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From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@g.o>
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] 2.6.x and SWXCR(DAC96) (was) Good stable kernel for AXP
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:34:42
Message-Id: 20040608152451.GA17935@thebrain.conmicro.cx
In Reply to: [gentoo-alpha] 2.6.x and SWXCR(DAC96) (was) Good stable kernel for AXP by "Brian C. Parkhurst"
1 On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:24:58AM -0700, Brian C. Parkhurst wrote:
2 > Has anyone been able to get a SWXCR (DAC960) running on a 2.6.5 kernel?
3
4 I'm running it right now on the system I'm typing this on.
5
6 > 3:2/boot/vmlinuz-2.6 root=/dev/host0/target0/part2 "console=ttyS1,9600"
7 /dev/rd/host0/target0/part2
8
9 > The default RD devices under 2.6.5 don't work and the Kernel panics unable to
10 > remount root as it can't find the root device.
11
12 Yeah, this drove me nuts. I wound up copying the entire system to another
13 drive attached to a SCSI controller, booting, and looking through the
14 /dev/rd tree until I found it.
15
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Re: [gentoo-alpha] 2.6.x and SWXCR(DAC96) (was) Good stable kernel for AXP Brian Parkhurst <brianp@×××××××.net>