Hi Folks
Has anybody experience in using different boot partitions on their laptop.
I would like to establish a small runtime QNX partition, a larger QNX
Neutrino Development partition and the remaining disk to be partitioned to
Windows XP. Is this possible and what do I have to look out for?
Best wishes
David
david chivers <david@emulatorsinternational.com> wrote:
Hi Folks
Has anybody experience in using different boot partitions on their laptop.
I would like to establish a small runtime QNX partition, a larger QNX
Neutrino Development partition and the remaining disk to be partitioned to
Windows XP. Is this possible and what do I have to look out for?
Should be possible. I currently have my laptop partition for a large
XP partition, a moderate Neutrino dev partition, and 3 partitions for
Linux (boot, main, swap).
Things to watch out for – installers that steal some/all the
partition space, or wipe out other OSes.
You’ll also want to be careful about the primary loader – the QNX
one allows you to select a partition at boot time, the windows one
does not, and windows installations have a tendency to wipe out the
existing primary loader.
If you can install XP using a Fat32 filesystem (rather than NTFS,
which is I think the default), you can access the Windows filesystem
from under Neutrino.
David Gibbs
QNX Training Services
dagibbs@qnx.com
David Gibbs wrote:
You’ll also want to be careful about the primary loader – the QNX
one allows you to select a partition at boot time, the windows one
does not, and windows installations have a tendency to wipe out the
existing primary loader.
Most “alternative” OS install FAQs suggest this order:
I remember having to reinstall the boot loader whenever I installed
Windows on a system running (mostly) other operating systems, which
shall remain nameless. 
If you can install XP using a Fat32 filesystem (rather than NTFS,
which is I think the default), you can access the Windows filesystem
from under Neutrino.
For some horrible and unknown reasons, FAT32 is still the default…
–
Chris Herborth (cherborth@qnx.com)
Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.
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david chivers <> david@emulatorsinternational.com> > wrote:
Hi Folks
Has anybody experience in using different boot partitions on their
laptop.
I would like to establish a small runtime QNX partition, a larger QNX
Neutrino Development partition and the remaining disk to be partitioned
to
Windows XP. Is this possible and what do I have to look out for?Should be possible. I currently have my laptop partition for a large
XP partition, a moderate Neutrino dev partition, and 3 partitions for
Linux (boot, main, swap).
I though only 4 partions was possible
Mario Charest wrote:
Should be possible. I currently have my laptop partition for a large
XP partition, a moderate Neutrino dev partition, and 3 partitions for
Linux (boot, main, swap).I though only 4 partions was possible
Four primary and/or extended, and each extended can have up to four
logical partitions inside. It’s a ridiculous limitation and a nasty
hack.
–
Chris Herborth (cherborth@qnx.com)
Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.
In article <ck46jo$sd$2@inn.qnx.com>, cherborth@qnx.com says…
Mario Charest wrote:
Should be possible. I currently have my laptop partition for a large
XP partition, a moderate Neutrino dev partition, and 3 partitions for
Linux (boot, main, swap).I though only 4 partions was possible
Four primary and/or extended, and each extended can have up to four
logical partitions inside. It’s a ridiculous limitation and a nasty
hack. >
And what is ever horrible the QNX fdisk can’t create extended partition
and logical drive inside of it, AFAIR. Or am I lost behind the time and
QNX 6.3 can do that? 
I think the XP use the same technique for booting as NT/2K, so
information at link provided below might be useful, if you wanna use
windows loader with human readable menu. Frankly speaking I saw few
times that fancy green desktop of XP more than month ago, so I’m quite
proficient in the XP internals now 
)
http://ed1k.qnxclub.net/nt_qnx.html
Eduard.
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Let it be that way, who may want more than four partitions and RAM more
than 640K? (c)
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:16:10 -0400, ed1k <ed1k@fake.address> wrote:
I think the XP use the same technique for booting as NT/2K, so
information at link provided below might be useful
http://ed1k.qnxclub.net/nt_qnx.html
I can comfirm it works with XP.
Tony.