Re: [coLinux-users] Cannot find File specified

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

Dave Coventry wrote:
> I haven't run my Colinux system for a while but find I'm getting errors:
>
> ============== snip ========================
> colinux-daemon @gentoo.conf
> Cooperative Linux Daemon, 0.7.3
> Daemon compiled on Sat May 24 22:36:07 2008
>
> vmlinux: The system cannot find the file specified.
> error loading vmlinux file
> daemon: exit code 81c09401
> daemon: error - CO_RC_ERROR_ERROR, line 37, file src/colinux/os/winnt/user/file.
> c (14)
> ============== snip ========================
>
> Can anyone see what's going wrong?
> It seems as though it cannot find the file 'vmlinux' from within the image file.

Yes, that is what the error message means. The file "vmlinux" does not 
exist or can't open by colinux-daemon.exe

The file "vmlinux" typically should exist in same directory as you 
colinux-daemon.exe. If you have this in an other directoy, you needs to 
add the path in the config file.

Please change into the directory where the current file "vmlinux" exist 
and than run there "colinux-daemon.exe @gentoo.conf"

Check, that the file is not blocked by Virus scanner.
Try to access the file with some commands on Windows command prompt, like
   DIR vmlinux
   COPY vmlinux dummy.tmp

Check, that the config file "gentoo.conf" is only plain text, and not 
UTF-8 coded, and not saved as Windows Wide Char (two bytes per char).

As workarround try the command line overwriter:
colinux-daemon.exe kernel=vmlinux @gentoo.conf

-- 
Henry N.