Unable to load LabVIEW RT from drive

[manora]

Trying to boot RT on PXI-8187 controller with original setup, what ever RT boot selection is used either hardware switch or BIOS RT boot option, the terminal will show the following:
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Unable to load LabVIEW RT from drive!

Booting safe mode from ROM...

mount: Mounting /dev/Ma1 on /home/ftp/c failed: Invalid argument
Entering safe mode.
IP address is: 0.0.0.0
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Of course after that you can't do any thing to configure the RT target from the MAX on the host computer.

Please Help.

[KurtN]

This error message occurs when you try to boot LabVIEW RT on a hard drive that was originally configured to boot Windows or another operating system. Booting RT requires the first partition of your hard disk to be formatted as a FAT32 partition. More than likely, the first partition on your hard drive is formatted as an NTFS file system for Windows.

From MAX, right-click on your PXI RT system and select Format Disk. Note that this will erase the contents of your hard drive (including any operating system that was previously installed). You should then be able to configure your RT controller after following the directions in MAX.

If you wish to dual-boot your controller, you must re-install Windows (or other OS) on the new partition after the hard disk has been formatted.

Kurt

[Adam_U]

Windows does not currently allow FAT32 file systems greater than 32GB in Windows XP. Since transitioning to larger hard drives and to move with the latest Windows technology, National Instruments now ships with NTFS standard on PXI embedded controllers if the controller was not originally ordered as dual-boot. If you wish to use the FAT32 file system, you should be able to use the recovery CD provided with your controller (using an external CD-ROM) to reinstall the OS. You can also use tools such as Partition Magic to change the format of the hard drive.

[manora]

Thanks Kurt/Adam
You are right the problem emanates from NTFS but...
Formatted the disk using MAX, after that I was able to reconfigure the IP but it was still booting to safe mode with MAX showing "connected(bad configuration)" or some thing of the sort and the monitor does not show the mount: invalid parameter message.
So I guess this is because the MAX format does not change the file system.
Next step will be trying to use the recovery CD.....
I'll post my progress.

manora

[manora]

Hi,
I used the recovery CD to change the file system to NTFS, it took a while and it installed windows XP from scratch differently from FirstWare that ghosts it (I think). And it didn't install any NI stuff what so ever.
At the end I got the same result as with using the remote system format disk option.
i.e. The RT controller boots in safe mode displaying the previous message without the mount error but this time I can configure the IP address.
Still I can't install software to it, I get the list of features to install, I select them and press next, then I get a dialog saying:
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Cannot process install because other dependencies are required:
LabVIEW RT 1.0.1
LabVIEW RT 6.0.1
LabVIEW RT 6.1.0
LabVIEW RT 7.0.0
LabVIEW RT 7.1
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Is this a host or RT Controller issue now?
What's next? Thanks for the help

[Adam_U]

If I am hearing right, you should be in the true RT environment on the PXI controller now (not safemode). Is LabVIEW RT installed on the host computer also? It sounds like that's the dependency you're missing.