Win4Lin problems

scap1784 · Apprentice Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 225

Well i bought Win4Lin 5 from their web site however whenever i try to install it it says that "It appears that you have booted into a Netraverse-enabled kernel, but the modules have failed to load. You must correct the problem before it will be possible to continue with the installation." So i talked to the Netraverse people and they told me to do a bunch of stuff and then they said that i should use the ebuild for gentoo well the ebuild is for version 4 not 5 so now i am pretty much back where i started. Has anyone had experiance with version 5 in gentoo and if so how do i get this to work.

cbradney · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 7:12 pm Post subject:

Hi. Similar issue here. I emerged the win4lin kernel and booted it up. I can install the win4lin 5 from their site (with an evalutaion code), and either win98 or me. I can then install applications but if I reboot after installing win4lin, I cant get the modules to load after the reboot. So in the end, same issue as me I think. You do not mention rebooting at all. Perhaps this is what you have done too? If this problem is fixed I'll be buying it for sure. Perhaps if you run the ebuild for version 4, and then run the 5 installer to upgrade? I havent tried that yet.. it might work though.

scap1784 · Apprentice Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 225

yes the is exactly the case it did happen after a reboot... i dunno i may try the upgrade thing

cbradney · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 11:17 pm Post subject:

/etc/init.d/Win4Lin start

simple as that. found that after trying in vain to emerge v4 and getting licence code issues even with evalution ones that the script was supposed to generate. The ebuild mentions doing an rc-update add Win4Lin default and while screwing around i eventually found that there was a Win4Lin file in /etc/init.d and it matched the /etc/rc.d/init.d/Win4Lin (0 diffs). Thought I'd give it a go copying the file across to /etc/init.d if it wasnt there in a 5.0 installation. It was there.. so, just run the above. Tested by doing the 5.0 install.. installing win me, then rebooting.. Of course, no drivers. ran the above.. worked. Happy. Will test more and buy a non eval licence if this is better than my testing on CXOffice

Ralphus Maximus · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 8:00 pm Post subject:

I had the same problem when I first switched to Gentoo. I contacted the NeTraverse Tech support and we found the /etc/rc.d to /etc/init.d solution. They said the documentation would be updated. That was last year.

As an aside, I've been using it for a couple of years now, and for the few winders programs I still need to run (video editing/conversion), Win4Lin is great. I ran an unofficial benchmark of sorts, using Nandub with the same source video, Win2k (native) processed the video 15 seconds faster than win98se (Win4Lin). I can live with that.

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cbradney · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 4:44 pm Post subject:

Ralpus, just wondering what kernel you run with win4lin support? The win4lin-sources? gs-sources? or something else?

Ralphus Maximus · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 7:29 pm Post subject:

cbradney · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2003 6:52 am Post subject:

hehe.. fair enough. Yesterday I tried out a test version of vmware to compare. Runs decently, but cost is 299 USD.. OUCH. I built a gentoo-sources r5 kernel last night (and now get DRI and ACPI working unlike with win4lin sources and all the other fixes that arent in win4lin sources). Today.. project.. try and merge the win4lin patches into an r5 source tree..

Will let you know how I go (if I have a filesystem etc afterwards

)

D33T · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2002 Posts: 38

cbradney · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 9:59 am Post subject:

doesnt seem to autostart anymore after the baselayout update.. anyone?

fireant_zim · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 3 Location: San Francisco

cbradney · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 8:52 am Post subject:

Unfortunately I forget where it was but there was a new Win4Lin script that I was told to use after the baselayout update. Can copy paste if anyone wants it I guess.

fireant_zim · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 3 Location: San Francisco

cbradney · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 7:38 pm Post subject:

This is my Win4Lin file from /etc/init.d. Works fine here.

#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/win4lin/files/win4lin.initd.new,v 1.1 2003/06/19 15:55:33 bass Exp $

depend() {
need net
}

start() {
ebegin "Starting Win4Lin"
/etc/rc.d/init.d/Win4Lin start >/tmp/win4lin_init.log
eend $?
}

stop() {
ebegin "Stopping Win4Lin"
/etc/rc.d/init.d/Win4Lin stop >/tmp/win4lin_init.log
eend $?
}

hank scorpio · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 56

cbradney · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 6:43 am Post subject:

default, rather than boot works just fine with the above startup script

hygge · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Posts: 66 Location: Sweden

i've just compiled a kernel from the win4lin-sources, the win4lin-sources-2.4.22.ebuild, and its
running just fine... But my win4lin setup has problems. the loadwindowCD step in the ebuildscript gave errors. these are the ones i got after a try by myself:

hygge · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Posts: 66 Location: Sweden

it should be right as i get this:

hygge · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Posts: 66 Location: Sweden

ah, i recompiled the kernel, this time not in a rush. i think the 'make mrproper' i did on the sources removed the applied patches, therefor it didnt work at first!
cheers

alfie · n00b Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 2

I just went through an involved debugging session with netraverse on this very problem. It's a simple fix, but it was hard to track down. The netraverse folks found it after a couple weeks of back and forth e-mails. They are *very, very* responsive with their tech support.

The win4lin ebuilds install win4lin device files in /var. If you have /var declared nodev in /etc/fstab, then win4lin will fail in the pre-installation of Windows, with the MERGE_NL error messages. The modules will still show up with lsmod, just that the win4lin devices won't work.

Quick Solution: Check /etc/fstab and see if the mount point with /var has nodev. If so, edit /etc/fstab, and remove that option from the mount point.

I followed the Gentoo Security HOWTO, it recommends making /tmp noexec, nodev and /var nodev. Didn't imagine it could ever make a difference in the installs.

xa0n · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 12

Hi alfie !

you made it :-)

that was my problem since 2 month....
now it is installing !

thanks

robfantini

I've got Win4lin up and running.

One thing I noticed is that the install put a file to
/etc/rc.d/init.d/Win4Lin
and not
/etc/init.d/Win4Lin

So I copied the file to /etc/init.d

Win4lin seemed to run ok so far without starting /etc/init.d/Win4Lin ..

I'm using Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9
and
sys-kernel/win4lin-sources-2.6.5-r1 *
app-emulation/win4lin-5.1 *

- NEO - · n00b Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 32 Location: Denmark