The following has be reported by IBM LTC: HMC VT220 ASCII terminal session not working Hardware Environment: z/900 Software Environment: RHEL-3 UPDATE 1 Steps to Reproduce: 1) Add the console statment to zipl.conf on the parm line parameters="root=LABEL=/1 console=ttyS1 console=ttyS0" 2)Add the following to inittab 0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty ttyS0 --noclear 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty ttyS1 --noclear 3)Run zipl and re-ipl system with ASCII console open Actual Results: Noting appears on the ASCII console, but do get the following message on the HMC operator line console. INIT: id "0" responding to fast: disable for 5 minutes INIT: id "1" responding to fast: disable for 5 minutes Expected Results: Linux console would apear on HMC ASCII console. Additional Information:
mingetty cannot be used together with a serial console. greetings, Florian La Roche
Closing as NOTABUG, as per Comment #1