Problem booting Alpha 2100 Unix 3.2C

From: <Mark_Cuthbert_at_yorkshirewater.plc.uk>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:06:29 +0000

I am trying to boot a replacement Alpha2100 from a copy of a running
system.

This has a SWXCR raid controller serving the disks.

Will boot OK from GENVMUNIX, but will not boot from a kernel built on the
machine.

Gives following error on console, starts loading vmunix, goes through
setting
up the devices, gets as far as:-

<snip console output>
lvm0: configured.
lvm1: configured.
bootdevice_parser: unknown protocol name 'RAID'
setconf: Bootdevice parser failed to translate bootdevice RAID 0 8 0 0 0 0
 0.
panic (cpu 0): setconf: bootdevice parser failed

DUMP: No primary swap, no explicit dumpdev.
          Nowhere to put header, giving up.

halted CPU 0

halt code = 5
HALT instruction executed
PC = fffffc000046d380

Please could you advise what may be the problem with this. Is it some
incorrectly set console variable?


Regards

Mark Cuthbert


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