On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 12:42:34PM -0500, dave oswald wrote: [...] > 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 [...] > QUESTION - I assume this is some type of bug... Where can this be posted ? debian-boot@lists.debian.org -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> Q. What is that strange attachment in this mail? A. My digital signature, see www.gnupg.org for info on how you could use it to ensure that this mail is from me and has not been altered on the way to you.
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