Can't locate PNP bios

After successfully installing into modern PC,
I’ve tried to install RTP into an DECpc XL590
(Pentium90, i82433+82434 bridge, 53c810 SCSI onboard)

during floppy boot, pci-bios chokes on
Starting pci-bios
Can’t locate PNP bios (No error)
Hardware mechanism 2 not supported pci_server No dll loaded!

I guess this machine is lacking something pci-bios needs which I
can’t do anything about, but could someone tell me what’s going on?

kabe

<kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp> wrote in message news:9oner0$5pv$1@inn.qnx.com

After successfully installing into modern PC,
I’ve tried to install RTP into an DECpc XL590
(Pentium90, i82433+82434 bridge, 53c810 SCSI onboard)

during floppy boot, pci-bios chokes on
Starting pci-bios
Can’t locate PNP bios (No error)
Hardware mechanism 2 not supported pci_server No dll loaded!

I guess this machine is lacking something pci-bios needs which I
can’t do anything about, but could someone tell me what’s going on?

The program pci_server is looking for a PCI-BIOS. It seems that machine
doesn’t have a PCI bios does it has PCI slot?


kabe

The program pci_server is looking for a PCI-BIOS. It seems that machine
doesn’t have a PCI bios does it has PCI slot?

The machine was shipped during 486->Pentium transition era.
It does have a PCI slot but maybe it doesn’t have modern PCI BIOS.
(BIOS Setup needs to set IRQ number explicit per slot.)
I’ve tried out with the new pci-bios in developers.qnx.com but same banana;
guess this machine is too old for RTP.

But if any pci-bios option gets around this it’s worth writing
custom ifs build file.

kabe

Hi Kabe,

Let me ask the pci-bios guy here and ask him if he has any suggestions.

E.


kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp wrote:

The program pci_server is looking for a PCI-BIOS. It seems that machine
doesn’t have a PCI bios does it has PCI slot?

The machine was shipped during 486->Pentium transition era.
It does have a PCI slot but maybe it doesn’t have modern PCI BIOS.
(BIOS Setup needs to set IRQ number explicit per slot.)
I’ve tried out with the new pci-bios in developers.qnx.com but same banana;
guess this machine is too old for RTP.

But if any pci-bios option gets around this it’s worth writing
custom ifs build file.

kabe

Hi Kabe,

The pci-bios guy said that this is an older bios in your machine that
doesn’t support hardware configuration mechanism 2. We require this for
the pci server to run.

So if you can get a gfx card that doesn’t reside on the pci bus, and
your other devices, and you should be ok with a custom boot image.

Hope this helps.

Erick.



Hardware Support Account <hw@qnx.com> wrote:

Hi Kabe,

Let me ask the pci-bios guy here and ask him if he has any suggestions.

E.



kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp > wrote:
The program pci_server is looking for a PCI-BIOS. It seems that machine
doesn’t have a PCI bios does it has PCI slot?

The machine was shipped during 486->Pentium transition era.
It does have a PCI slot but maybe it doesn’t have modern PCI BIOS.
(BIOS Setup needs to set IRQ number explicit per slot.)
I’ve tried out with the new pci-bios in developers.qnx.com but same banana;
guess this machine is too old for RTP.

But if any pci-bios option gets around this it’s worth writing
custom ifs build file.

kabe