[Debian-ppc64-devel] help: installing debian in a IBM pSeries power5 ppc64

[Sven Luther]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 11:56:37PM -0300, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> Hi Sven,
> 
> I've installed using a gentoo livecd and using the debian ppc64 chroot
> enviroment downloaded from
> http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/ppc64-chroot.tar.bz2 .

Oh well, i can't help you with this unnofficial stuff.

> after this I've copied to my sda3 and chroot into it ...
> after this I used the apt-get to download the source kernel 2.6.18, I've
> configured and compiled it.
> I've set too the fstab manually and use the yabootconfig command to setup
> the prep partition and point to my kernel.
> 
> After a restart I saw that yaboot was ok and the kernel started to boot
> successfully, but
> after this messages it stoped.
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> Starting system log daemon: syslogd.
> Starting kernel log daemon: klogd.
> Starting MTA: exim4.
> Starting internet superserver: inetd.
> Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd.
> Starting deferred execution scheduler: atdStarting periodic command
> scheduler: cron.
> 
> and staied here forever.
> 
> Do you know what can be wrong ?

You forgot to enable the serial console in /etc/inittab. The installer would
have done this for you.

Friendly,

Sven Luther