No. A "console" in UNIX speech is just a terminal, save for that it is attached directly (no network in between) to the system. One common security feature is to allow root to directly login only through the console, so that logging in directly as root needs a physical access to the system in question. So, the console is like the "main" terminal, but in every other regard it is just like any other terminal.

Well, look here:



The graphics adapters that were there once are simply not there any more. Either they are both broken and the system cannot configure them even so much that they are recognized (one might have become dysfunctional that way but two at the same time is improbable) or they have been removed from the system. Delete these devices (rmdev) and run cfgmgr and i suppose they will not resurface. "Defined" means the defiitions for the adapter are still in the ODM but the device isn't there any more. It it would be then it would be "available".

This seems to be a rather old hardware (i remember having two GXT135P adapters in a R/6000 Model 43P-140), so it should have a serial connector. Attach a serial console to it and start with that. Note that at some point (i don't remember exactly when) the serial characteristics went from 9600, 8,1,N to 19200, 8,1,N, so if you have no luck with 9600 baud try 19200.

I hope this helps.

bakunin