Re: [Plex86-devel] Re: [plex86] plex86.o module problems on K 2.4.10

[Christian Boltz]

Hi all,

On Thu, 25. April 2002 12:59, Thomas Breitfeld wrote:
>     ./misc/../kernel/plex86.o: init_module: Invalid argument
>     Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
>     including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> The kernel module failed to load!
>
> And /var/log/messages/shows
>
> plex86: retrieve_vm_pages: ret with n=0 
> retrieve_vm_pages returned error.
> retrieve_monitor_pages returned error

There seems to be a problem with some (?) SuSE Kernels.
I tried loading the plex86 module with SuSE kernel 2.4.16-GB.
Thomas Breitfeld uses SuSE kernel 2.4.10-4GB.
On both kernels the plex86 kernel module didn't load. So I'm afraid 
other versions of the SuSE kernel don't like plex86, too.

Sometimes I could load the kernel module using
    for i in `seq 1 100`; do ./load_module.sh ; done
But this wasn't really a solution because plex86 caused a reboot when 
starting with a new (empty) diskimage that was created by the 
createdisk.sh script and partitioned using fdisk.

Now I've compiled a vanilla 2.4.18 (using the .config from SuSE 
2.4.16-4GB). With this kernel, plex86 seems to work - I already got the 
"Error loading operating system" message ;-)

Is there any documentation about installing Windows 98 on plex86?


Christian Boltz
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