[OpenBIOS] Getting Closer With Booting AIX? I Would Like to Help Please.
Andreas Färber
andreas.faerber at web.de
Sun May 22 20:56:53 CEST 2011
Am 22.05.2011 um 19:37 schrieb Andreas Färber:
> 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.
Hmm, on my OSX/ppc64 system it's being triggered starting with -m 260
(-m 259 last working). Don't have enough memory to cross-check on armel.
Andreas
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