Re: 2.6.x and SWXCR(DAC96) (was) Good stable kernel for AXP

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