SV: Problems booting, as in the forum

It is as described here. I've been running Slackware's alpha-port on another
machine just like this one. I'm sorry if my description failed a little. The
link provided is the machine I have. A 3300R to be correct. (R for rackmount
;D) 

I'll be holding my thumbs while sleeping tonight...


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> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Jay Maynard [mailto:[email protected]]
> Skickat: den 27 februari 2004 22:58
> Till: [email protected]
> Ämne: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Problems booting, as in the forum
> 
> 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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