Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc and Solaris 1.1.2 / SunOS 4.1.4

[Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net>]

Jan Holzhueter wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> we are planing to get rid of some old sparc hardware.
> The problem is that there are applications on it that require
> sun4m and Solaris 1.1.2 / SunOS 4.1.4.
> As known qemu-system-sparc is not able to boot the Solaris Kernel at
> the moment.
>
> I get as far as:
>   [sparc] Booting file 'cdrom' with parameters ''
> Not a bootable ELF image
> Not a Linux kernel image
> Not a bootable a.out image
> Not a bootable ELF image
> Not a Linux kernel image
> Loading a.out image...
> Loaded 7680 bytes
> entry point is 0x4000
> Jumping to entry point...
> checksum 60746d10 != 86693bac, trying to boot anyway
> Unhandled Exception 0x00000007
> PC = 0x002002bc NPC = 0x002002c0
> Stopping execution
>
> My question is how far away are you form getting it to work
> and in what time frame could it be done?
>
> This is a bigger project for us. So it might even be possible
> ( nothing confirmed yet I have to check back with some people  )
> to donate some money to get it to work.
> It doesn't need to work for all Solaris. We just need Solaris 1.1.2.
> If someone needs some installation Medium or feedback let me know.
>
> Greetings
> Jan Holzhüter
>
>
This may be an openbios issue.  Changing openbios boot.c cdrom
oldpath to sd(0,2,0):d gets past this error but it still doesn't boot.