Will try your suggestions later today. I suspect that when I put the drive in the A400 it picked the lan as eth1 which wasn't configured. Thanks very much for your help it's much appreciated.
Mike Hosken Sent from my iPhone > On 22/07/2016, at 07:39, Helge Deller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > >> On 21.07.2016 18:11, Grant Grundler wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 6:05 AM, Mike Hosken <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Helge, >>> >>> The DD of image worked but still no interaction however I've made some >>> progress but still can interact via serial. What I've done is installed a >>> fresh Debian Jessie on my A180c installed sshd and then the 64 bit kernel, >>> via apt-get then removed drive stuck in in the A400. This worked and it >>> boots to login prompt. >>> The sad news is that no networking works or interaction via console. > > If you prepared the disc on the A180, does it worked there and got an IP > address via DHCP ? > Yes it got the right IP address from dhcp and installed via the netinstall > image. > I propose you completely install the A180 with this disc, including setting > up networking > and getting serial logins on the serial ports. If that all works, simply > putting > the disc into the A400 should be sufficient to get it up with networking and > serial > ports working there too. With the serial port it must be a hardware issue. There is no reason it shouldn't work. > >> If you get to a login prompt, it usually means the IO subsystem is >> working (was able to read file system from disk). > > True. > >> >> I expect the console to "just work". I don't recall A400 needing >> different kernel command line to enable console. But might manually >> have to add an entry to /etc/inittab as described here: >> https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Debian_Ports_Installation >> >> 2. if you are running on serial console, either make sure that a >> getty gets started on the ttyS0 device in /etc/inittab, or run this >> command: >> echo "T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100" >> >> /target/etc/inittab > > You may want to add a second line (with ttyS1 instead of ttyS0) for the > second serial port (if the A400 has two serial ports). > >> Once you do get console working, "lspci" will tell you which PCI
