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From: "Donsbach
To: Fluff <fluff@×××××.se>, gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-alpha] Problems booting, as in the forum
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:43:25
Message-Id: E8C532D801BE5B479B28B626184E8CDD0513E2A7@tayexc14.americas.cpqcorp.net
1 Timeout. "DEC 3300"? As in DEC 3000 Model 300? I.e. one of the old
2 turbochannel bus boxes?
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4 If so, Linux is not supported on the turbochannel architecture machines.
5 You could run one of the *BSD variants however.
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7 If it is some other "DEC 3300", let us know.
8
9 Jeff D
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12 -----Original Message-----
13 From: Fluff [mailto:fluff@×××××.se]
14 Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:34 PM
15 To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
16 Subject: [gentoo-alpha] Problems booting, as in the forum
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18
19 I tought I'd give it a try posting here as well as in the forums. My
20 problem persists :( I even tried booting of the kernel provided for me
21 on Jay Maynard's LiveCD previously today.
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23 TIA,
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26
27 /Fluff
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30 Original post follows:
31 "Hello,
32
33 I've been trying to install Gentoo on one of my alpha-computers, a DEC
34 3300. But I've been having problmes with the boot-procedure. I've
35 installed the system and compiled a kernel but when I try to boot the
36 kernel I get:
37
38 aboot>b boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-alpha.nogz root=/dev/sdc2
39 aboot: loading uncompressed boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-alpha.nogz...
40 aboot: segment 0, 3407452 bytes at 0xfffffc0000310000
41 aboot: zero-filling 291180 bytes at 0xfffffc000064fe5c
42 dboot: starting kernel boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-alpga.nogz with arguments
43 root=/dev/sdc2
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45
46 Then the screen flicks black for a second and then I get thrown out to
47 the SRM console again with the following code:
48
49 halted CPU 0
50
51 halt code = 6
52 double error halt
53 PC = 200000000
54 boot failure
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56
57 But when I'm booting the kernel from the cd (2.4.19) The kernel boots of
58 nice untill i get a Kernel panic:
59
60 VFS: Cannot open root device "sdc2" or 08:22
61 Please append a correct "root=" boot option
62 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:22"
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Re: [gentoo-alpha] Problems booting, as in the forum Jay Maynard <jmaynard@××××××××.cx>