Re: etch hang on ibm JS21 and power 5 505

[Frank Habermann <lordlamer@lordlamer.de>]

Hi,

sorry for late answer. I have tested this last week:
> I think you needs to do something like:
> a) Boot into a rescue environment
>    - I'd do this by adding init=/bin/bash to the commandline in yaboot
> b) remount the / filesystem read/write
>    - mount -o,remounr,rw / # should do it.
> c) change /etc/inittab to run a getty on hvc0
> d) Enable root logins on hvc0 by editing /etc/securetty
> e) finish the boot brocess with  "exec /sbin/init"

This works fine for me. Thanks for your help!

But my question is: Is that a normal procedure after install on such a system?

Frank