On Tuesday 18 March 2003 08:02 am, Jure Buble wrote: > Hi, > > did anyone succesfully boot kernel 2.4.18 on SX 164 EB? > > I can compile kernel, but am unable to boot. The machine hangs > on unable to mount root FS. > Yes I assumed that i have something wrong in the kernel > config, but whatever i do machine wont boot. I also upgraded > to gcc 3.2, but even that did not help.
It could be the issue you're having is a common EB164 DMA bug. This patch works around it. http://skarpsey.dyndns.org/alpha-lfs/patches/linux-2.4-core_cia.patch The issue is described at: http://skarpsey.dyndns.org/alpha-lfs/alpha.html (search for "EB164") In any case the patch should be harmless to apply, even if it doesn't fix your problem. I've got it applied even though I don't suffer from this issue. > Is it possible that i have problems beacuse i use AlphaBios > and not SRM? Possibly, but IIRC AlphaBIOS+MILO should be able to handle that kernel. It's usually preferable to switch to SRM anyways, of course... -- Kelledin "If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does it still cost four figures to fix?"
