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From: Brian Parkhurst <brianp@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-alpha] 2.6.8 kernel and SWXCR (Mylex DAC960) controller
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 02:32:42
Message-Id: 002401c4ada8$1d6c6310$3301a8c0@ICHIRO
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Problem installing gentoo linux/genkernel environ on alpha platform by Bill.Glessner@cwu.EDU
1 After many months of trial and error. (Actually having the time to really
2 dig into it more).
3 I've managed to interpret the DAC960.c source code to determine what the
4 devfs names might be under the 2.6.8 kernel.
5 FYI (my root partition is the 2nd partition on the 1st Logical RAID 5
6 drive) (2 Logical volumes total)
7
8 My /etc/fstab
9 #Linux 2.6
10 /dev/rd/host0/target0/part1 none swap sw 0 0
11 /dev/rd/host0/target0/part2 / ext3 noatime 0 0
12 /dev/rd/host0/target1/part1 /export ext3 noatime 0 0
13
14
15 #Linux 2.4
16 #/dev/rd/disc0/part1 none swap sw 0 0
17 #/dev/rd/disc0/part2 / ext3 noatime 0 0
18 #/dev/rd/disc1/part1 /export ext3 noatime 0 0
19
20 My aboot.conf
21 0:2/boot/kernel-2.4.21-alpha-r12 root=/dev/rd/disc0/part2 console=ttyS0
22 console=tty0 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-alpha-r12 init=/linuxrc
23 2:2/boot/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/rd/host0/target0/part2
24 console=ttyS0 console=tty0 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8-gentoo-r6 init=/linuxrc
25
26 The key I found for this to work properly was to make certain the devfs file
27 system was properly compiled into the kernel and automounted the relevant
28 portions of my .config.
29
30 My .config file:
31 CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
32 CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y
33
34 Brian Parkhurst
35 brianp@×××××××.net
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