Re: [OpenBIOS] operating systems that I'm able and not able to run on QEMU PPC

[Massimo Montecchi]

Sorry to make, maybe, some confusions in the previous posts.
I try now to make clear situation about my test data.

*QEMU last trunk (0.13.50) + openbios last trunk (the details are in the
first post of this thread):*
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- DEBIAN 5.0.5 PPC it works
- OPENSUSE 11.1 PPC it works

- FreeBSD 8.1 PPC => hangs at "Kernel entry at 0x100100 ..."
- NETBSD 5.0.2 (netbsd-ofppccd-5.0.2.iso) PPC => hangs in the OpenBios
console wuith message "Trying cd:,\:tbxi..."
- NETBSD 5.0.2 (netbsd-prepcd-5.0.2.iso) PPC => waiting in the OpenBios
console after message "No valid state has been set by load or init-program"
- SLES 11 SP1 PPC => waiting in the OpenBios console after message "No valid
state has been set by load or init-program"
- AIX 4.3.3 PPC, AIX 5.1 PPC, AIX 6.1 PPC => hangs in the OpenBios console
wuith message "Trying cd:,\:tbxi..."
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*QEMU last trunk (0.13.50) + openbios r827 (the details are in the attach
file):*
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- DEBIAN 5.0.5 PPC it works
- OPENSUSE 11.1 PPC it works

- FreeBSD 8.1 PPC hangs at "Kernel entry at 0x100100 ..."
- NETBSD 5.0.2 (netbsd-ofppccd-5.0.2.iso) PPC => hangs after "Welcome to
OpenBIOS" message
- NETBSD 5.0.2 (netbsd-prepcd-5.0.2.iso) PPC => waiting in the OpenBios
console after error ">> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified
***"
- SLES 11 SP1 PPC => hangs after "Welcome to OpenBIOS" message with the
message "No valid state has been set by load or init-program"
- AIX 4.3.3 PPC, AIX 5.1 PPC, AIX 6.1 PPC => hangs after "Welcome to
OpenBIOS" message
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*QEMU last trunk (0.13.50) + openbios 1.0 Dec 2009 (the details are in the
attach file):*
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- OPENSUSE 11.1 PPC it works

- Debian 5.0.5 PPC => hangs after "Welcome to OpenBIOS" message
- FreeBSD 8.1 PPC => hangs after "Welcome to OpenBIOS" message
- NETBSD 5.0.2 (netbsd-ofppccd-5.0.2.iso) PPC =>
waiting in the
 OpenBios console after error ">> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader
specified ***"
- NETBSD 5.0.2 (netbsd-prepcd-5.0.2.iso) PPC =>
waiting in the
 OpenBios console after error ">> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader
specified ***"
- SLES 11 SP1 PPC => hangs after "Welcome to OpenBIOS" message
- AIX 4.3.3 PPC, AIX 5.1 PPC =>
waiting in the
 OpenBios console after errors the "/rtas" device node does not exist
- AIX 6.1 PPC => hangs after "Welcome to OpenBIOS" message

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I hope this info help someone to understand the ppc "caos" in openbios code
or qemu code :-)

Ciao

2010/9/14 Mark Cave-Ayland
> Massimo Montecchi wrote:
>
> qemu commands are very simple and basic:
> > qemu-system-ppc -k it -m 1024 -boot d -hda disk.qcow2 -cdrom cdrom.iso
> >
> > or
> >
> > qemu-system-ppc64 -k it -m 1024 -boot d -hda disk.qcow2 -cdrom cdrom.iso
> >
> > This evening I will post the test for OSs with old (r828) revision of
> > openbios inside qemu.
> > Ciao
>
> Great - thanks for helping with this!
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.
>
> Sirius Labs: http://www.siriusit.co.uk/labs