Lynn Ziegler wrote: >I have tried to install win4lin as an upgrade using the downloaded >installer. The net effect has been that I cannot run win4lin at all. Let > >me describe the complete set of events: > >1. First, before installing win4lin 3.0, I upgraded my Red Hat 7.0 > to Red Hat 7.1. > >2. Then, after I checked to be sure Red Hat 7.1 was working, I >went ahead with the downloaded upgrade win4lin-install program. It >seemed to work fine - that is, I entered my registration, followed >the directions, it downloaded a new win4lin and kernel for my Red >Hat 7.1, it installed them, and, then, it asked me to reboot. I did. > >3. Here it gets a bit interesting. First of all, the default boot was >linux not win4lin. As I recall from before, the default boot after >installing 2.0 was the win4lin linux. Second, when I tried choosing >win4lin at boot time, it simply froze there. When I tried linux, it >loaded properly but gave a strange error just after win4lin came up >in the boot sequence which said that hdc was reporting 250xxxxxx but >its size was actually 250yyyyyy. > >4. After the boot finished I could log on and everything except >win4lin worked fine. However, when I tried to use win4lin, it said >that win4lin driver not loaded or open limit exceeded. (I expected >something like this since before I had had to run the win4lin linux >at boot time for win4lin to work.) > >5. So what was the matter. Something must be wrong with either the >/boot files or with the lilo.conf. Here is the contents of /boot: > >total 4704 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 May 13 2000 boot.0300 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5824 Feb 23 13:33 boot.b >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Feb 23 13:33 chain.b >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jun 21 16:34 kernel.h -> >kernel.h-2.4.2 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 405 Jun 21 16:34 kernel.h-2.4.2 >-rw------- 1 root root 23040 Jun 21 17:05 map >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23108 Feb 23 13:33 message >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21282 Feb 23 13:33 message.ja >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jun 21 16:34 module-info -> >module-info-2.4.2-2 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13598 Apr 8 19:57 >module-info-2.4.2-2 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640 Feb 23 13:33 os2_d.b >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 22 00:45 System.map -> >System.map-2.4.2-2 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 410990 Apr 8 19:57 >System.map-2.4.2-2 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 415367 Jun 9 03:04 >System.map-2.4.2-win4lin >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 10 19:46 >System.map-pre-win4lin -> System.map-2.2.16-22 >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2280836 Apr 8 19:57 vmlinux-2.4.2-2 >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 21 16:34 vmlinuz -> >vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 781806 Apr 8 19:57 vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 783275 Jun 9 03:04 win4lin > >and here is the contents of /etc/lilo.conf: > >boot=/dev/hda >map=/boot/map >install=/boot/boot.b >prompt >timeout=50 >default=linux >message=/boot/message >linear > >image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22 > label=linux > read-only > root=/dev/hda2 > >other=/dev/hda1 > label=dos ># Added by NeTraverse for Win4Lin kernel >image = /boot/win4lin >label = win4lin >root = /dev/hda2 > >This confuses me since it seems to say that the image is the >(non-existant) >file vmlinuz-2.2.16-2 even though when I boot linux it works just fine >and >shows that it is version 2.4.2-2. > >Help, please! > >Lynn Ziegler > > >_______________________________________________ >Win4Lin-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users > Lynn, look very closely at the win4lin section in lilo.conf .. you should see 2 things: 1) after image, the next 2 linese are NOT indented as the prior images are 2) the win4lin section has spaces on BOTH sides of hte '=' sign .. which should not be there After you manually adjust the lilo.cong and run /sbin/lilo, you will be able to boot into win4lin normally (even though a uname will still show 2.4.2-2 and no win4lin) Bob Jones _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Win4Lin-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
