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Forum Topic - Can't install selfhosted QNX 6.4.1 on PC: (3 Items)
   
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Nikolsky Oleg(deleted)
11/27/2009 9:38 AM
post42735
Can't install selfhosted QNX 6.4.1 on PC   
I am trying to install QNX 6.4.1 on PC with motherboard GIGABYTE GA-M61PME-S2 
(http://europe.giga-byte.com/FileList/Manual/motherboard_manual_ga-m61pme-s2_rev.2.0_e.pdf).

PC is equipped with SATA hard disk. Fedora 12 Lynux installed in first 30 Gb of disk, next 5 GB free space for QNX 
partition.

1) After I select "Install to hard drive" option installer writes on screen:
...
Trying SATA ahci. Scanning for devices...
xpt_configure: ahci SIM attach failure

Trying EIDE. Scanning for devices...
... found 2 devices

Detected USB. Scanning for devices...
...found 4 devices

Trying SATA mvSATA. Scanning for devices...
xpt_configure: No mvSATA devices found.

Started installation is interrupted with message on screen: 
"unable to access /dev/hd0t179 
Mounting filesystems...
Partition installation aborted!
Please remove the installation media, then reboot your machine"

It is interesting that QNX file system is created on hard drive when I look at disk partitions using disk partition tool
 after reboot.

2) If I select "boot from CD" option, QNX starts normal, but no hard drive is mounted under /fs directory, only cd0. 
Also "hd0 488,395,055" is located in /dev directory. Utility hw_info_script output file attached.  

My first question: How can I install QNX on this PC or it is impossible?

My additional question: Is there any AMD x86 processor that QNX Neutrino consider to be multycore? My "AMD AthlonTM 64 
X2 4400+ dual-Core processor" QNX descryies as single core processor when boot from CD, though there is procnto-smp 
kernel image in /boot/sys/ directory.
Attachment: Text hw-info-localhost.txt 63.68 KB
Dave Nickerson
11/27/2009 3:28 PM
post42789
Re: Can't install selfhosted QNX 6.4.1 on PC   
This sounds similiar to the issue described in a previous post.  Have a look at the values in your partition table and 
refer to post: http://community.qnx.com/sf/discussion/do/listPosts/projects.community/discussion.
qnx_momentics_getting_started.topc8694

Let us know if this is the same issue you are having.

- Dave
Nikolsky Oleg(deleted)
11/28/2009 5:14 AM
post42797
Re: Can't install selfhosted QNX 6.4.1 on PC   
Hello, Dave.

Apparently you are right about the reason of my problem. I can't use QNX fdisk because CD-booted QNX doesn't see hard 
disk at all. So I used several disk partition tools from Hiren's boot CD.  Beneath displayed disk partition layout from 
"Paragon 
Partition Manager Server Edition ver 7.00.000.1274":

Part#	Type	File System	Size
======================================
0             Primary	Ext3FS		200 Mb

1             Primary     Invalid		27,7 Gb
	Advanced Partition Information:
		File system: Invalid 
		Partition ID (hex): 0x8e	(*Linux LVM)
		Sectors/Boot: 0
		First Sector: 409663 (C:27, H:22, S:38)
		Last Sector: 58468414 (C:3866, H:230, S:5)

2              Primary      Invalid		 5.0 Gb
	Advanced Partition Information:
		Partition ID (hex): 0xA3	(*0xB3) 	"QNX file system"
		Sectors/Boot: 0
		First Sector: 58453920 (C:3866, H:0, S:1)
		Last Sector: 68947199  (C:4559, H:239, S:63)
 
3              Primary       NTFS		 200 Gb
	Advanced Partition Information:
		Partition ID (hex): 0x07	
		Sectors/Boot: 8
		First Sector: 68947200 (C:4560, H:0, S:1)
		Last Sector: 488391119  (C:32300, H:239, S:63) 

Marked with * is "Acronis Disk Editor" output.
Other partiton tools (Partition Magic, The Partition Resizer, ...) straightforwardly report about partition overlapping 
and refuse to work. 

I solved my problem in simplest way - cleaned all partitons and installed QNX at the beginning of the disk.

P.S. QNX 6.4.1 installer is not the only one that refuses install OS in specified disk location. I for some time 
unsuccessfully tried install Fedora 11 Lynux along with other OSes, but Fedora 11 could be installed only on all disk, 
not on part of it. This problem was fixed in Fedora 12.

Thank You for assistance.
Oleg Nikolsky.

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