-SX from the flash disk itself.

| Can anyone point me to the (any) documentation on how to go about doing
| this? I am assuming that I need to create or find a buildfile for this
| card, that includes the drivers for the DOC as well as the mkdisk utility so
| that as the system is running off of the floppy, I can then format teh DOC
| and somhow get the image over there.

| Any pointers, documentation or just help in general will be greatly
| appreciated.

| Thanks in Advance,

| Dave Herold