KRC-1 HDD clone Stuck: Verifying DMI Pool Data

    Hello guys,

    As advised on another post by SkyeFire I have been working on cloning the Hard drive of my KRC1 but sadly it ended up being very frustrating.

    The original hdd I found in the machine is a 60gb Toshiba, but when connected to clonezilla it shows up as a 30gb, the two partitions are quite small (around 2gb each).
    I suppose the HDD firmware was flashed in order to make disc show up as a 30gb.

    I tried a bunch of HDD's and if they are larger than 32gb they will not get detected in the post, I ended up purchasing a Hitachi 30gb that finally shows up and has enough room for the cloning process.

    I made two Images using a full sector disc image and a regular disc image.
    I tried those images in a Virtual Machine and they both seem to work fine, they just get stuck when VxWorks wants to start and checks for material compatibility on the VM which is normal.

    But now comes the problem, in the first post the Master HDD and the CD Rom get detected without issues, then it gets to :

    Verifying DMI Pool Data .......

    and fails showing up this message:

    Missing operating system.

    From what I found out online apparently this error happens because the motherboard has a different value stored in the CMOS for the boot options, it can happen when changing a HDD, normally accessing the BIOS should give me access to an advanced option to reset this value so it can move forward in the booting process with the new hdd.

    Another page suggested that it could be a jumper setting problem as depending on the HDD manufacturer jumper positions can vary. I think I tried every combination possible but basically either the Hitachi was detected in post as primary or no disk was detected so I doubt it's a jumper related issue.

    Do you guys know how I could access to the Bios as the teach pendant keyboard seems to do nothing during post? I tried connecting an old keyboard to the PS2 socket in the back of the teach pendant but it never worked.

    Is the Bios even accessible or is it password protected?

    Any input would be highly appreciated,

    Thank you, regards,
    Burt

    Quote from BurtGummer

    Do you guys know how I could access to the Bios as the teach pendant keyboard seems to do nothing during post? I tried connecting an old keyboard to the PS2 socket in the back of the teach pendant but it never worked.

    For KRC1 and KRC2, the KCP keyboard is not a "keyboard" in the sense of a typical one connected directly to the motherboard, but a remote terminal device whose driver is not loaded until Windows and/or KSS has completed boot. So that's normal.

    I'm honestly not certain about the PS/2 socket on the KCP -- I don't recall ever using it. Have you tried the PS/2 socket directly on the KPC motherboard? That's the only way I recall ever getting to the BIOS on a KRC1.

    KRC1 uses AT keyboard and yes you can get to BIOS with AT keyboard easily. Did you correctly cloned the disk? Did you also correctly set the jumpers on the disk and CD rom according to the positions on the IDE cable. *I see you already tried that.

    Usually I didn't have problems when cloning HDD's as long as the cloning software correctly cloned MBR(Master Boot Record which acts as a loader for installed OS).

    Thank you for your replies,

    Tried other cloning methods, used a raw image this time and still end up stuck at DMI Pool verification==> missing operating system.

    Cable should be ok, had to replace it as original one broke (old plastic got brittle and broke), I don't think the problem comes from the new cable and it was installed correctly as shown in your attachment and the original HDD boots fine with it.

    I really have the impression that my cloning went fine but for some reason the CMOS doesn't update with the new HDD.

    Found an AT/PS2 adapter on amazon but I have to wait 1 week to get it.

    If I reset the CMOS by removing the battery 5 seconds or set the jumper to CMOS reset (If present on that motherboard) would I risk bricking it as it still boots with the original hdd for the moment?

    I have no idea to which bios settings it would reset the motherboard and as it's not a common PC I don't want to mess anything up :thinking_face:

    Quote from BurtGummer

    If I reset the CMOS by removing the battery 5 seconds or set the jumper to CMOS reset (If present on that motherboard) would I risk bricking it as it still boots with the original hdd for the moment?

    I have no idea to which bios settings it would reset the motherboard and as it's not a common PC I don't want to mess anything up :thinking_face:

    It shouldn't brick nothing by removing CMOS battery, only CMOS settings are reset and you will also have to turn on motherboard by shorting PWR_ON jumper, because KUKA settings in BIOS got reset, so I would wait for the AT adapter or keyboard.

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