Re: Re: 2.4.19 kernel

--On Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:13:54 AM +0100 Stefan Fent <[email protected]> 
wrote:

>> I really hate having to try and answer all of those questions.  There
>> are  enough of them I just do not think my 15-30 minute scan of the help
>> is  really good enought to get it right.  What I was hoping for from the
>> rpm's  that I downloaded from Stephan R's directory was to benefit from
>> the  expertise at SuSE.  At this point, I would still prefer using the
>> SuSE  kernel if I can.  Is there something stupid I am doing?  If not,
>> what are  the differences between the kernel I build from
>> www.kernels.org and the one  that I get from SuSE?
>
> It would be very helpful to have the error messages you get from
> SuSE-kernel. The differences are quite big.

Stefan,

Here is the last screen from the failed boot:

hda: ATAPI 32x CD-ROM 256KB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
FDC 0 is a post 1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000k size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 16 devices)
Cronyx Ltd, Synchronous PPP and CISCO HDLC (c) 1994
Linux port (c) 1998 Building Number Three Ltd & Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak.
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for Net4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32 kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMTP for Linux NET4.0
VFS: Cannot open root device "sdc2" or 8:22
Please append a correct "root-" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:22

Note, this system is DEC Personal Workstation with 512 mbytes of RAM and a 
qlogic fast wide SCSI controller in addition to the onboard SCSI support. 
The system is a fresh install of SuSE Alpha 7.1 from CD's.

What should I try next?

Thanks,

Bill

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