Re: [Qemu-devel] Boot from disk problem

["Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>]

Hi,

Am 25.11.2011 16:23, schrieb Ignacio Geli:
> Im trying to run a solaris 2.5.1 vm acording the instructions of i found
> in this blog:
> http://tyom.blogspot.com/2009/12/solaris-under-qemu-how-to.html#uds-search-results
> 
> compile my qemu with:
> git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu.git
> cd qemu
> ./configure --target-list=sparc-softmmu
> make
> (version 0.13.50)

That 2009 blog is outdated: QEMU now lives in
git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git
and should be at 0.15.93 (1.0-rc3). Compare http://qemu.org for details.

CC'ed sparc maintainer and Artyom.

Andreas

> 
> Ive downloaded the ss5.bin bios (sparc station 5)) I have the solaris
> disk and i can do the installation but can't get the disk to boot.
> 
> I can boot from the cd, mount and check the /etc/system file it has the
> "set scsi_options=0x58" option i set to make it work, still not working:
> 
> Here is the output:
> 
> /ok boot disk0:d
> Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@0,0:d  File
> and args:
> SunOS Release 5.5.1 Version Generic [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
> Copyright (c) 1983-1996, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> WARNING:
> /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@1,0
> (sd1):
>     corrupt label - bad geometry
> 
>     Label says 1310720 blocks, Drive says 883120 blocks
> Cannot mount root on
> /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@0,0:d fstype
> ufs
> panic: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
> rebooting...
> Resetting ... /
> 
> maybe the disk is wrong
> ive try several disk one following these instructions:
> 1) qemu-img create -f qcow2 file.qcow2 12G
> 2) Add -drive file=file.qcow2,unit=3 to your qemu startup
> 3) Boot single user
> 4) echo
> 'disk_type="QEMU12.0G":ctlr=SCSI:ncyl=49152:acyl=0:pcyl=49152:nhead=16:nsect=32:rpm=7200'
>>> /etc/format.dat
> 5) echo
> 'partition="QEMU12.0G":disk="QEMU12.0G":ctlr=SCSI:2=0,25165824:0=0,20971520:6=40960,4194304'
>>> /etc/format.dat
> 6) format -d c0t3d0 -t 'QEMU12.0G' then label, y, and quit
> 7) newfs /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 followed by y
> 
> another downloaded from:
> http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Solaris_2.4_on_Qemu_SPARC
> 
> any help will be welcome
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
>         Ignacio Geli
>         Implementación y Soporte


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