[OpenBIOS] PReP PowerPC "emulation"

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk
Tue Sep 14 17:17:42 CEST 2010


Massimo Montecchi wrote:

> I know the -prom-env 'auto-boot?=false', but from the openbios "console" 
> I was not able to run nothing (if you can help me, please!!!)
> AFAIK the AIX bootloader is an ELF executable (see 
> here http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-spec12/ )
> 
> Ciao

Is the ELF executable on the CD? You can navigate around the CD using 
the dir command, e.g.

dir cd:,\
dir cd:,\ppc

etc. etc.

Then once you find the ELF executable, try and load it with:

load cd:,\ppc\path\to\file.elf
go


HTH,

Mark.

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