Re: [Qemu-devel] Boot from disk problem

[Ignacio Geli <igeli@itecnis.com>]

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El 01/12/11 07:29, Artyom Tarasenko escribió:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Blue Swirl<blauwirbel@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 18:24, Ignacio Geli<igeli@itecnis.com>  wrote:
>>> El 25/11/11 13:01, Andreas Färber escribió:
>>>
>>> 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
>> I'm not sure if Artyom has submitted all his patches to QEMU yet.
>
> This stuff is in. Definitely worked at 0.13 - 0.14 times, but I never
> had time to check 0.15+.
>
>>> 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 That 2009 blog is outdated: QEMU now lives in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
>>>
>>> Andesas tks for the info.
>>> upgrading to 0.15.1 did not solve the issue.
>>>
>>> Adding some info:
>>>
>>> QEMU emulator version 0.15.1, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
>>> Linux ws2132 2.6.32-5-openvz-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 3 05:12:50 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>> Debian squeeze
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards!
>>>
>>> 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
>> I'd guess these geometry parameters are not correct for your 12G disk.
>> It's strange though that the installer kernel sees different geometry
>> from the normal boot kernel.
>>
>>> 5) echo
>>> 'partition="QEMU12.0G":disk="QEMU12.0G":ctlr=SCSI:2=0,25165824:0=0,20971520:6=40960,4194304'
>>>
>>> /etc/format.dat
>> These could also be wrong, but I have no idea what the numbers mean.
> In order not to mess with all this numbers I used a pre-defined 1.3G
> disk in the Solaris format utility and created it with dd:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=$1  bs=10k count=133756
>
>
> Otherwise, Ignacio, are you sure that disk0 is your root FS disk and
> not something else? Can you post your qemu command line?
>
qemu-system-sparc -M SS-5 -startdate "2009-12-13" -bios /root/ss5.bin 
-nographic -hda /root/imagenes/solaris.disk -hdb 
/root/solaris_2.5.1_1197.iso

Thks for your help Artyom. I'll try with a dd, and solaris format 
utility and I'll let u know

Ignacio

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