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

[Paolo M. <pao...@gm...>]

At home I have Vista.
I have used a little colinux on Vista, only to see if it works.
I had found the bug of "flooding", that Henry have solved.
The other things seem work for me .... I don't have important problem.
But I use it a little. I use a lot colinux on XP at work.
It is interesting understand what exactly works and what has problems....
Have you problem with a very simple ramdisk ?
I could try your images ....
Bye,
Paolo

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Jonathan Deitch <tz...@sp...> wrote:
> 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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