Hi all - the issue is resolved.
As a reminder - the hardware is a JS21 in an H-chassis.
The PowerPC installer does not run a getty on HVC0 (nor does it provide an
option to do so) leaving
debian's default PowerPC install non-functional on any Pseries/Power machine
without graphics hardware.
The modifications required to get Debian release 4 operational on a JS21 are as
follows:
o /etc/inittab - add these lines to the inittab file:
# Start a getty on a the PowerPC Hypervisor console.
H0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 hvc0
o /etc/securetty - add this line to the securetty file:
# Run on the PowerPC Hypervisor console
hvc0
The challenge here is to rescue the "broken" OS installation - this can be done
in two ways (that I know of).
1) Using SMS - boot from the CDROM image and use the rescue64 image to mount / .
2) Boot from the H.Disk and when you get the boot: prompt - enter "Linux single"
Once your in single user mode - you can edit the inttab and securetty files.
Once I make the changes - i simply enter the init 2 command... and the system
is alive and well. (a reboot will work as well).
All - thanks for your time on this issue.
QUESTION - I assume this is some type of bug... Where can this be posted ?
Dave O.
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