Please help me!Why unable to locate devc-con?

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Hi,

I installed QNX6.1 on my ComPower laptop it worked well. Last week I made
new partition on my hard disk and installed windows 98 first, then QNX4.25,
then QNX6.1. QNX4.25 worked well too. But I always got “Unable to locate
devc-con” when I use QNX6.1.

I thought maybe there’s something conflict between my QNX4.25 and QNX6.1. So
I uninstalled 4.25 and reinstall 6.1. But still got:

Hit ESC for .altboot…
Press the space br to input boot options…
Detected EIDE. Scanning for devices.
Unable to locate devc-con.

Why? Any ideas?

Thanks.
Bridget

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Hi Bridget,

Have you look into Knowledge Base?
Does the http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10353 solve your problem? If not, please write
here about your hardware: EIDE controller type, partitions map of hard disk etc. Make sure you have
no slave device without master on any IDE channel.

Best regards,
Eduard.

Bridget <penglp@hotmail.com> wrote in article <a6196d$c2a$1@inn.qnx.com>…

Hi,

I installed QNX6.1 on my ComPower laptop it worked well. Last week I made
new partition on my hard disk and installed windows 98 first, then QNX4.25,
then QNX6.1. QNX4.25 worked well too. But I always got “Unable to locate
devc-con” when I use QNX6.1.

I thought maybe there’s something conflict between my QNX4.25 and QNX6.1. So
I uninstalled 4.25 and reinstall 6.1. But still got:

Hit ESC for .altboot…
Press the space br to input boot options…
Detected EIDE. Scanning for devices.
Unable to locate devc-con.

Why? Any ideas?

Thanks.
Bridget






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On 5 Mar 2002 11:30:17 GMT, “ed1k” <ed1k@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi Bridget,

Have you look into Knowledge Base?
Does the > http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10353 > solve your problem? If not, please write
here about your hardware: EIDE controller type, partitions map of hard disk etc. Make sure you have
no slave device without master on any IDE channel.

Best regards,
Eduard.

Bridget <> penglp@hotmail.com> > wrote in article <a6196d$c2a$> 1@inn.qnx.com> >…
Hi,

I installed QNX6.1 on my ComPower laptop it worked well. Last week I made
new partition on my hard disk and installed windows 98 first, then QNX4.25,
then QNX6.1. QNX4.25 worked well too. But I always got “Unable to locate
devc-con” when I use QNX6.1.

I thought maybe there’s something conflict between my QNX4.25 and QNX6.1. So
I uninstalled 4.25 and reinstall 6.1. But still got:

Hit ESC for .altboot…
Press the space br to input boot options…
Detected EIDE. Scanning for devices.
Unable to locate devc-con.

Why? Any ideas?

Having had a similar problem before, I can point out the subtlety here:
The BOK is about solving the STARTING devc-con problem.
This problem (and my customer’s) is LOCATING devc-con.

4

Hi Eduard,

I did look into Knowledge Base. But I still have this problem. My hardware
is:

Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
Crystal Sound Fusion™ CS4281 WDM Audio
Rage Mobility-M1 AGP (video)
64M memory

Partitions Map:

Partition Status Type Mbytes System
c: 1 PRI DOS 4001 FAT32
2 EXT DOS 3906
3 A Non-DOS 1679

If you need more information, please let me know.

BTW, I reinstalled QNX6.0 successfully. Then I tried QNX6.1 again, I still
got the same result.

Thanks,
Bridget



ed1k <ed1k@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:01c1c437$540bf640$106fa8c0@ED1K…

Hi Bridget,

Have you look into Knowledge Base?
Does the > http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10353 > solve your
problem? If not, please write
here about your hardware: EIDE controller type, partitions map of hard
disk etc. Make sure you have
no slave device without master on any IDE channel.

Best regards,
Eduard.

Bridget <> penglp@hotmail.com> > wrote in article
a6196d$c2a$> 1@inn.qnx.com> >…
Hi,

I installed QNX6.1 on my ComPower laptop it worked well. Last week I
made
new partition on my hard disk and installed windows 98 first, then
QNX4.25,
then QNX6.1. QNX4.25 worked well too. But I always got “Unable to locate
devc-con” when I use QNX6.1.

I thought maybe there’s something conflict between my QNX4.25 and
QNX6.1. So
I uninstalled 4.25 and reinstall 6.1. But still got:

Hit ESC for .altboot…
Press the space br to input boot options…
Detected EIDE. Scanning for devices.
Unable to locate devc-con.

Why? Any ideas?

Thanks.
Bridget






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Hi Alex,

What do you mean BOK? How to get it?

Thanks,
Bridget



Alex Cellarius <acellarius@systems104-don’t-you-spam-me!.co.za> wrote in
message news:1103_1015356584@pentiumii…

On 5 Mar 2002 11:30:17 GMT, “ed1k” <> ed1k@yahoo.com> > wrote:
Hi Bridget,

Have you look into Knowledge Base?
Does the > http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10353 > solve your
problem? If not, please write
here about your hardware: EIDE controller type, partitions map of hard
disk etc. Make sure you have
no slave device without master on any IDE channel.

