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

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

Jonathan Deitch wrote:
>  I can't find either winmsd or msinfo under Vista ... neither seems to
> exist ...

Have you tryed the "Search ... for file"?
MS says _all_ XP and Vista have it:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q300887/#appliesto

> 
> I did, earlier, post the IRQ results from the working Knoppix boot ...
> was that not sufficient?
> 
>            CPU0      
>   0:      57713  local-APIC-edge-fasteoi   timer
>   1:        141   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>   8:          1   IO-APIC-edge      rtc
>   9:         26   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
>  12:        151   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>  14:       1215   IO-APIC-edge      ide0
>  16:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   yenta
>  17:        122   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ahci
>  18:          2   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ohci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb6
>  19:         29   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ohci_hcd:usb2, ohci_hcd:usb3,

Under Linux the IRQ0 is a "fake" or it is redirected. Your Linux boot
messages says, that IRQ0 is not connected to the timerchip. BIOS has
sayed it is vector 0x31, I assume it is IRQ17. But this is your USB
controller. Vector 0x31 is false listed by BIOS, that says the other
kernel message from Gparted. The question is: Where is the timer real?
Native Linux can move the IRQ by reprogramming the timer chip (set a
virtual irq line or so). But coLinux should not do it. In a
virtualisation we have per define no hardware access.

You can see it in the list above, that your IRQ0 is not an "IO-APIC".
If we would know the real Timer IRQ, we can trace it on your machine.

If you not have the tools, then please open your hardware device control
center (I'm german, so please sorry for wrong translation) and view your
hardware devices in a list sorted by type, than lets see the IRQ list
seen by Windows. - Something must be difference from the list you send
from Knoppix. The question is what? You can send me a screenshot from
that view.

-- 
Henry N.