[OpenBIOS] Solaris anyone?

Artyom Tarasenko atar4qemu at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 12:13:30 CEST 2011


On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> On 26/04/11 10:30, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>
>> I suspect that it's a qemu esp bug. Either Solaris recognizes a wrong
>> esp chipset version or qemu esp doesn't implement some necessary
>> features the of the esp version it claims to be. In the later case we
>> should fix qemu, not OpenBIOS.
>> If you can find out what Solaris is expecting I would try to implement
>> it in esp.
>
> Ah okay. What does that change to scsi_options actually *do*? I've seen
> reference to it in your HOWTO, but I don't see any explanation as to why it
> is needed and/or what symptoms you were seeing and how you determined this
> was the correct workaround?

That was easy: booting in a single user mode from an install CD
worked, booting from a HDD image didn't.
I looked at the installer /etc/system and took the options from there. :-)

-- 
Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/



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