[OpenBIOS] Getting Closer With Booting AIX? I Would Like to Help Please.

Andreas Färber andreas.faerber at web.de
Sun May 22 19:37:06 CEST 2011


Am 25.04.2011 um 19:11 schrieb Andreas Färber:

> Am 25.04.2011 um 07:32 schrieb Kenneth Salerno:
>
>> ====================================================
>> Booting AIX in QEMU+OpenBIOS (CPU type PowerPC,750)
>> ====================================================
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>                                Welcome to AIX.
>>                       boot image timestamp: 00:39 35/2D
>>                 The current time and date: 01:10:58 04/25/2011
>>        processor count: 1;  memory size: 2047MB;  kernel size:  
>> 2293829
>>                    boot device: cd:\ppc\chrp\bootfile.exe
>> [hangs here...]
>
> I had a version of OpenBIOS on which AIX complains about the 750 and  
> drops back to the prompt.

I'm still seeing the previous behavior on armel host, whereas on ppc64  
host using identical OpenBIOS binary and .iso I'm observing the above  
hang... weird. Rules out an endianness issue.

Andreas


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