/dev/pci did not mount

Hello
Has anyone found a work-around for QNX 6.1’s install
reporting ‘/dev/pci did not mount’ just after the .altboot option?

I have tried many differing boot options via spacebar, to no
avail. I have an ABIT KT7 motherboard, with only DXR3
and SBLive! taking up PCI slots. One ATA100 Harddrive
as Primary Master, and an ATA33 as primary slave – two
CD drives on Secondary IDE channels.

Any new ideas?

thanks & best of regards,
Ryan Mikulovsky

After you have booted your machine, please run ‘pci-bios -vvv’ and
post the output from ‘sloginfo’.

Previously, Ryan M. wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:

Hello
Has anyone found a work-around for QNX 6.1’s install
reporting ‘/dev/pci did not mount’ just after the .altboot option?

I have tried many differing boot options via spacebar, to no
avail. I have an ABIT KT7 motherboard, with only DXR3
and SBLive! taking up PCI slots. One ATA100 Harddrive
as Primary Master, and an ATA33 as primary slave – two
CD drives on Secondary IDE channels.

Any new ideas?

thanks & best of regards,
Ryan Mikulovsky




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Hi Ryan,

Also if you system is able to boot, could you try the updated pci-bios
from developers.qnx.com

Thanks

Erick.


Hugh Brown <hsbrown@qnx.com> wrote:

After you have booted your machine, please run ‘pci-bios -vvv’ and
post the output from ‘sloginfo’.

Previously, Ryan M. wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:
Hello
Has anyone found a work-around for QNX 6.1’s install
reporting ‘/dev/pci did not mount’ just after the .altboot option?

I have tried many differing boot options via spacebar, to no
avail. I have an ABIT KT7 motherboard, with only DXR3
and SBLive! taking up PCI slots. One ATA100 Harddrive
as Primary Master, and an ATA33 as primary slave – two
CD drives on Secondary IDE channels.

Any new ideas?

thanks & best of regards,
Ryan Mikulovsky




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Hello
thanks for your reply –
QNX 6.1 install locks-up after it reports ‘/dev/pci did not mount’ –
and there are no prompts before that to issue the pci-bios command.
Am I missing anything :slight_smile: I’m booting straight from the QNX 6.1
disc. I have tried installing on a FAT partition via Windows, but
the same problem occurs using the boot-disk it creates to access QNX.

thanks and best of regards,
Ryan



“Hugh Brown” <hsbrown@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:Voyager.020102090900.189B@node90.ott.qnx.com

After you have booted your machine, please run ‘pci-bios -vvv’ and
post the output from ‘sloginfo’.

Previously, Ryan M. wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:

Hello
thanks for your reply –
QNX 6.1 install locks-up after it reports ‘/dev/pci did not mount’ –
and there are no prompts before that to issue the pci-bios command.
Am I missing anything > :slight_smile: > I’m booting straight from the QNX 6.1
disc. I have tried installing on a FAT partition via Windows, but
the same problem occurs using the boot-disk it creates to access QNX.

When the prompt “Press spacebar…” appears at boot time, press the
spacebar, then F11, then F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, then enter twice. Does the
machine boot and come up with a prompt?

thanks and best of regards,
Ryan



“Hugh Brown” <> hsbrown@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:> Voyager.020102090900.189B@node90.ott.qnx.com> …
After you have booted your machine, please run ‘pci-bios -vvv’ and
post the output from ‘sloginfo’.
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Hello,
thanks again for your reply. I turned off all the enumerators,
and then continued boot in verbose mode. The same
error occurs, ‘pci server could not start’ and ‘/dev/pci did not mount’
– no prompt.

I also tweaked my BIOS, to no avail.

I’m guessing that I’m stuck :slight_smile:

Thanks again and best of regards,
Ryan

“Hugh Brown” <hsbrown@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:Voyager.020104083436.27339A@node90.ott.qnx.com

Previously, Ryan M. wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:
Hello
thanks for your reply –
QNX 6.1 install locks-up after it reports ‘/dev/pci did not mount’ –
and there are no prompts before that to issue the pci-bios command.
Am I missing anything > :slight_smile: > I’m booting straight from the QNX 6.1
disc. I have tried installing on a FAT partition via Windows, but
the same problem occurs using the boot-disk it creates to access QNX.


When the prompt “Press spacebar…” appears at boot time, press the
spacebar, then F11, then F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, then enter twice. Does the
machine boot and come up with a prompt?

What is the make and model of your PC?

As well as disabling the enumerators, you can also press F6 (verbose)
3 times to get more output on the screen. Maybe you can get some more
information as to why the pci server is exiting.

Previously, Ryan M. wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:

Hello,
thanks again for your reply. I turned off all the enumerators,
and then continued boot in verbose mode. The same
error occurs, ‘pci server could not start’ and ‘/dev/pci did not mount’
– no prompt.

I also tweaked my BIOS, to no avail.

I’m guessing that I’m stuck > :slight_smile:

Thanks again and best of regards,
Ryan

“Hugh Brown” <> hsbrown@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:> Voyager.020104083436.27339A@node90.ott.qnx.com> …
Previously, Ryan M. wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:
Hello
thanks for your reply –
QNX 6.1 install locks-up after it reports ‘/dev/pci did not mount’ –
and there are no prompts before that to issue the pci-bios command.
Am I missing anything > :slight_smile: > I’m booting straight from the QNX 6.1
disc. I have tried installing on a FAT partition via Windows, but
the same problem occurs using the boot-disk it creates to access QNX.


