Re: Problems booting, as in the forum

Jay Maynard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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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