[diclaimer: I am an Alpha newbie. I know Linux/Debian] Hi!
I successfully installed 2.2 on a Alphastation 600 5/266, and tried to compile a new kernel. I downloaded the kernel-source-2.2.17 package, and ran the config script. As I don't want loadable module support (the machine will be an exposed webserver), I disabled that option. Otherwise I left everything more or less as it was. The kernel compiled w/o problems, and I installed it with dpkg. After a reboot, aboot hung with the line "loading vmlinuz"[1]. I tried booting with vmlinuz.old, and got the Tux logo. However, I got a kernel panic when the kernel couldn't find the root disk.[1] Have I missed something really basic? With i386, I've deselected the IDE controller, with similar results. But I have support for SCSI compiled in. The question is: how can a kernel compile lead to an unusable *old* kernel? Is there some blindingly obvious thing I missed (this is my first Debian system with SCSI, likewise my first Alpha.) tia, /g. [1] what it said exactly is unclear, as I chose to reinstall and try again. -- Gustaf Erikson | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | <http://stureby.net> | +46(0)70-444 0726 End of .signature reached: message halted.
