[gentoo-alpha] Good stable kernel for AXP

[gentoo-alpha] Good stable kernel for AXP

[maillist]

Hi,

I've been running Gentoo w/2.4 and now 2.6.4 kernels on my x86 boxes and
it's bugging me that my Alpha is DeadHat 7.2 (2.4.9 w/patches).  So, I
figured Gentoo-it.

My AXP's a Miata 500au with 1GB of RAM and some noisy RZ29s, but it's been
up for 267 days now serving my web, local e-mail, ntp, MySQL, etc., so I'm
a little reluctant to take it down for a day or two or three to build a
new system (albeit on different HDs) if it's not going to be as stable.

Anyone care to offer up some thoughts on a kernel version and type
(vanilla, alpha, etc)?

Also, any reason for skipping the EV56s on the Stages?

TIA,
Rich J


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Re: [gentoo-alpha] Good stable kernel for AXP

[Jay Maynard]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 12:24:31AM -0500, maillist@society.servebeer.com wrote:
> Anyone care to offer up some thoughts on a kernel version and type
> (vanilla, alpha, etc)?

The gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.5-r1 kernel works on Alpha just fine. I've got it
running on my production box. It has all the Alpha-specific features from
the alpha-sources (2.4.21) kernel.

> Also, any reason for skipping the EV56s on the Stages?

uhm...huh? The stage tarballs are intended to run on any Alpha, and so are
built for EV4. If you want to have binaries optimized for your system, then
you get to build them. (There may be stage tarballs for multiple
architectures later, but for now, they're universal.)

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[gentoo-alpha] 2.6.x and SWXCR(DAC96) (was) Good stable kernel for AXP

[Brian C. Parkhurst]

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Has anyone been able to get a SWXCR (DAC960) running on a 2.6.5 kernel?

I have:
AS800 with 4 - 9.1Gb drives in a Raid5 on the SWXCR running on:
Linux finale.pyrobrian.com 2.4.21-alpha-r6 #3 Thu May 20 10:00:06 PDT 2004 alpha
EV56  GNU/Linux

my /etc/aboot.conf  (The default is 0 and is the same as 2)

0:2/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/rd/c0d0p2 "console=ttyS1,9600"
1:2/boot/vmlinuz-r4 root=/dev/rd/c0d0p2 "console=ttyS1,9600"
2:2/boot/vmlinuz-r6 root=/dev/rd/c0d0p2 "console=ttyS1,9600"
3:2/boot/vmlinuz-2.6 root=/dev/host0/target0/part2 "console=ttyS1,9600"

I've tried variations on option 3 but still no luck.

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.

Google searches yield similar results and success stories but no joy for me so
far.

Thanks,

Brian Parkhurst
brianp@prodigy.net
brianp@u.washington.edu

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Re: [gentoo-alpha] 2.6.x and SWXCR(DAC96) (was) Good stable kernel for AXP

[Jay Maynard]

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.

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Re: [gentoo-alpha] 2.6.x and SWXCR(DAC96) (was) Good stable kernel for AXP

[Brian Parkhurst]

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" <jmaynard@gentoo.org>
To: <gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org>
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.
>
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>


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