Re: woody on a dec alpha xl 266; kernel version 2.4.18
I would definitely compile the SCSI driver right into the kernel, and are
you sure you have the correct filesystem support compiled right in as
well? I've never really had a lot of luck with trying to load initrd's
right - it just isn't as reliable/clean (although it DOES work if you do
it right, I'm just not 31337 enough to be sure that it will always work)
-Josiah
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Joachim Köstler wrote:
> 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
>
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