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From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@××××××××.cx>
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Problems booting, as in the forum
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:56:59
Message-Id: 20040227215742.GA17838@thebrain.conmicro.cx
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-alpha] Problems booting, as in the forum by "Donsbach
1 On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 04:43:19PM -0500, Donsbach, Jeff wrote:
2 > Timeout. "DEC 3300"? As in DEC 3000 Model 300? I.e. one of the old
3 > turbochannel bus boxes?
4 > If so, Linux is not supported on the turbochannel architecture machines.
5 > You could run one of the *BSD variants however.
6 > If it is some other "DEC 3300", let us know.
7
8 It could be either. There is indeed a Digital Server 3300 (and 3305, and
9 3300/3305R), as described at
10 http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/archive/3300/ . It's a renumbered
11 Alphaserver 800.
12
13 > But when I'm booting the kernel from the cd (2.4.19) The kernel boots of
14 > nice untill i get a Kernel panic:
15 >
16 > VFS: Cannot open root device "sdc2" or 08:22
17 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
18 > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:22"
19
20 I've seen the discussion about this on comp.os.linux.alpha, but have no
21 wisdom to offer.
22
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