A kernel compiled from vanilla-sources-2.6.15.1 (which is marked stable for alpha) does not work on Alpha XL. When booting I see the message on the screen saying: * Checking root filesystem ... fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=root' * filesystem couldn't be fixed :( For the complete messages, see the attached jpg. A kernel compiled from vanilla-sources-2.6.14.2 (which in the mean time disappeared from portage) works okay and now I also tried 2.6.16.16 (which is marked stable for x86) and this one works okay too. I suggest marking 2.6.15.1 unstable for alpha in favor of 2.6.16.16.
Created attachment 88751 [details] error messages booting kernel-2.6.15.1 on alpha
And I almost forgot: # emerge info Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/alpha/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.16.16 alpha) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16.16 alpha EV4 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present] dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev4 -pipe" CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/data/linux/gentoo/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.intouch.nl/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/" PKGDIR="/data/linux/gentoo/packages/alpha" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/compile" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="alpha alsa apache2 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt dri eds encode esd expat foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xml xmms xorg xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS
Since my suggestion (marking 2.6.15.1 unstable for alpha) is silently ignored and there are newer kernel versions (of which none are marked stable for alpha) which don't have this issue I close this bug as wontfix...
