[OpenBIOS] [commit] r847 - trunk/openbios-devel/libopenbios

[Nick Couchman]

64-bit trying to boot Solaris 9 fails like so:

OpenBIOS for Sparc64
Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 0
kernel cmdline 
CPUs: 1 x SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi
UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Aug 11 2010 04:15
  Type 'help' for detailed information

Trying cdrom:f...
Not a Linux kernel image
Not a bootable ELF image
Not a bootable a.out image

Loading FCode image...
Loaded 5936 bytes
entry point is 0x4000
open isn't unique.

byte-load: exception caught!

Jumping to entry point 0000000000004000 for type 0000000000000010...
Evaluating FCode...
open isn't unique.

byte-load: exception caught!
Image returned with return value 0x0


and Solaris 10 and higher:
OpenBIOS for Sparc64
Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 0
kernel cmdline 
CPUs: 1 x SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi
UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Aug 11 2010 04:15
  Type 'help' for detailed information

Trying cdrom:f...
Not a Linux kernel image
Not a bootable ELF image
Not a bootable a.out image

Loading FCode image...
Loaded 7420 bytes
entry point is 0x4000
ofmem_claim_phys - out of space (failed request for 000000000b5a4000 bytes)
Unhandled Exception 0x0000000000000032
PC = 0x00000000ffd1c8a4 NPC = 0x00000000ffd1c88c
Stopping execution

-Nick

>>> On 2010/08/10 at 02:57, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk>
wrote:
> Nick Couchman wrote:
> 
>> After these latest changes, I get the following trying to boot Solaris 9:
>> 
>> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 32
>> CPUs: 1 x FMI,MB86904
>> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>> Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Aug 9 2010 23:27
>>   Type 'help' for detailed information
>> 
>> Trying cdrom:d...
>> Not a bootable ELF image
>> Loading a.out image...
>> Loaded 7680 bytes
>> entry point is 0x4000
>> bootpath: /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd at 2,0:d
>> 
>> Jumping to entry point 00004000 for type 00000005...
>> switching to new context:
>> bootblk: can't find the boot program
>> halt, power off
>> 
>> My boot command line looks like this:
>> ./sparc-softmmu/qemu-system-sparc -hda disk0.img -cdrom 
> /media/Sun-ISOs-2/solaris-9/software1.iso -bios 
> ../openbios-devel/obj-sparc32/openbios-builtin.elf.nostrip -nographic -boot d
>> 
>> -Nick
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> I don't think I've ever tested Solaris with OpenBIOS SPARC32 (although I 
> have been told we may have some Solaris 8 CDs lying around somewhere if 
> they would do the job?). Is this just an update, or are you reporting a 
> regression? If it's a regression, can you do an SVN bisect?
> 
> 
> ATB,
> 
> M-D.



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