When the prompt “Press spacebar…” appears at boot time, press the
spacebar, then F11, then F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, then enter twice. Does the
machine boot and come up with a prompt?

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Hello again,

Pressing F6 3 times with the enumerators disabled yielded a
lot of information which made no comprehensible sense, but
it did indicate a fail:

  • MEM e8000000 80000 pref Range Check failed (ROM) -

This occured in the lower quarter output. At the very end of the
output would be where the Fail to mount /dev/pci occured.

That is all I could decern which would give any clues as to why
it isn’t mounting – but it is rather cryptic to say the least.

Thanks for your help once again,
best of regards,
Ryan M



“Hugh Brown” <hsbrown@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:Voyager.020107091909.15526B@node90.ott.qnx.com

What is the make and model of your PC?

As well as disabling the enumerators, you can also press F6 (verbose)
3 times to get more output on the screen. Maybe you can get some more
information as to why the pci server is exiting.

You still haven’t given me the make and model of your PC!

If you press the space bar at startup and then press F1, F4 and
enter twice, do you get a login prompt?

Previously, Ryan M. wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:

Hello again,

Pressing F6 3 times with the enumerators disabled yielded a
lot of information which made no comprehensible sense, but
it did indicate a fail:

  • MEM e8000000 80000 pref Range Check failed (ROM) -

This occured in the lower quarter output. At the very end of the
output would be where the Fail to mount /dev/pci occured.

That is all I could decern which would give any clues as to why
it isn’t mounting – but it is rather cryptic to say the least.

Thanks for your help once again,
best of regards,
Ryan M



“Hugh Brown” <> hsbrown@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:> Voyager.020107091909.15526B@node90.ott.qnx.com> …
What is the make and model of your PC?

As well as disabling the enumerators, you can also press F6 (verbose)
3 times to get more output on the screen. Maybe you can get some more
information as to why the pci server is exiting.
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Hello :wink:

I tried F1, F4, same result. My homebrewed system specs are as follows:

ABIT KT7A - VIA KT133 chipset, 512MB RAM, TBird CPU,
AGP Video Accleration (GeForce), PCI DVD Decoder card (DXR3),
PCI sound card (SB Live), 2xCDROMs (IDE2), 2xHarddisks (IDE1),
1xFDD.

thanks again for all your input, it is much appreciated,

Ryan M

“Hugh Brown” <hsbrown@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:Voyager.020108163100.1792A@node90.ott.qnx.com

You still haven’t given me the make and model of your PC!

If you press the space bar at startup and then press F1, F4 and
enter twice, do you get a login prompt?

OK, let’s try a process of elimination! Can you remove the DVD decoder
and sound cards from the system and see if it boots. If it does, then
you can replcae them one at a time and see when the system hangs. I would
suspect that maybe the DVD decoder card is causing problems.

If the system still hangs without the cards, you can try pressing the
space bar at boot time and select F5 and see if you get a debug shell.

Previously, Ryan M. wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:

Hello > :wink:

I tried F1, F4, same result. My homebrewed system specs are as follows:

ABIT KT7A - VIA KT133 chipset, 512MB RAM, TBird CPU,
AGP Video Accleration (GeForce), PCI DVD Decoder card (DXR3),
PCI sound card (SB Live), 2xCDROMs (IDE2), 2xHarddisks (IDE1),
1xFDD.

thanks again for all your input, it is much appreciated,

Ryan M

“Hugh Brown” <> hsbrown@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:> Voyager.020108163100.1792A@node90.ott.qnx.com> …
You still haven’t given me the make and model of your PC!

If you press the space bar at startup and then press F1, F4 and
enter twice, do you get a login prompt?

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I have exactly the same problem but a complete different hardware
distribution:

an intel Premiere/PCI ED (Batman’s Revenge), a Intel Pentium 66MHz, ISA
graphics adapter (Cirrus Logic), 1GB HDD, 2 Ethernet cards, 1 ISDN card
and a typhoon soundcard, all cards are ISA. A Teac 6x CDROM and 16MB EDO
RAM.
I’ve tried to eliminate the ISDN card and one of the Ethernet cards (and
tried only with the 3com eth-card).

Maybe the systewm doesn’t work with ISA-graphic adapters?

Error message with verbose mode:
Starting pci-bios -m
Hardware mechanism 2 not supported pci_server: No dll loaded! p
/dev/pci did not mount


c ya
thancxs macxs

I had the same problem too. But after I removed the DXR3 card, the
installation was successful.

Is this a known problem ? If yes is this problem going to be fixed?.
Providing user with the warning in installation notes would help much.

Thanks
Anil

“Ryan M.” wrote:

Hello > :wink:

I tried F1, F4, same result. My homebrewed system specs are as follows:

ABIT KT7A - VIA KT133 chipset, 512MB RAM, TBird CPU,
AGP Video Accleration (GeForce), PCI DVD Decoder card (DXR3),
PCI sound card (SB Live), 2xCDROMs (IDE2), 2xHarddisks (IDE1),
1xFDD.

thanks again for all your input, it is much appreciated,

Ryan M

“Hugh Brown” <> hsbrown@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:> Voyager.020108163100.1792A@node90.ott.qnx.com> …
You still haven’t given me the make and model of your PC!

If you press the space bar at startup and then press F1, F4 and
enter twice, do you get a login prompt?