The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.os.linux.alpha as well.
Help colleagues! I have just compiled the 2.4.1 kernel for my Alpha machine and tried to boot using it. Using the SRM firmware, the system failed to boot. I used the normal "make dep;make clean;make boot" after a clean configuration upgrade (make oldconfig and make menuconfig to double check things). The kernel size seem unusual at 1295574 bytes whereas my old 2.2.18 kernel has a size of 977541. The aboot output shows that it finds the kernel, and uncompresses it successfully. I just get a hard halt as soon as it tries to boot from it. I then get the SRM prompt back. I am running Debian 2.2 with no unstable/testing extensions that I know of. I am lost on this one. Any help appreciated... Some output from the 2.2.18 operating kernel fea6::/proc/: cat cpuinfo cpu : Alpha cpu model : EV56 cpu variation : 7 cpu revision : 0 cpu serial number : system type : EB164 system variation : PC164 system revision : 0 system serial number : cycle frequency [Hz] : 500000000 timer frequency [Hz] : 1024.00 page size [bytes] : 8192 phys. address bits : 40 max. addr. space # : 127 BogoMIPS : 497.02 kernel unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0) user unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0) platform string : Digital AlphaPC 164 500 MHz cpus detected : 1