Best regards,
Eduard.

Bridget <> penglp@hotmail.com> > wrote in article
a6196d$c2a$> 1@inn.qnx.com> >…
Hi,

I installed QNX6.1 on my ComPower laptop it worked well. Last week I
made
new partition on my hard disk and installed windows 98 first, then
QNX4.25,
then QNX6.1. QNX4.25 worked well too. But I always got “Unable to
locate
devc-con” when I use QNX6.1.

I thought maybe there’s something conflict between my QNX4.25 and
QNX6.1. So
I uninstalled 4.25 and reinstall 6.1. But still got:

Hit ESC for .altboot…
Press the space br to input boot options…
Detected EIDE. Scanning for devices.
Unable to locate devc-con.

Why? Any ideas?

Having had a similar problem before, I can point out the subtlety here:
The BOK is about solving the STARTING devc-con problem.
This problem (and my customer’s) is LOCATING devc-con.

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Hi Bridget,

Bridget <penglp@hotmail.com> wrote in article <a674hc$j2v$1@inn.qnx.com>…

Hi Eduard,

I did look into Knowledge Base. But I still have this problem. My hardware
is:

Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
Crystal Sound Fusion™ CS4281 WDM Audio
Rage Mobility-M1 AGP (video)
64M memory

Partitions Map:

Partition Status Type Mbytes System
c: 1 PRI DOS 4001 FAT32
2 EXT DOS 3906
3 A Non-DOS 1679

If you need more information, please let me know.

Your configuration seems to be ok :wink: I have the similar configuration, but have no this problem
:wink: Looks like '‘diskboot’ is unable to locate ‘devc-con’ during boot up. I’m not surprised if it’s
the yet another issue of diskboot. I don’t use diskboot in my system… but no way if you have a
computer and want to install QNXRTP from CD on it.

BTW, I reinstalled QNX6.0 successfully. Then I tried QNX6.1 again, I still
got the same result.

What do you mean? I have only QNX6.0 CD. In order to get QNX6.1 I’ve done the upgrade from QNX web
repository (the upgrade package is also in zip archiv for downloading), maybe there is problem in
your QNX6.1 image (CD)… Strangely enough because devc-con lives in qnxbase image, this file
stored in compressed form on CD (at least on QNX6.0 CD)… Read detailed info about diskboot and
it’s relations to devc-con in (maybe it gives you some idea):
Newsgroups: qdn.public.qnxrtp.x86
Subject: Testing out custom devc-con
Date: 12 Jan 2002 19:37:17 GMT
Xref: inn.qnx.com qdn.public.qnxrtp.x86:9

Eduard.

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I guess it’s Knowledge base :wink: Look at url (support/bok)

Bridget <penglp@hotmail.com> wrote in article <a67a53$n8o$1@inn.qnx.com>…

Hi Alex,

What do you mean BOK? How to get it?

Thanks,
Bridget

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Bridget, if you can boot to CD, and gain access to your filesystem /fs/hd*
I’d like to see your /etc/system/package/packages file. Not the one used
when you boot up from the CD, the one on your hard drive, somewhere in
/fs/hd*/etc/system/package/packages.

Thanks! I do have an idea of how to fix your problem.

Jerry Chappell
jchappell@qnx.com

“Bridget” <penglp@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:a674hc$j2v$1@inn.qnx.com…

Hi Eduard,

I did look into Knowledge Base. But I still have this problem. My hardware
is:

Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
Crystal Sound Fusion™ CS4281 WDM Audio
Rage Mobility-M1 AGP (video)
64M memory

Partitions Map:

Partition Status Type Mbytes System
c: 1 PRI DOS 4001 FAT32
2 EXT DOS 3906
3 A Non-DOS 1679

If you need more information, please let me know.

BTW, I reinstalled QNX6.0 successfully. Then I tried QNX6.1 again, I still
got the same result.

Thanks,
Bridget



ed1k <> ed1k@yahoo.com> > wrote in message
news:01c1c437$540bf640$106fa8c0@ED1K…
Hi Bridget,

Have you look into Knowledge Base?
Does the > http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10353 > solve your
problem? If not, please write
here about your hardware: EIDE controller type, partitions map of hard
disk etc. Make sure you have
no slave device without master on any IDE channel.

Best regards,
Eduard.

Bridget <> penglp@hotmail.com> > wrote in article
a6196d$c2a$> 1@inn.qnx.com> >…
Hi,

I installed QNX6.1 on my ComPower laptop it worked well. Last week I
made
new partition on my hard disk and installed windows 98 first, then
QNX4.25,
then QNX6.1. QNX4.25 worked well too. But I always got “Unable to
locate
devc-con” when I use QNX6.1.

