It gets worse.
Completely reinstalled QNX 6.21NC. Deleted all disk
partitions. Selected "quarter" of disk (20GB) for the
QNX partition.
QNX installed OK. Rebooted and finished installation.
(Remember the 6.21 double-install issue.) Everything looked
good. Did the final reboot as instructed.
On reboot, got
"Cannot load diskboot(

"
Tried it again. Same error.
Booted from CD, and ran "chkfsys /dev/hd0t79". No errors,
128 blocks recovered. Shut down and restarted.
"Cannot load diskboot(

"
Reinstalled entire system again. Same error.
This machine ran QNX just fine for two years, had a hard
drive failure, and now I'm trying to bring up the new hard
drive. It's not working.
Is there any possibility that there could be a corrupted
partition table, and that the QNX installer can neither detect
nor correct this?
John Nagle
John Nagle wrote:
I had a QNX 6.21NC machine taken in for a disk replacement.
Unfortunately, 40GB drives were no longer available, so the
repair shop copied the existing QNX partition to a new
partition. The old disk had a QNX partition, plus empty
space.
This resulted in a system that boots, but won't run
chkfsys.
The system will come all the way up, allow logins,
and shows valid files.
But if I try to run "chkfsys -f /dev/hd0t79" from
safe mode, it complains of invalid extents on the
root directory, errors in the bitmaps, and finally
reports a negative amount of space in use.
There's also a "/dev/hd0t11", reported as an "invalid
DOS file system".
Is there any way to straighten this out without
reloading everything?
John Nagle