Re: [coLinux-users] Vista SP1 - complete failure

[Jonathan D. <tz...@sp...>]

Whoops ... I spoke too soon.

The "ntconsoleflood" 0.8.0 version allows the system to boot, and run 
for a bit.

After about 5 minutes, however, the same exact circumstances as before 
occur.

Reproduced with all the same settings (including the barebones /dev/RAM 
boot).

Same symptoms with vista before after colinux shutdown - everything runs 
very slow, entire PC is unusable.

So still no solution.

- Jonathan

Jonathan Deitch wrote:
> OK ... update ...
>
> After diving into the colinux-users archive, I saw a note about the 
> 0.8.0 test version for ntconsoleflood ... that actually seems to have 
> fixed this issue.
>
> As noted in the email string that led to that test version, the Vista 
> Business I'm running it on is a multi-core cpu; this may be another 
> example where a SMP setup is breaking the 'older' versions of colinux.
>
> My previous system, is a WinXP P4 2.4 .. which is a single cpu system.
>
> - Jonathan
>
> Jonathan Deitch wrote:
>> I've tried every trick I can find on the web, and I can't get /any/ 
>> version of colinux running on Vista SP1.
>>
>> Tried 0.7.3 (release version) and the latest 0.8.x development 
>> version.  Same exact symptom.
>>
>> What happens is the system boots up, and seems to be just fine.
>>
>> After about 60 seconds, /both /the linux /and/ Vista slow to a crawl 
>> and neither is usable.
>>
>> Even if you get Colinux shut down, Vista is /still/ slow as molasses 
>> and the only recovery is to reboot (and that's if Vista doesn't 
>> freeze on shutdown).
>>
>> Tried with multiple system images (various flavors of Linux), same thing.
>>
>> Tried with the bare Ramdisk boot (just initrd.gz) - same thing.
>>
>> Tried to run a debug on the bare ramdisk boot ... the instant the 
>> system started, the entire machine rebooted.  No bluescreen, just 
>> black screen then POST.
>>
>> So no way to capture debug info, either.
>>
>> So I'm completely stuck ... and this is a huge issue for me ... I do 
>> major development work under colinux, and they want to retire my XP 
>> box, since the entire company is migrating to Vista.
>>
>> Soon I won't be given a choice; I need this working before that 
>> happens ...
>>
>> Anyone got any ideas?
>>
>> Remember ... the image in this case is irrelevant - the problem 
>> occurs w/the initrd.gz RAM boot. so it's something endemic to within 
>> colinux and its kernel itself.
>>
>> - Jonathan
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