[OpenBIOS] [commit] r793 - in trunk/openbios-devel/fs: hfs hfsplus

[Alexander Graf]

Am 15.06.2010 um 19:01 schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk 
 >:

> Blue Swirl wrote:
>
>> It looks like PPC is broken:
>> qemu-system-ppc -boot d -m 128 -cdrom  openSUSE-11.1-NET-ppc.iso - 
>> L . -nographic
>> qemu: warning: could not load VGA bios 'video.x'
>> Could not open option rom 'pxe-ne2k_pci.bin': No such file or  
>> directory
>>>> =============================================================
>>>> OpenBIOS 1.0 [Jun 10 2010 20:15]
>>>> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2
>>>> CPUs: 1
>>>> Memory: 128M
>>>> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>>>> CPU type PowerPC,750
>> Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Jun 10 2010 20:15
>> Unable to open path ,\suseboot\yaboot
>> No valid state has been set by load or init-program
>> No valid state has been set by load or init-program
>> No valid state has been set by load or init-program
>> No valid state has been set by load or init-program
>> No valid state has been set by load or init-program
>>>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
>> No valid state has been set by load or init-program
>>>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
>> 0 > QEMU 0.12.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
>> (qemu) q
>
> Okay. I've fixed a couple of bugs related to this (and OpenSUSE  
> works, although still suffers from the initial incorrect argument  
> parsing) but now I find that my old Fedora iso fails to boot.
>
> It seems as if Fedora expects the CDROM HFS filesystem to be  
> partition 0, whereas OpenSUSE wants it to be partition 1. In  
> packages/mac-parts.c I can see that there is an Apple_partition_map  
> slice of the disk occupying slice 0 of the volume - can anyone with  
> a PPC Mac confirm whether or not this is or is not included in the  
> OpenBoot partition numbering?

If you could be slightly more precise on what exactly I'd type in, I  
can certainly give it a try on my iBook. Also, please give me exact  
links to the isos you're referring to (preferrably netinstall) so  
we're on the same page.

Alex

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