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Bug#396412: installation-reports: Installation report on AS/400 / iSeries / System i / i5



On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 07:23:22AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> Hmm. Nice to see a report for this. I didn't even know we supported AS/400 
> boxes :-)

Neither I did, but it was worth a try. :-)
 
> The installer uses UTF-8 encoding. You may get a better display if you're 
> able to configure the remote console to use that.

Oups. I'll try that out.
 
> This probably could be made to work by using a separate /boot partition.

Doesn't place yaboot its config in /etc? Anyways, a warning like "yaboot
may be unable to read its configuration file" or something would have
been nice.

> I'm not quite sure how the kernel selection for powerpc works, but we 
> should be able to fix this.
> Could you send us the output of 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'?

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
cpu             : POWER5+ (gs)
clock           : 2197.800000MHz
revision        : 2.1 (pvr 003b 0201)

processor       : 1
cpu             : POWER5+ (gs)
clock           : 2197.800000MHz
revision        : 2.1 (pvr 003b 0201)

timebase        : 275060000
machine         : CHRP IBM,9406-570
#

> > After rebooting, yaboot loaded the Elf64 kernel and all services
> > started. However, a getty did not start on /dev/console (what made me a
> > bit nervous first). I don't know if this is considered a bug or not...
> 
> What did you change in /etc/inittab to fix this.

just started a getty on /dev/console by putting this into the inittab:
0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 console

> If you used a serial console, what is its name? Is it /dev/ttyS? or 
> something fancy?

I really have no idea. I have found out two ways to get a console:
a) via "Open a terminal window" in the partitions's context menu in
   the HMC or
b) connecting via telnet to the i5/OS partition and selecting a "remote
   panel" for the guest partition.

I don't know what type of console are either of them. Maybe this is some
kind of serial console (I have configured virtual serial adapters from
the linux to the i5/OS partition).

I will investigate on that console thing further next week.


Greetings,
 Sebastian
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