Re: [OpenBIOS] QEMU OpenBIOS booting?

[Steven Noonan]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Laurent Vivier  wrote:
> Le dimanche 19 avril 2009 à 11:59 -0700, Steven Noonan a écrit :
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Laurent Vivier  wrote:
> > > Le dimanche 19 avril 2009 à 00:50 -0700, Steven Noonan a écrit :
> > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Steven Noonan  wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Laurent Vivier  wrote:
> > > > > > OpenBIOS is not able to boot MacOS X.
> > > > >
> > > > > Well, that's a silly limitation. Is there a reason this isn't
> > > > > implemented? I see that the Mac-on-Linux OpenBIOS version has such
> > > > > support, so it seems strange that the QEMU version does not.
> > > >
> > > > I don't know if anyone here is actually interested (this list seems
> > > > -very- quiet), but...
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > > I've been hacking at OpenBIOS for a bit, and I got it to properly read
> > > > Mac OS X discs (it kept failing because it would hit an Apple
> > > > Partition Map header instead of an HFS+ filesystem header). I'm
> > > > working on adding an XCOFF loader, too, so it should be able to boot
> > > > Mac OS X soon.
> > >
> > > You can copy it from OpenHackWare.
> > > I made some tests and it seems to have some memory conflicts between
> > > MacOS kernel and OpenBIOS.
>
> In fact what I have is a Mach-O loader which load mach_kernel from "/".
> > > Good Luck.
> >
> > Two more pre-XCOFF loader commits up:
> > http://github.com/tycho/openbios/commit/e43daa3447b5ce4a2b05b2f32882e4989115...
> > http://github.com/tycho/openbios/commit/7023b78a10f5632fd08d4749615efd3e73ab...
>
> Seems good but do you really need to check for embedded XCOFF in this
> patch and are you really able to execute the boot-script ?

Oh, I should say that it does _execute_ the boot-script, but I don't
know if it's properly handled by the Forth interpreter. Any idea what
the boot-script you cite is supposed to actually _do_ (I gave up
trying to read Forth at around 3 AM last night)?
> In Panther Install CD, BootX is:
>
> <CHRP-BOOT>
> <COMPATIBLE>
> MacRISC MacRISC3 MacRISC4
> </COMPATIBLE>
> <DESCRIPTION>
> Boot Loader for Mac OS X.
> </DESCRIPTION>
> <OS-BADGE-ICONS>
> </OS-BADGE-ICONS>
> <BOOT-SCRIPT>
> ...
> <BOOT-SCRIPT>
> load-base
> begin
>  dup 6 " &lt;/CHRP" $= if
>  6 + dup 6 " -BOOT&gt;" $= if
>   8 + true
>  else
>   false
>  then
>  else
>  1+ false
>  then
> until
> ( xcoff-base )
> load-size over load-base - -
> ( xcoff-base xcoff-size )
> load-base swap move
> init-program go
> </BOOT-SCRIPT>
> </CHRP-BOOT>
> [...XCOFF HERE]
>
> Regards,
> Laurent