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From: Brian Parkhurst <brianp@×××××××.net>
To: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@g.o>, gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] 2.6.x and SWXCR(DAC96) (was) Good stable kernel for AXP
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 05:02:13
Message-Id: 000a01c44dde$e9d7a9c0$3301a8c0@ICHIRO
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alpha] 2.6.x and SWXCR(DAC96) (was) Good stable kernel for AXP by Jay Maynard
1 Yuck, still not working,
2
3 Kernel panic unknown device root(0,0)
4
5 I'm going to try your method by copying the system onto my old internal 9.1
6 Gb (narrow drive) (which originally contained an HP RH 7.2 Alpha
7 distribution).
8
9 This may take some time as the kernel isn't built for that drive.... but the
10 livecd for alpha will come in handy as an emergency boot disk...
11
12 Brian..
13
14
15 ----- Original Message -----
16 From: "Jay Maynard" <jmaynard@g.o>
17 To: <gentoo-alpha@l.g.o>
18 Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:24 AM
19 Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] 2.6.x and SWXCR(DAC96) (was) Good stable kernel
20 for AXP
21
22
23 > On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:24:58AM -0700, Brian C. Parkhurst wrote:
24 > > Has anyone been able to get a SWXCR (DAC960) running on a 2.6.5 kernel?
25 >
26 > I'm running it right now on the system I'm typing this on.
27 >
28 > > 3:2/boot/vmlinuz-2.6 root=/dev/host0/target0/part2 "console=ttyS1,9600"
29 > /dev/rd/host0/target0/part2
30 >
31 > > The default RD devices under 2.6.5 don't work and the Kernel panics
32 unable to
33 > > remount root as it can't find the root device.
34 >
35 > Yeah, this drove me nuts. I wound up copying the entire system to another
36 > drive attached to a SCSI controller, booting, and looking through the
37 > /dev/rd tree until I found it.
38 >
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