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

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

I saw a definite difference in behavior between the 0.7.3 and the 
"ntflood" 0.8.0 ...

0.7.3 would cause the system to lockup within a minute ... 0.8.0 ntflood 
would run OK for 4-5 minutes and then lock up (same exact symptoms).

The pictures, unfortunately, do not help.

As I memtioned, this problem occurs with minimal settings (initrd and 
root) booting the initrd ram boot.

No image, no network, no nothing.

If I can't get the RAM boot to work, then there's no point going any 
farther with anything else.

Any ideas?  I really need help on this ... if there isn't a solution 
soon, I will probably be forced to abandon using colinux altogether, and 
rethinking my whole way of working.  :-(

- Jonathan
Henry Nestler wrote:
> 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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