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Jesse Brockmann
09/24/2010 4:26 PM
post68572
install issue   
Hello,

  Apologize if this is the wrong place, but I'm having a problem installing QNX 6.5 SDP.  I'm trying to install self 
hosted Neutrino install.  I boot off the CDROM, and it goes through the install process, then it gets to Mounting 
filesystems...  and I get a message 
Unable to access /dev/hd0t179
Partition installation aborted!
Please remove the installation media, then reboot your machine

I tried deleting all partitions on the drive...   I did a verbose install and it seems to hang on the following line

/proc/boot/mkqnx6fs -q -TDesktop /dev/hd0t179

Drive is a SATA drive, I tried AHCI and then IDE mode and neither worked.   I tried to disable DMA and that also did not
 help.    I am able to do a live boot, and the machine seems to run ok, but I have not yet tried to create/format a 
partition on my drive yet.   Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jesse Brockmann
Keith Russell(deleted)
09/27/2010 11:27 AM
post68648
Re: install issue   
Hi Jesse,

For future reference, this kind of question is usually best asked in the "QNX Momentics Community Support" forum.

I haven't actually seen this issue before so I'll need to get some information fro you.

What hardware are you installing on? The IDE chipset would be useful to know.
After the failure could you run from the CD-ROM? I'd like to see the partition table 
which you can get with 'fdisk /dev/hd0 show'?
When you said you deleted all of the partitions how did you do this? 

Thanks,
Keith Russell
Jesse Brockmann
09/27/2010 7:17 PM
post68714
Re: install issue   
Keith,

  The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R which uses a Intel X58 and ICH10R chipset.

Fdisk shows the partition exactly like I would expect... I created a 10 GB partition and it looks fine.  

Interestingly, it seems running from a live boot also fails when I try to run
mkqnx6fs /dev/hd0t179.     It just hangs, the system becomes completely unresponsive. 

So, it seems to be able to create partitions but unable to format them.   

I deleted the partitions by just rerunning the installer, and deleting all existing partitions on machine using the 
installer.   But, in live mode I can also delete the partitions.

Regards,
Jesse



> Hi Jesse,
> 
> For future reference, this kind of question is usually best asked in the "QNX 
> Momentics Community Support" forum.
> 
> I haven't actually seen this issue before so I'll need to get some information
>  fro you.
> 
> What hardware are you installing on? The IDE chipset would be useful to know.
> After the failure could you run from the CD-ROM? I'd like to see the partition
>  table 
> which you can get with 'fdisk /dev/hd0 show'?
> When you said you deleted all of the partitions how did you do this? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith Russell
Keith Russell(deleted)
09/28/2010 12:57 PM
post68828
Re: install issue   
Hi Jesse,

Well, at least you can run in live mode. I will need some more information
to track this down.

When you have your system set up running from CD execute this command in a
terminal:

get-hw-info

This will store information about your system in

/tmp/hw-info-<hn>.txt

where <hn> is replaced with the hostname of your machine.

You will need to copy this file to another machine (e.g. via USB key or
network) so you can get it to me. The file is lengthy so it's easiest to
email it to me directly: keith@qnx.com. I'll post my response here, though.

Can you also include the output of 'fdisk /dev/hd0 show' both with and
without the partition?

You can try zeroing out the partition table with 'fdisk -z /dev/hd0'. There
may be some residual data left over from a previous partitioning.

Thanks,
Keith



On 10-09-27 19:17 , "Jesse Brockmann" <community-noreply@qnx.com> wrote:

> Keith,
> 
>   The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R which uses a Intel X58 and ICH10R
> chipset.
> 
> Fdisk shows the partition exactly like I would expect... I created a 10 GB
> partition and it looks fine.
> 
> Interestingly, it seems running from a live boot also fails when I try to run
> mkqnx6fs /dev/hd0t179.     It just hangs, the system becomes completely
> unresponsive.
> 
> So, it seems to be able to create partitions but unable to format them.
> 
> I deleted the partitions by just rerunning the installer, and deleting all
> existing partitions on machine using the installer.   But, in live mode I can
> also delete the partitions.
> 
> Regards,
> Jesse
> 
> 
> 
>> Hi Jesse,
>> 
>> For future reference, this kind of question is usually best asked in the "QNX
>> Momentics Community Support" forum.
>> 
>> I haven't actually seen this issue before so I'll need to get some
>> information
>>  fro you.
>> 
>> What hardware are you installing on? The IDE chipset would be useful to know.
>> After the failure could you run from the CD-ROM? I'd like to see the
>> partition
>>  table
>> which you can get with 'fdisk /dev/hd0 show'?
>> When you said you deleted all of the partitions how did you do this?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Keith Russell
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Jesse Brockmann
09/30/2010 3:48 PM
post69214
Re: install issue   
It seems fdisk -z /dev/hd0 was the key.   I was able to install normally after doing this.
I'm not sure why I was having problems in the first place.

Thanks for you help,
Jesse


> Hi Jesse,
> 
> Well, at least you can run in live mode. I will need some more information
> to track this down.
> 
> When you have your system set up running from CD execute this command in a
> terminal:
> 
> get-hw-info
> 
> This will store information about your system in
> 
> /tmp/hw-info-<hn>.txt
> 
> where <hn> is replaced with the hostname of your machine.
> 
> You will need to copy this file to another machine (e.g. via USB key or
> network) so you can get it to me. The file is lengthy so it's easiest to
> email it to me directly: keith@qnx.com. I'll post my response here, though.
> 
> Can you also include the output of 'fdisk /dev/hd0 show' both with and
> without the partition?
> 
> You can try zeroing out the partition table with 'fdisk -z /dev/hd0'. There
> may be some residual data left over from a previous partitioning.
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith
> 
>

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