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Re: Re:kernel boot failure



That is it, replaced the scsi card with a 
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:08, Rich Payne wrote:
> 
> Did you include support in your kernel for whichever SCSI controller you
> have (or setup the initrd) and SCSI disks?
> 
> --rdp
> 
> On 24 Feb 2003, mel kravitz wrote:
> 
> > Joakim Roubert wisely said..
> > > > gzip -9 vmlinux, cp vmlinux.gz  /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20
> > >
> > > Don't do this.
> > > Use the /usr/src/linux/arch/alpha/boot/vmlinux.gz instead.
> > > There are some specific things made when compressing the kernel, that
> > is
> > > already made during the kernel compile.
> > > Simply copy this compressed file to your boot and try again. Should
> > work
> > > much better.
> > >
> > > /Joakim
> > i 'fixed'('make boot' rather than 'make' ) then i copied:
> > /usr/src/linux/System.map  /boot/System.map-2.4.20
> > and /usr/src/linux/arch/alpha/boot/vmlinux.gz  /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20
> > with an ln -s boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20  vmlinuz-2.4.20 in /.
> > /etc/about.conf lines now read:
> > 0:1/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda1
> > 1:1/vmlinuz-2.4.20 ro root=/dev/sda1
> > rebooting stops with:
> > VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or 08:01
> > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> > kernel panic : VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:01 ???
> > -Mel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Rich Payne
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