On Monday 18 Aug 2008, Mark Post wrote:
> Just for the sake of completeness, I'm going to document what is needed
> with SLES10 SP1 and SP2 (not sure about GA) to get this to work. Thanks to
> Martin Schwidefsky for helping me to figure it out while at SHARE. Thanks
> even more for Martin not getting ticked off when I told him that 3270
> support stank after not figuring it out on my own. :)
>
> In /etc/inittab, make this change:
> # Default HMC/3215/3270 console:
> -1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear /dev/ttyS0 dumb
> +1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear /dev/tty0.0.01c0 dumb
>
> Where 0.0.01c0 is the device number of my virtual console. Substitute your
> own console address.
>
> In /etc/securetty, add:
> tty0.0.01c0
>
> and substitute your own console address for 0.0.01c0
>
> Shutdown your system. When it enters a disabled wait:
> term conmode 3270
>
> IPL ipldeviceno
Well, I don't understand how this is supposed to work. I usually use my Gentoo
system for experiments but I IPLed a SLES-10 SP1 system and there is no (in
my case) device "/dev/tty0.0.001f". I updated /etc/inittab as recommended and
added "conmode=3270" to the parameter statement in /etc/zipl.conf since I am
IPLing directly without VM. I was not very surprised to see:
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
In fact the SLES system does not have 3270 devices:
zlinux:~ # ll /sys/bus/ccw/drivers/3270
/bin/ls: /sys/bus/ccw/drivers/3270: No such file or directory
So I am still confused.
-Robin
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