hart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) (07/30/90)
Hi All! Okay, here's the story; True Blue IBM AT, 30 meg drive, 512K, 2x serial/parallel cards, 1.2M 5-1/4 floppy, ega card running in hga mode to drive an IBM green monitor. Problem: Qnx boots fine after turning on the power. However it refuses to warm boot - i.e. after a CTL-ALT-SHIFT-DEL. I get the screen bloom and clear, the floppy goes chunka-chunka, ont the screen I get "QNX Loader Booting Partition 1" then the twirling arrow. It pauses for a second, the drive light flashes again, then nothing. After about 5 seconds, the memory counter comes on the screen like during the POST mem check - steps through mem in 64K increments slowly to 512K, then again much quicker. Then, the Qnx loader message again, and another memory count. This goes on forever. However, if I cycle power to the machine it boots fine. I've tried these various permutations: . booting with the os.2.15Epcat fileA . booting with the os.2.15atp file (norm, ` for prot. mode) . tried using the /drivers/disk.atc (caching ctlr) . tried with /drivers/disk.at (normal non-caching) . I've formated the QNX partition (the whole drive is 1 qnx partition) . I've checked that partition 1 has the boot asterisk next to it in fdisk. I've done the installation both manually and automatically, same results. If you have any ideas, please email me. <please don't tell me to try the QUICS; I like to save the costly solutions (phone call to canada) for last:-) > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael G. Hart hart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil / mhart@dtrc.dt.navy.mil DTRC/DoD | "Wherever you go, there you are."- me DISCLAIMER: If you want the Navy's opinion, talk to Secretary Cheney.