[coreboot] Fwd: emulating coreboot with qemu

Marc Jones marcj303 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 16:59:41 CET 2011


On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:26 AM, pronoyc at gmail.com <pronoyc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello, I am new to coreboot and I've been using this tutorial as guidance:
> http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU_Build_Tutorial
> I've had help from the IRC channel as well and I think it will be a good
> idea to get help here as well:
> here's the log of what I've done:
> 1. downloaded qemu coreboot filo libpayload
> 2. Built qemu
> 3. built libpayload > error in make menuconfig (this was definitely an
> ncurses.h error so the terminal graphics were the problem)
> 4. built libpayload using make config and then make (built config from tty
> and finally it built)
> 5. Built filo, since filo depends upon libpayload so the make menuconfig did
> not work here as well, so did make config and after iterations with block
> devices built it.
> 6. Built coreboot, here however make menuconfig works and after choosing the
> appropriate options > make generated a coreboot.rom
> 7. Created a ext3 disk.img 200MB with debian squeeze rootfs using
> debootstrap (on Ubuntu though) according to tutorial
> 8. checked where qemu keeps its $BIOS.BIN found it on /usr/local/share/qemu/
> so used the appropriate command : qemu -L /usr/local/share/qemu/ -hda
> ~/disk.img
> 9. the output of the above command without --nographic gives me simply "VNC
> server running on localhost:5900" which is, well, pointless, this proves the
> disk.img isn't working because once you simply execute qemu on the terminal
> it gives you VNC server running on localhost:5900
> I have a detail log of all of the things I did. So the question is does the
> coreboot.rom path get updated to qemu's $BIOS.BIN or do I have to point it
> out explicitly (if it's generated elsewhere)
> and what would the next step be to emulate it ? Or is there anything that
> I've been doing wrong. Please don't spare my feelings and let me know what
> it is. Thanks.
> Pronoy Chopra
> (DarkSector on IRC)

Hi Pronoy,

That is a good first day with coreboot. :)

I have not used QEMU myself, but fthe wiki shows that you need to copy
the coreboot.rom to bios.bin in the qemu directory. You also need to
edit the drive image to have the grub menu.lst that filo expects to
find. I think that the location is important.

http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU#coreboot_v3_.2B_FILO


Marc

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