Hi everyone,

I'm having an weird problem in the boot process of QNX 6.3.0 SP3 on a AMD Geode LX800 board.
Every 10 out of 1000 (1%) of the boots fail.
It fails just after starting the OS image created with the build below.
The screen output looks like:

QNX 6.3.0 SP3

---> Starting PCI Services
Can't locate PNP bios (No errors)
---> Starting Console Manager
Unable to start "devc-con" (8)
Unable to access "/dev/con1" (2)
Unable to access "/dev/con1" (2)
---> Starting EIDE Driver
Unable to start "mount" (8)
---> Starting /etc/system/sysinit

and it hangs here. This happens in 1% of the boots.

Does anyone have an idea of what could cause this? We have experienced this behaviour in 2 boards.

Regards,

Leonel


Build file used to create the image:

[virtual=x86,bios +compress] boot = { 
	# Reserve 64k of video memory to handle multiple video cards 
	startup-bios 
	# PATH is the *safe* path for executables (confstr(_CS_PATH...)) 
	# LD_LIBRARY_PATH is the *safe* path for libraries (confstr(_CS_LIBPATH)) 
	# i.e. This is the path searched for libs in setuid/setgid executables. 
	PATH=/proc/boot:/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/sbin LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/proc/boot:/lib:/usr/lib:/lib/dll:/opt

/lib procnto
} 

[+script] startup-script = {
    display_msg "  "
    display_msg "QNX 6.3.0 SP3"
    display_msg "  "

    procmgr_symlink ../../proc/boot/libc.so.2 /usr/lib/ldqnx.so.2

    display_msg "---> Starting PCI Services"
    seedres
    pci-bios &
    waitfor /dev/pci

    display_msg "---> Starting Console Manager"
    devc-con -n2
    waitfor /dev/con1
    reopen /dev/con1
    
    display_msg "---> Starting EIDE Driver"
    devb-eide blk noatime auto=partition dos exe=all cam quiet

    # Mount one QNX 4 filesystem as /, and another as /home.
    # Also, mount a DOS partition and the CD drive.

    waitfor /dev/hd0
    mount /dev/hd0t79 /

#	display_msg "---> Starting Pipe, Slogger & Queue Services"
#	slogger
#	pipe
#	mqueue

    display_msg "---> Starting /etc/system/sysinit"
    ksh -c /etc/system/sysinit
}

libc.so
libcam.so
io-blk.so
cam-disk.so
fs-qnx4.so

[data=c]
seedres
pci-bios
devb-eide
ksh
devc-con
mount