Re: [coLinux-devel] Problems with \Device\HarddiskVolumeX

[Ronald P. <pij...@ds...>]

> Hi,
> 
> Your settings are probably correct. I have been waiting for someone
> else to give feed back on using native partitions as I have problems
> too :) I wont go into them yet but will post back later. Essentially
> I can boot from a native partition but linux cannot read the
> superblock. I too am using Gentoo so have hacked checkroot and
> checkfs to boot. Also, I am not using a native swap partition as 
> colinux seems to have issues with swap partitions in general, though 
> I have not tried this again with 20040313.
> 
> Some info which may help:
> - You *must* look at your partitions from a logical(!) point of
> view as opposed to physical. Use Storage/Disk Management aka
> Logical Disk Manager. Just remember that Windows does its own
> thing.
> - The numbering of the hard disks and partitions is quite simple.
> Hard disks start at 0. Partitions start at 1. Looking at things
> from a logical point of view (as above) all should be clear.
> - Don’t know about that IO error. Kind of worrying. Try again
> with a loopback swap image. Are you sure your partitions are
> clean? boot native and e2fsck -f /dev/hda? perhaps?

I've been trying to get some more information by creating some test 
programs. None of them worked of course :-( . Later I realized that the 
\\?\ convention only works with the unicode version of the file 
functions. I assume that is known information?

Ronald.