[coLinux-users] Crashing problem

[Lorne S. <dr...@sh...>]

I've been having a problem with coLinux crashing on me.  The crash
happens as soon as I start coLinux, but it only happens about 5%-10% of
the time.  I'm running coLinux on WinXP SP3.  When it crashes, it most
often just reboots the host PC.  Very rarely it will blue screen instead.

I've done some searching on the mailing list already and found some
posts about PAE causing a problem.  I did some experiments and I can get
coLinux to start without crashing by turning PAE off.  If I boot Windows
with the parameters /nopae /noexecute=alwaysoff, then I can't reproduce
the crash.  I've also experimented with the other parameters to
/noexecute, but alwaysoff is the only one that works since it's the only
one that truely disables PAE.

Unfortunately, I cannot run the system with PAE off.  I need PAE on so
DEP is enabled.  So my questions are: Is it possible to run with PAE on?
 Is there any other things I can try try and fix the crash?  I'm willing
to get into the code to try and track down this bug and fix it.  Where
should I get started?

-- 
Lorne Sturtevant
Sum Ergo Cogito