woody on a dec alpha xl 266; kernel version 2.4.18

[Joachim Köstler <j-e-k@gmx.net>]

Good evening!

I have successfully installed woody on a dec alpha xl 266 machine. 
Kernel version 2.2 seems to work fine.

After having upgraded to kernel version 2.4.18 I can no longer boot. 
After having recognized the scsi host adapter and loaded the correct 
module (as for kernel version 2.2) the kernel panics because Linux does 
not seem to be able to mount the root fs (error message: cannot mount 
root fs). The module for the scsi host adapter is not compiled into the 
kernel, but I think as there is an initrd things should go all right. I 
cannot figure out why kernel version 2.2 works fine whereas kernel 
version 2.4.18 does not although the parameters are the same (root = 
/dev/sda3; initrd = /initrd).

Could anybody help me?

Thank you very much

Joachim Köstler