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.
thanks
charles
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