I also noticed when I installed w4l on RH7.1, that after the kernel was
installed, but before I rebooted, I had to issued the command /sbin/lilo
inorder for me to properly boot under w4l.

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, 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
>
>
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