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

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

[Fluff]

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

[Donsbach, Jeff]

Timeout. "DEC 3300"? As in DEC 3000 Model 300? I.e. one of the old
turbochannel bus boxes?

If so, Linux is not supported on the turbochannel architecture machines.
You could run one of the *BSD variants however.

If it is some other "DEC 3300", let us know.

Jeff D


-----Original Message-----
From: Fluff [mailto:fluff@fluff.se] 
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:34 PM
To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-alpha] Problems booting, as in the forum


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

[Jay Maynard]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 04:43:19PM -0500, Donsbach, Jeff wrote:
> Timeout. "DEC 3300"? As in DEC 3000 Model 300? I.e. one of the old
> turbochannel bus boxes?
> If so, Linux is not supported on the turbochannel architecture machines.
> You could run one of the *BSD variants however.
> If it is some other "DEC 3300", let us know.

It could be either. There is indeed a Digital Server 3300 (and 3305, and
3300/3305R), as described at
http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/archive/3300/ . It's a renumbered
Alphaserver 800.

> 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"

I've seen the discussion about this on comp.os.linux.alpha, but have no
wisdom to offer.

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