I've had the 2.0 eval version sitting around for ages, and finialy decided
to give it a try on my Progeny laptop. Sure glad I didn't buy anything,
cause I'm going no where fast.
I had no problem compiling kernel 2.4.5 with the win4lin patch. It's up
and running. The problam was installing the software. I ended up using
alien on the rpm then running /opt/win4lin/postinst_rpm.sh. That produced
the following error:
Failed to load Mmerge.o
See /var/win4lin/log/insmod.log for load failure messages.
Mmerge.o: unresolved symbol mki_install_hook
Warning: kernel-module version mismatch
Mmerge.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.16
while this kernel is version 2.4.5-win4lin
Well, out of optimism I tried running winsetup. Loading the Windows CD
worked, but booting seemed to fail:
Installing DOS system files.
Configuring DOS image files.
BIOS V2.09 Copyright 1984, 1985 Award Software Inc.
Quadtel Expanded Memory Manager Copyright(c) 1989, 1990 Quadtel Corp.
All Rights Reserved
Making MDA Image.
MERGE_NL: dos: ERROR: Win4Lin drivers are not loaded.
Cannot run DOS or Windows. Either Win4Lin is not fully installed
on your system, or the drivers cannot load.
WARNING: MDA image was not made.
(10)
WARNING: No image files were made.
WARNING: Images creation failed.
ERROR: Failed to make all DOS image files.
Installation of DOS partialy failed.
Error: Minimal automatic pre-installation of DOS7 failed.
DOS 7 installation failed.
Press return to continue...
So far this program isn't filling my needs, so no sale. Switching to
something rpm based isn't an option here, I just don't want to. :) So I'm
left with the burning questions:
Even though not officially supported, does win4lin run on Debian
(Progeny 1.0 in my case)
Is there a way to get the eval version running on 2.4.5? Going back to
earlir kernels is more or less out as the system is all ReiserFS, so
anyway I go I'll be building my own kernel.
Ok then, back to figuring out how to fix a dual-boot on 3.7 GB for now.
Andrew S. Zbikowski | Home: 763.591.0977
http://www.ringworld.org | PCS: 612.306.6055
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If they did MS would have realized HailStorm is a
bad name for their new services.
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