Hi All
I just start working with the QNX SO, and I’ve read some of the resources that download QNX website, but I have the following problem.
I need to create a Disk Boot for QNX 2.21, and I have the following two questions.
I have a PC with a SCADA, I have installed the version 4 in the PC,
I can create a disc for the version 2.21 in this version ?
or how can I create this disc boot?
Thanks
Regards
Alejandro Ruiz E.
Monterrey N.L. Mexico
I think you need to create a QNX2 boot disk from QNX2.
QNX2 boot disks also must be formatted with a special interleave (s=0 option to fdformat IIRC).
With all due respect Ken …
You will need a working QNX2 system to create a QNX2 boot disk. QNX 4 will only read a QNX 2 disk. It can be tricky to find the hardware to run QNX2, but you can run under VM on a modern PIV if it has a floppy. Of course if you have a working boot floppy you can just copy it.
The interleave is not needed. The default formating QNX2 floppies was to put an interleave in because the driver only would read on sector at a time, and this enhanced performance. That is except at boot time when the boot loader would read multiple sectors in one read. So having the interleave slowed things down on a boot diskette.
If you need a QNX 2 boot diskette and don’t have one, you can check with QNX. I think they might supply one to an existing customer.
You might be able to get some help from one of the remaining consultants who still knows about this stuff. Off the top of the list is Ken, Mario, and myself. Apologies to anyone I’ve left out.
I’ve never really dealt with QNX2, I’m not that old, lol!
Mario, well it seems like you’ve been around forever.