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James Langan

03/23/2012 1:05 PM

post92264

Hello Everyone, I'm receiving on unusual message on when I run fdisk on a scsi hard drive, the boot column of the 
partition table has "warning" in it when boot is not enables, when I select to turn on the boot partition option the "*"
 appears with text "maybe",  I would appreciate knowing what this exactly means,

I'm able to format the drive, initialize the file system and use the device, I've not been able to boot from a created 
device,

My overall goal is to clone another in-system booting/working hard drive as an exact spare replica for emergencies,  any
 help is appreciarted... jim

Pavel Kozlov(deleted)

Re: fdisk

Pavel Kozlov(deleted)

03/28/2012 8:15 AM

post92318

Re: fdisk

Hi James,

It seems that you use old version of fdisk. Old fdisk prints message "MAYBE"  if end of partition exceeds 8Gb boundary.

You have to update fdisk and perhaps dinit.
You can try fdisk from the SoftwareUpdates page:
http://community.qnx.com/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.qnx4/wiki/SoftwareUpdates

or update your system from QNX4 Product suite CD 2011 (it contains fdisk, dinit, driver updates, etc):
http://support.qnx.com/download/group.html?programid=7993

Regards,
Pavel

James Langan

03/28/2012 8:38 AM

post92320

RE: fdisk

Pavel,

Is the drive still fully functional?  In this case the partition's end is two (2) GB... However, I get the idea...

Thanks for the help...

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Pavel Kozlov [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 7:16 AM
To: qnx4-community
Subject: Re: fdisk

Hi James,

It seems that you use old version of fdisk. Old fdisk prints message "MAYBE"  if end of partition exceeds 8Gb boundary.

You have to update fdisk and perhaps dinit.
You can try fdisk from the SoftwareUpdates page:
http://community.qnx.com/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.qnx4/wiki/SoftwareUpdates

or update your system from QNX4 Product suite CD 2011 (it contains fdisk, dinit, driver updates, etc):
http://support.qnx.com/download/group.html?programid=7993

Regards,
Pavel



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Pavel Kozlov(deleted)

03/28/2012 10:04 AM

post92321

Re: fdisk

Perhaps your disk has unusual geometry.
Can you provide fdisk output?

# fdisk /dev/hd0 show > fdisk_output

Regards,
Pavel

> Pavel,
>
> Is the drive still fully functional?  In this case the partition's end is two (2) GB... However, I get the idea...
>
> Thanks for the help...
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Kozlov [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 7:16 AM
> To: qnx4-community
> Subject: Re: fdisk
>
> Hi James,
>
> It seems that you use old version of fdisk. Old fdisk prints message "MAYBE"  if end of partition exceeds 8Gb boundary
.
>
> You have to update fdisk and perhaps dinit.
> You can try fdisk from the SoftwareUpdates page:
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.qnx4/wiki/SoftwareUpdates
>
> or update your system from QNX4 Product suite CD 2011 (it contains fdisk, dinit, driver updates, etc):
> http://support.qnx.com/download/group.html?programid=7993
>
> Regards,
> Pavel
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> QNX4 Community Support
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post92318
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> QNX4 Community Support
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post92320
>
>

James Langan

04/05/2012 9:58 AM

post92472

Re: fdisk

Pavel,

I'll be downloading the new fdisk and dinit programs to try.  I did get the "maybe" message on a 2gbyte partition in an 
attempt to prevent system confusion.  

I do have a scsi and ide drive in the same computer and I am now thinking that perhaps fdisk is confused as to which is 
going to be the boot disk... ???  

JP Langan

Pavel Kozlov(deleted)

04/06/2012 4:22 AM

post92480

Re: fdisk

Hi James,

If you work with the old fdisk your partition should be in the first 8Gb
of the hard disk otherwise you will see warning message in the boot
column of the partition table.

The new fdisk is free from 8Gb limit.


