[coLinux-users] help setting up a dual boot system

[Samir K. <sam...@gm...>]

Hi

I have been trying to get the colinux to work on my dual boot system
(win2k pro + RH9) for the last few days but with no success. heres a
summary of what I have done so far

1. create /dev/cobd0 to /dev/cobd7 using mknod
2. installed colinux 0.6.1without downloading the Debian/Gentoo image.
modified the config file to this...
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<colinux>
	<block_device index="0" path="\Device\HarddiskVolume2" enabled="true" />	 
	 <block_device index="1" path="\Device\HarddiskVolume3" enabled="true" />
    <bootparams>root=/dev/cobd0</bootparams>
    <image path="vmlinux" />
    <memory size="64" />
    <network index="0" type="tap" name="tap" />
</colinux>
===============================================
3. copied the kernel modules packaged along with colinux into the
/lib/modules dir

I then tried to boot the colinux. failed with some error about unable
to locate /dev/hda3 (thats my root partition). I assumed this was due
to me not having modified fstab. I then modified fstab to remove all
references to /dev/hd* and added in /dev/cobd0 (as root) and
/dev/cobd1 as swap. However the bootup sequence still fails with some
error message about invalid superblock.

I have gone through the website/forums/wiki and am just about to give
up. Can somebody help me figure out whats going wrong?

Thanks
Samir