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

[Henry N. <hen...@ar...>]

I have no Vista running. But from an example of install I have lots of
screenshots. Perhaps you will find suggestions from there:
http://www.henrynestler.com/colinux/screenshoots/Vista-Album

The "ntconsoleflood" is also fixed in coLinux version 0.7.3 final release.

Henry

Jonathan Deitch wrote:
>  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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