Regards,
Pavel


> Pavel,
>
> I'll be downloading the new fdisk and dinit programs to try.  I did get the "maybe" message on a 2gbyte partition in 
an attempt to prevent system confusion.  
>
> I do have a scsi and ide drive in the same computer and I am now thinking that perhaps fdisk is confused as to which 
is going to be the boot disk... ???  
>
> JP Langan
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> QNX4 Community Support
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post92472
>
>

James Langan

04/06/2012 2:28 PM

post92484

RE: fdisk

Pavel,

I noticed an old thread where you participated in the successful creation of boot floppy disks and boot CD's.  Would you
 be willing to email me key aspects of those processes?

-----Original Message-----
From: Pavel Kozlov [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 3:23 AM
To: qnx4-community
Subject: Re: fdisk

Hi James,

If you work with the old fdisk your partition should be in the first 8Gb
of the hard disk otherwise you will see warning message in the boot
column of the partition table.

The new fdisk is free from 8Gb limit.

Regards,
Pavel

> Pavel,
>
> I'll be downloading the new fdisk and dinit programs to try.  I did get the "maybe" message on a 2gbyte partition in 
an attempt to prevent system confusion.  
>
> I do have a scsi and ide drive in the same computer and I am now thinking that perhaps fdisk is confused as to which 
is going to be the boot disk... ???  
>
> JP Langan
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> QNX4 Community Support
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post92472
>
>

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Pavel Kozlov(deleted)

04/09/2012 8:16 AM

post92496

Re: fdisk

Hi James,

In general this process described here:

http://community.qnx.com/sf/discussion/do/listPosts/projects.community/discussion.qnx4_community_support.topc2792?
_pagenum=3

Also, link for mkiso utility src for QNX4.
ftp://ftp.qnx.com/usr/free/qnx4/gnu/mkisofs-1.11.1.tgz

Regards,
Pavel


> Pavel,
>
> I noticed an old thread where you participated in the successful creation of boot floppy disks and boot CD's.  Would 
you be willing to email me key aspects of those processes?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Kozlov [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 3:23 AM
> To: qnx4-community
> Subject: Re: fdisk
>
> Hi James,
>
> If you work with the old fdisk your partition should be in the first 8Gb
> of the hard disk otherwise you will see warning message in the boot
> column of the partition table.
>
> The new fdisk is free from 8Gb limit.
>
>
> Regards,
> Pavel
>
>
>> Pavel,
>>
>> I'll be downloading the new fdisk and dinit programs to try.  I did get the "maybe" message on a 2gbyte partition in 
an attempt to prevent system confusion.  
>>
>> I do have a scsi and ide drive in the same computer and I am now thinking that perhaps fdisk is confused as to which 
is going to be the boot disk... ???  
>>
>> JP Langan
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> QNX4 Community Support
>> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post92472
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> QNX4 Community Support
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post92480
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> QNX4 Community Support
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post92484
>
>

Vinnik Konstantin(deleted)

Re: fdisk

Vinnik Konstantin(deleted)

04/10/2012 3:18 PM

post92517

Re: fdisk

> Hello Everyone, I'm receiving on unusual message on when I run fdisk on a scsi
>  hard drive, the boot column of the partition table has "warning" in it when 
> boot is not enables, when I select to turn on the boot partition option the "*
> " appears with text "maybe",  I would appreciate knowing what this exactly 
> means,
> 
> I'm able to format the drive, initialize the file system and use the device, 
> I've not been able to boot from a created device,
> 
> My overall goal is to clone another in-system booting/working hard drive as an
>  exact spare replica for emergencies,  any help is appreciarted... jim


Hi James!
Some problems with some BIOSs and some disks makes disks unusable after partition format. Main reason - wrong operation 
mode used by Fsys.sata (or other) heads/sectors. To fix disk partition table you should init disk partition table 
according BIOS settings. This may be done only after loading Fsys.driver with correct fsys option "heads/sectors". After
 that, you can use fdisk to zero old partition table and to make new.

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