[alpha newbie] howto setup aboot correctly?

Hello,

I just started installing Gentoo/Alpha 1.4-rc1 on my PWS, mostly
reading the docs for x86 install guide. Is there any prelimenary
version for Alpha installations?

Most things have worked out fine, but now I'm stuck into booting from
the disk directly. Aboot starts up fine, and Linux loads and boots
till it tries to mount it's root filesystem.

/dev/sda1 is /boot/ containing bootlx and vmlinuz
/dev/sda2 is swap
/dev/sda3 is the root filesystem (based on stage3 tarball)

aboot.conf:
0:1/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda3

Booting halts with "VFS: Cannot open root .." and complain that sda3
can't be mounted.

Since I couldn't emerge the gentoo-sources kernel (masked), I just
copied the kernel from the boot cd-rom into /boot. Please hit me if
this doesn't make sense.

I also tried copying the kernel to /dev/sda3 and changed aboot.conf
into the following line, but that didn't help.

0:1/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda3

Any help of pointer to more docs is greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot.


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