I thought maybe there’s something conflict between my QNX4.25 and
QNX6.1. So
I uninstalled 4.25 and reinstall 6.1. But still got:

Hit ESC for .altboot…
Press the space br to input boot options…
Detected EIDE. Scanning for devices.
Unable to locate devc-con.

Why? Any ideas?

Thanks.
Bridget








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On 7 Mar 2002 09:42:32 GMT, “ed1k” <ed1k@yahoo.com> wrote:

I guess it’s Knowledge base > :wink: > Look at url (support/bok)

Bridget <> penglp@hotmail.com> > wrote in article <a67a53$n8o$> 1@inn.qnx.com> >…
Hi Alex,

What do you mean BOK? How to get it?

Thanks,
Bridget

Sorry, yes it the knowledgebase entry someone pointed at

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Hi Jerry,

The contents of the /etc/system/package/packages file is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

QPF:configuration

<QPF:mapping vfsroot="/" spillroot="/var/pkg/spill">

QPF:repositories
<QPF:item name=“User Repository”>/pkgs/repository</QPF:item>
<QPF:item name=“Core Repository” type=“Read-only”>/pkgs/base</QPF:item>
</QPF:repositories>

QPF:packages
QPF:itemqnx/bundles/os-6.1.0/x86</QPF:item>
QPF:itemqnx/os/core-2.1.2</QPF:item>
QPF:subitemqnx/os/core-2.1.2/x86</QPF:subitem>
QPF:itemqnx/os/doc-2.1.2</QPF:item>
QPF:itemqnx/os/drivers-2.1.2/x86</QPF:item>
QPF:subitemqnx/os/drivers-2.1.2/x86</QPF:subitem>
QPF:itemqnx/os/slib-2.1.1</QPF:item>
QPF:subitemqnx/os/slib-2.1.1/x86</QPF:subitem>
QPF:itemqnx/os/utils-2.1.2</QPF:item>
QPF:subitemqnx/os/utils-2.1.2/x86</QPF:subitem>
QPF:itemqnx/ph/core-2.0.2</QPF:item>
QPF:subitemqnx/ph/core-2.0.2/x86</QPF:subitem>
QPF:itemqnx/ph/drivers-2.0.2</QPF:item>
QPF:subitemqnx/ph/drivers-2.0.2/x86</QPF:subitem>
QPF:itemqnx/ph/pkg-inst-2.0.2</QPF:item>
QPF:subitemqnx/ph/pkg-inst-2.0.2/x86</QPF:subitem>
QPF:itemqnx/gplusplus/slib-2.10</QPF:item>
QPF:subitemqnx/gplusplus/slib-2.10/x86</QPF:subitem>
</QPF:packages>

</QPF:mapping>
</QPF:configuration>

Any ideas? Thanks!

Liping



Jerry Chappell <jchappell@cyberus.ca> wrote in message
news:a67pol$75p$1@nntp.qnx.com…

Bridget, if you can boot to CD, and gain access to your filesystem /fs/hd*
I’d like to see your /etc/system/package/packages file. Not the one used
when you boot up from the CD, the one on your hard drive, somewhere in
/fs/hd*/etc/system/package/packages.

Thanks! I do have an idea of how to fix your problem.

Jerry Chappell
jchappell@qnx.com

“Bridget” <> penglp@hotmail.com> > wrote in message
news:a674hc$j2v$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Hi Eduard,

I did look into Knowledge Base. But I still have this problem. My
hardware
is:

Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
Crystal Sound Fusion™ CS4281 WDM Audio
Rage Mobility-M1 AGP (video)
64M memory

Partitions Map:

Partition Status Type Mbytes System
c: 1 PRI DOS 4001 FAT32
2 EXT DOS 3906
3 A Non-DOS 1679

If you need more information, please let me know.

BTW, I reinstalled QNX6.0 successfully. Then I tried QNX6.1 again, I
still
got the same result.

Thanks,
Bridget



ed1k <> ed1k@yahoo.com> > wrote in message
news:01c1c437$540bf640$106fa8c0@ED1K…
Hi Bridget,

Have you look into Knowledge Base?
Does the > http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10353 > solve your
problem? If not, please write
here about your hardware: EIDE controller type, partitions map of hard
disk etc. Make sure you have
no slave device without master on any IDE channel.

Best regards,
Eduard.

Bridget <> penglp@hotmail.com> > wrote in article
a6196d$c2a$> 1@inn.qnx.com> >…
Hi,

I installed QNX6.1 on my ComPower laptop it worked well. Last week I
made
new partition on my hard disk and installed windows 98 first, then
QNX4.25,
then QNX6.1. QNX4.25 worked well too. But I always got “Unable to
locate
devc-con” when I use QNX6.1.

I thought maybe there’s something conflict between my QNX4.25 and
QNX6.1. So
I uninstalled 4.25 and reinstall 6.1. But still got:

Hit ESC for .altboot…
Press the space br to input boot options…
Detected EIDE. Scanning for devices.
Unable to locate devc-con.

Why? Any ideas?

Thanks.
Bridget










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