[gentoo-alpha] Problems booting, as in the forum

["Fluff" <fluff@fluff.se>]

I tought I'd give it a try posting here as well as in the forums. My problem
persists :( I even tried booting of the kernel provided for me on Jay
Maynard's LiveCD previously today.

TIA,



/Fluff


Original post follows:
"Hello, 

I've been trying to install Gentoo on one of my alpha-computers, a DEC 3300.
But I've been having problmes with the boot-procedure. I've installed the
system and compiled a kernel but when I try to boot the kernel I get: 

aboot>b boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-alpha.nogz root=/dev/sdc2 
aboot: loading uncompressed boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-alpha.nogz... 
aboot: segment 0, 3407452 bytes at 0xfffffc0000310000 
aboot: zero-filling 291180 bytes at 0xfffffc000064fe5c 
dboot: starting kernel boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-alpga.nogz with arguments
root=/dev/sdc2 


Then the screen flicks black for a second and then I get thrown out to the
SRM console again with the following code: 

halted CPU 0 

halt code = 6 
double error halt 
PC = 200000000 
boot failure 


But when I'm booting the kernel from the cd (2.4.19) The kernel boots of
nice untill i get a Kernel panic: 

VFS: Cannot open root device "sdc2" or 08:22 
Please append a correct "root=" boot option 
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:22"


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