A friend of mine tried to bring up QNX, unsuccessfully.
Their comments are below. They get to the point where
hardware identification starts, but then it hangs.
Machine: Dell Dimension 8200 series, P4 processor at 1.7GHz
Graphics board: NVidia GeForce 4 MX.
Keyboard: PS/2, not USB.
Any known problems with late-model Dell machines?
John Nagle
Animats
Hi John –
I’ve created a cd from qnxnc620.iso. I was expecting to be able to
boot my Windows XP Dell PC from that CD. I updated the BIOS settings
to allow me to boot off a CD. When I boot off that CD, after
printing a message about pressing ESC to use .altboot, and a message
about using the NC version of QNX, the system hangs. I tried using
the same CD in another Windows XP PC we have, and it got to the
.altboot message with trailing dots, then it self-rebooted. I
noticed a message on the web about this behavior in QNX 6.0, but they
said it would be fixed in 6.1.
I’ve the same problem with the Dell Dimension 8100 and 8200 here.
QNX told me something about using some keys to get into a manual inst.
mode. But we prefer to use the Win2K hosted solution. It even seems to
be faster.
Tiemo
John Nagle wrote:
A friend of mine tried to bring up QNX, unsuccessfully.
Their comments are below. They get to the point where
hardware identification starts, but then it hangs.
Machine: Dell Dimension 8200 series, P4 processor at 1.7GHz
Graphics board: NVidia GeForce 4 MX.
Keyboard: PS/2, not USB.
Any known problems with late-model Dell machines?
John Nagle
Animats
Hi John –
I’ve created a cd from qnxnc620.iso. I was expecting to be able to
boot my Windows XP Dell PC from that CD. I updated the BIOS settings
to allow me to boot off a CD. When I boot off that CD, after
printing a message about pressing ESC to use .altboot, and a message
about using the NC version of QNX, the system hangs. I tried using
the same CD in another Windows XP PC we have, and it got to the
.altboot message with trailing dots, then it self-rebooted. I
noticed a message on the web about this behavior in QNX 6.0, but they
said it would be fixed in 6.1.
We have just received a DELL system and are looking into the problem.
John Nagle <nagle@downside.com> wrote:
A friend of mine tried to bring up QNX, unsuccessfully.
Their comments are below. They get to the point where
hardware identification starts, but then it hangs.
Machine: Dell Dimension 8200 series, P4 processor at 1.7GHz
Graphics board: NVidia GeForce 4 MX.
Keyboard: PS/2, not USB.
Any known problems with late-model Dell machines?
John Nagle
Animats
Hi John –
I’ve created a cd from qnxnc620.iso. I was expecting to be able to
boot my Windows XP Dell PC from that CD. I updated the BIOS settings
to allow me to boot off a CD. When I boot off that CD, after
printing a message about pressing ESC to use .altboot, and a message
about using the NC version of QNX, the system hangs. I tried using
the same CD in another Windows XP PC we have, and it got to the
.altboot message with trailing dots, then it self-rebooted. I
noticed a message on the web about this behavior in QNX 6.0, but they
said it would be fixed in 6.1.
Thank you. Please let me know what you find.
John Nagle
Kevin Chiles wrote:
We have just received a DELL system and are looking into the problem.
John Nagle <> nagle@downside.com> > wrote:
A friend of mine tried to bring up QNX, unsuccessfully.
Their comments are below. They get to the point where
hardware identification starts, but then it hangs.
Machine: Dell Dimension 8200 series, P4 processor at 1.7GHz
Graphics board: NVidia GeForce 4 MX.
Keyboard: PS/2, not USB.
Any known problems with late-model Dell machines?
John Nagle
Animats
Hi John –
I’ve created a cd from qnxnc620.iso. I was expecting to be able to
boot my Windows XP Dell PC from that CD. I updated the BIOS settings
to allow me to boot off a CD. When I boot off that CD, after
printing a message about pressing ESC to use .altboot, and a message
about using the NC version of QNX, the system hangs. I tried using
the same CD in another Windows XP PC we have, and it got to the
.altboot message with trailing dots, then it self-rebooted. I
noticed a message on the web about this behavior in QNX 6.0, but they
said it would be fixed in 6.1.