On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:47:41PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > I've subscribed to the list, if it's used or not. I'd like to > participate in the ppc64 > stuff, sure. All development takes place at the ppc64 project on alioth?
Cool. Well, it is a matter of some dispute. The original ppc64 guys are aiming for a pure64 port, totally unaware of the effort some DDs where doing for a biarch solution (me, jbailey, doko, ...). I think we are going to streamline things now though. > >Well, for d-i and kernel work, i guess this will probably not be > >enough. I > >have access to leighbb's power3 box, complete with serial console and > >power > >switch, which may be more appropriate. Just the motivation is less if > >you > >don't have direct access to the hardware. > > > This is no problem. I've been told that there's a local power5 machine > in the > end of this year with LPAR support, where you can fork a LPAR for your > use > and control absolutely everything via HMC ;-) Ah, this would be indeed cool. > Apropos HMC. What is the supposed way to add an additional line to the > initial inittab, so that HMC is usable at all? It does work during the > installation, > but after the reboot you're lost if there's no hand installed sshd. Mmm, not sure about this, [email protected] would be the best place to ask about this. Did you try the network-console installation ? Friendly, Sven Luther
