From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8759 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2004 05:02:13 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 9 Jun 2004 05:02:13 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BXvE4-0006xE-Ou for arch-gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 05:02:12 +0000 Received: (qmail 15977 invoked by uid 89); 9 Jun 2004 05:02:12 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-alpha-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7840 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2004 05:02:12 +0000 Message-ID: <000a01c44dde$e9d7a9c0$3301a8c0@ICHIRO> From: "Brian Parkhurst" To: "Jay Maynard" , References: <20040608111938.B8F3F22433B@thebrain.conmicro.cx> <20040608112329.GB16497@thebrain.conmicro.cx> <20040608082458.vg5mo8wg004s8ck8@webmail.spamcop.net> <20040608152451.GA17935@thebrain.conmicro.cx> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 22:02:02 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.132 X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out010.verizon.net from [4.65.13.253] at Wed, 9 Jun 2004 00:02:10 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] 2.6.x and SWXCR(DAC96) (was) Good stable kernel for AXP X-Archives-Salt: ca2c2242-1d79-4302-a7af-4eb7c54e6214 X-Archives-Hash: 3460df6623eb68481cfe0fb0984b76ed Yuck, still not working, Kernel panic unknown device root(0,0) I'm going to try your method by copying the system onto my old internal 9.1 Gb (narrow drive) (which originally contained an HP RH 7.2 Alpha distribution). This may take some time as the kernel isn't built for that drive.... but the livecd for alpha will come in handy as an emergency boot disk... Brian.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Maynard" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:24 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] 2.6.x and SWXCR(DAC96) (was) Good stable kernel for AXP > On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:24:58AM -0700, Brian C. Parkhurst wrote: > > Has anyone been able to get a SWXCR (DAC960) running on a 2.6.5 kernel? > > I'm running it right now on the system I'm typing this on. > > > 3:2/boot/vmlinuz-2.6 root=/dev/host0/target0/part2 "console=ttyS1,9600" > /dev/rd/host0/target0/part2 > > > The default RD devices under 2.6.5 don't work and the Kernel panics unable to > > remount root as it can't find the root device. > > Yeah, this drove me nuts. I wound up copying the entire system to another > drive attached to a SCSI controller, booting, and looking through the > /dev/rd tree until I found it. > > -- > gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list