[coLinux-users] Still blue screen also on Pentium D 830 with DEP OptOut excepting colinux on

[Kevin <kjs...@ya...>]

Pentium D 830 also blue screens unless DEP is disabled (on 0.6.3, haven't
tried 0.6.4). The D 830 is listed at
http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/chart/pentium_d.htm.

Kevin


> On 5/27/06, Kevin wrote:
> > On a P4 Model 521 neither /noexecute=OptIn nor 
> /noexecute=OptOut with 
> > colinux excepted, set via Performance Options GUI as 
> suggested by the 
> > two links below, worked to avoid blue screen. Only putting 
> > /noexecute=AlwaysOff in the boot.ini file allowed me to 
> start colinux. 
> > I'd much prefer OptOut so if there's a fix please let me know.
> >
> > The P4 521 is included in this list:
> > 
> http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/index_sitelet_view2.htm
> > Intel's Processor Identification Utility can be found here:
> > 
> http://support.intel.com/support/processors/tools/piu/sb/CS-014921.htm
> >
> 
> Kevin,
> 
>   I wasn't sure that just opting out the colinux binary was 
> enough, and it turns out I'm right.  You can't opt-out an 
> driver, so the kernel driver part of coLinux is still causing 
> problem.  That's why ultimately the boot.init 
> /NoExecute=AlwaysOff works, where the others don't.
> 
>   Thanks for identifying your type or processor.  This will 
> allow use to dig into the details of the processors that seem 
> to having this problem and allow use to make a proper 
> correction in coLinux's code...
>  Once this is done, then the less than desirable work-around of using
> /NoExecute=AlwaysOff will be a thing of the past...   Thanks for
> everyone who has stuck with us as we painstakingly work 
> through this problem.
> 
> --
> George