PXIe 8108 Rebooting whenever i connected to Max

[Suraaa]

Hi,

Iam Using PXIe 1082 chassis and pxie8108 controller. Pxi system having Dual Mode boot configuration (Windows/Other os boot and Labview RT Boot).If i boot with windows then no problem it is detecting in Max. If i trying to boot in Labview RT, monitor which is connected with Pxi system shows the following message

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Transferring Control to user program

Can't find suitable device for drive C

LabVIEW Real - Time Boot Loader

Build Time: Oct 22 2009 11:01:12

(C) Copyright 2002 - 2007 National Instruments Corporation

Error booting hard drive boot program.

Max system identification name:Ni - PXIe8108-2F12CD1D

LabVIEW Real-Time Single-Core Kernel found '2' CPU cores.

Consider installing NI RT Extensions for SMP (Multicore Support) module from MAX

Initializing network... Link Local IP address assigned.

Device 1 - MAC address:00:80:2f:12:cd:1d: - 169.254.103.152 (primary)

System state: No software installed

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if i connect Pxi with other PC MAX then Pxi system is rebooting...

in above Pxi message it is showing" Error booting hard drive boot program". This is the problem for Pxi Reboot ?

Can any one help me to solve the issue...

Vijay

[Josh_KNH]

Hi Vijay,
I suspect that this issue is because your system does not contain an RT compatible partition for installing LabVIEW RT.

If your system is configured for dual booting Windows and RT, then you need to have two partitions on your disk, one for Windows (typically NTFS) and a second for LabVIEW RT (either FAT32 or Reliance).

Since you already have windows on the target, you should first boot into Windows and attempt to create a second FAT32 partition for RT if you have some unpartitioned space available on your disk (depending on the version of Windows, they may require 3rd party tools).  Another option is to freshly install Windows on the disk using the NI-provided OS Recovery media, which has installation options for configuring a disk to support dual-boot Windows and RT.

As to your original issue as described I have forwarded on your problem internally for further investigation - in general simply lacking a formatted partition should not cause RT safemode to reboot.  In your specific situation, however, it would still be best for you to configure the paritions from within Windows anyway instead of using the tool in MAX to ensure that the Windows partition is correctly preserved.

Cheers,

JoshH