I am encountering problems booting my runtime system. We are attempting to
boot from a standard PC. During booting the message “BOOT PARTITION 1 ? 1”
is displayed followed by “HIT esc FOR .altboot”. When esc is hit
everything is booted OK and the system works OK. What files must I edit to
skip the above sequence and get the system to boot correctly on it’s own?
According to the doc, I need to define a /etc/config/sysinit or a
altsysinit file, but this does not appear to work. Can anybody help,
please?
david chivers <david@emulatorsinternational.com> wrote:
I am encountering problems booting my runtime system. We are attempting to
boot from a standard PC. During booting the message “BOOT PARTITION 1 ? 1”
is displayed followed by “HIT esc FOR .altboot”. When esc is hit
everything is booted OK and the system works OK. What files must I edit to
skip the above sequence and get the system to boot correctly on it’s own?
According to the doc, I need to define a /etc/config/sysinit or a
altsysinit file, but this does not appear to work. Can anybody help,
please?
If you really want to get rid of the prompts, check out:
http://www.parse.com/~rk/articles/bootfast.html
But this won’t help you with the fact that you must hit Esc.
What happens when you don’t hit Esc? If the altboot file works,
just: “cp /.altboot /.boot” to at least make the primary boot
file the same as the secondary…
Cheers,
-RK
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I don’t know which section of the docs you’re looking at, but if you haven’t
done so already, take a look at the ‘Controlling How Neutrino Starts’
chapter of the Neutrino User’s Guide. (This is assuming you have Momentics
6.3; this book didn’t exist in 6.2.x)
“david chivers” <david@emulatorsinternational.com> wrote in message
news:cimlii$865$1@inn.qnx.com…
I am encountering problems booting my runtime system. We are attempting to
boot from a standard PC. During booting the message “BOOT PARTITION 1 ? 1”
is displayed followed by “HIT esc FOR .altboot”. When esc is hit
everything is booted OK and the system works OK. What files must I edit to
skip the above sequence and get the system to boot correctly on it’s own?
According to the doc, I need to define a /etc/config/sysinit or a
altsysinit file, but this does not appear to work. Can anybody help,
please?
Eric Johnson wrote:
I don’t know which section of the docs you’re looking at, but if you haven’t
done so already, take a look at the ‘Controlling How Neutrino Starts’
chapter of the Neutrino User’s Guide. (This is assuming you have Momentics
6.3; this book didn’t exist in 6.2.x)
“david chivers” <> david@emulatorsinternational.com> > wrote in message
news:cimlii$865$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
I am encountering problems booting my runtime system. We are attempting to
boot from a standard PC. During booting the message “BOOT PARTITION 1 ? 1”
is displayed followed by “HIT esc FOR .altboot”. When esc is hit
everything is booted OK and the system works OK. What files must I edit to
skip the above sequence and get the system to boot correctly on it’s own?
According to the doc, I need to define a /etc/config/sysinit or a
altsysinit file, but this does not appear to work. Can anybody help,
please?
Sorry for the delayed response, I have been on a field trip. I took your
advise and have read the indicated document. One problem remains, when I
execute the “cp” command to change /.boot or /.altboot, I receive the
reply unable to delete destination file resource busy. We tried to boot
from a CD, before attempting to change the disk settings but with the same
results. Any ideas!!!
david chivers <david@emulatorsinternational.com> wrote:
Eric Johnson wrote:
Sorry for the delayed response, I have been on a field trip. I took your
advise and have read the indicated document. One problem remains, when I
execute the “cp” command to change /.boot or /.altboot, I receive the
reply unable to delete destination file resource busy.
Do you have “cp” aliased to “cp -f” or something similar? Because you
are unable to unlink (delete) the /.boot and /.altboot files, and cp
doesn’t normally try to delete them, but if you give it the -f option
(force unlink), it will try to delete the target resulting in the
above error.
If you’re not sure, you can verify by trying:
/bin/cp file /.altboot
-David
David Gibbs
QNX Training Services
dagibbs@qnx.com