Booting from a USB CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive does not work in QNX Neutrino 6.4.0 and 6.4.1 when using a boot image based on the diskboot application. This is also the case for the QNX Neutrino self-hosted install CD. As well, if you are creating a Neutrino run-time CD that makes use of a diskboot based boot image, this will also not work.
There are several work-arounds for this issue.
1.) Plug a SATA or EIDE CD/DVD-Drive into your system and boot from this.
2.) If you are creating a run-time kit disk, you may wish to consider making a boot image that does not use the diskboot application.
3.) Use the QNX 6.5.0 instflop-rtkit.dat and qnxbase.qfs files for building the QNX 6.4 installation CD. The USB CD-ROM issue is fixed in the 6.5.0 instflop-rtkit.dat (diskboot) and the QNX 6.5.0 files will just be used for installation purposes.
Please consult our 'Building Embedded Systems' guide for information on building boot images. If you wish to learn more about diskboot, please see our Neutrino Utilities Reference.
NOTE:
This entry has been validated against the SDP version listed above. Use
caution when considering this advice for any other SDP version. For
supported releases, please reach out to QNX Technical Support if you have any questions/concerns.
