[Plex86-devel] Re: Plex86-devel digest, Vol 1 #13 - 2 msgs

[Drew Northup]

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> Message: 1
> From: Christian Boltz <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: Christian Boltz <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Plex86-devel] Re: [plex86] plex86.o module problems on K 2.4.10
> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 21:22:30 +0200
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> 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
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> 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.

Plex86 doesn't seem to like kernels with subversions.  I'm working
through Kevin's code to find a permanent solutions to this (will work
with all kernels).
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> 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 ;-)

Did you set up the image right?
> 
> Is there any documentation about installing Windows 98 on plex86?

There is an effort to get this to work.  There are some mentions of it
in the list archives.  Do we have a coordinator for that yet?

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> Christian Boltz
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