Hi Charles
These companies are part of the Embedded Linux Consortium, I cannot say for
sure, but there may be somone on the mail lists there that could help you
or others out some.... www.embedded-linux.org
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On 15/01/01 at 8:50 Charles Galpin wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Anyone know qnx? I got an i-opener (v5) last week and am in the process of
>hacking it to run Linux (Red Hat of course, and so really on topic :).
>
>Anyway, it has a sandisk (16MB disk on chip) running qnx which I will
>eventually replace. They have some BIOS mods that are preventing me from
>booting off a hard drive, and also blanking the screen so I can't even get
>into the bios. I have a hacked BIOS on order, but would like to play!
>
>I think I might be able to get a root shell under qnx, and from that point
>modify it's boot loader to boot off the hard drive.
>
>So does anyone know how the qnx boot loader works?
>
>How about their filesystem? I have a friend who has an older i-opener
>which he has hacked, and he can mount the qnx partitions from linux and it
>has files ending in .fs. Still looks rather cryptic.
>
>yes, I wil be doing a lot of reading on the qnx website, but since this is
>only an intermediate step I don't want to make a career out of it.
>
>Anyway, for the curious, you can see this little marvel at
>www.netpliance.com. A 266 mhz pentium/32MB ram/16MB disk/10 inch lcd/56k
>modem/built in speakers & mic. The goal is to use it as a thin client, or
>possibly add a permanent hard drive (and fan, possibly boost RAM and CPU
>as well).
>
>At a minimum it'll cost you
>i-opener (no strings attached) $199
>usb NIC $40
>hacked BIOS $20
> ----
>total $260
>
>
>The modem is not a winmodem so I guess you could use the modem, but I want
>it on my LAN (in the kitchen). Upgrading the RAM, cpu and adding a Hard
>drive would bring this into the $500 range, but it's a cute toy as is.
>
Regards
Greg Wright
IT Consultant Sydney Australia
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