The following patch does wonders, it changes the ppc config to match sparc64 wrt ISO9660:
diff --git a/config/examples/cross-ppc_config.xml b/config/examples/ cross-ppc_config.xml index d658ac4..c180509 100644 --- a/config/examples/cross-ppc_config.xml +++ b/config/examples/cross-ppc_config.xml @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ <option name="CONFIG_PC_PARTS" type="boolean" value="true"/> <option name="CONFIG_HFS" type="boolean" value="true"/> <option name="CONFIG_HFSP" type="boolean" value="true"/> - <option name="CONFIG_ISO9660" type="boolean" value="true"/> + <option name="CONFIG_ISO9660" type="boolean" value="false"/> <option name="CONFIG_EXT2" type="boolean" value="true"/> <option name="CONFIG_GRUBFS" type="boolean" value="true"/> <option name="CONFIG_FSYS_EXT2FS" type="boolean" value="false"/> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ <option name="CONFIG_FSYS_REISERFS" type="boolean" value="false"/> <option name="CONFIG_FSYS_XFS" type="boolean" value="false"/> <option name="CONFIG_FSYS_UFS" type="boolean" value="false"/> - <option name="CONFIG_FSYS_ISO9660" type="boolean" value="false"/> + <option name="CONFIG_FSYS_ISO9660" type="boolean" value="true"/> <option name="CONFIG_FSYS_FFS" type="boolean" value="false"/> <option name="CONFIG_FSYS_VSTAFS" type="boolean" value="false"/> <option name="CONFIG_FSYS_NTFS" type="boolean" value="false"/>
$ qemu-system-ppc64 -boot d -cdrom path/to/6.1.0-dvd.iso -nographic
C>> annot manage 'OHCI USB controller' PCI device type 'usb':
106b 3f (c 3 10)
============================================================= OpenBIOS 1.0 [Sep 25 2010 23:55] Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 3 CPUs: 1 Memory: 128M UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 CPU type PowerPC,970FX
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Sep 25 2010 23:55 Trying cd:,\:tbxi... File not found Trying cd:,\ppc\bootinfo.txt...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to AIX. boot image timestamp: 01:75 2B/75 NULL ihandle The current time and date: 00:00:00 156828/00/0008 processor count: 0; memory size: 128MB; kernel size: 8391752 boot device: cd:\ppc\chrp\bootfile.exe NULL phandle Unexpected client interface exception: -1 NULL phandle Unexpected client interface exception: -1
ERROR: This system is incompatible with the 64 bit kernel.
EXIT 0 >
`dir cd:,\ppc\chrp` is unsupported in that configuration though.
Andreas