Re: Problems booting, as in the forum
Jay Maynard <[email protected]>
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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. -- [email protected] mailing list