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Paul Norrod
04/16/2008 12:03 PM
post6920
Booting an X86 Target   
Hello all,

I am very new to QNX and I am simply trying to get an old dos machine to boot QNX and run something as simple as a hello
 world program to get started evaluating QNX. I would think this should be super simple but every doc I read is missing 
info or trys to describe every possible iteration of this problem.

I have the x86 BIOS board support package compiled into the following

bsp-ide.ifs
bsp-nfs-ne2000.ifs
bsp-qnx4ide.ifs
bsp-x86bios.ifs

At this point I simply want to take the image (my guess is bsp-ide.ifs) file and make a bootable compact flash that will
 boot the image. I can't seem to find any info on how to make a bootable disk from this image file. 

Then once I have a way of creating the bootable compact flash I want to take my very simple program and have it run in 
the startup script.

Can anyone help with some basic instructions on how to do this?
Paul Norrod
04/16/2008 1:15 PM
post6923
Re: Booting an X86 Target   
Just as a note I am using windows as my development platform and the compact flash on the target appears as an IDE drive
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Jeevan Mathew(deleted)
04/17/2008 3:26 AM
post6947
Re: Booting an X86 Target   
> Hello all,
> 
> I am very new to QNX and I am simply trying to get an old dos machine to boot 
> QNX and run something as simple as a hello world program to get started 
> evaluating QNX. I would think this should be super simple but every doc I read
>  is missing info or trys to describe every possible iteration of this problem.
> 

How 'old' is that box ?
What is it ?: Perhaps Intel [3 4 ] 86 ?

Jeevan

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