[Qemu-devel] Booting Fedora in qemu-system-ppc

[Qemu-devel] Booting Fedora in qemu-system-ppc

[David Woodhouse]

When booting the Fedora install CD, we seem to fall over on the ofboot.b
script which decides whether to use the 32-bit or 64-bit kernel.
http://people.redhat.com/jkeating/qemu-ppc.png

Attempting to boot yaboot instead (with -kernel /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot)
doesn't seem much happier -- instead it says:

	OF_property_copy cannot get property for 'alias' for <null>
	No name in node!

Attempting to boot either the 'vmlinux' or the zImage kernel+initrd in
images/netboot/ppc32.img also fails similarly. 

Are there any special tricks to getting anything to boot in
qemu-system-ppc?

Now that OpenFirmware is GPL'd, is it worth porting it?

-- 
dwmw2

Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting Fedora in qemu-system-ppc

[Fabrice Bellard]

Note that there seem to be a regression in the PPC target in the 0.9.0 
version (it no longer boots a Mandrake Linux CD I was using as 
regression test). I did not try yet to find the related commits.

Regards,

Fabrice.

David Woodhouse wrote:
> When booting the Fedora install CD, we seem to fall over on the ofboot.b
> script which decides whether to use the 32-bit or 64-bit kernel.
> http://people.redhat.com/jkeating/qemu-ppc.png
> 
> Attempting to boot yaboot instead (with -kernel /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot)
> doesn't seem much happier -- instead it says:
> 
> 	OF_property_copy cannot get property for 'alias' for <null>
> 	No name in node!
> 
> Attempting to boot either the 'vmlinux' or the zImage kernel+initrd in
> images/netboot/ppc32.img also fails similarly. 
> 
> Are there any special tricks to getting anything to boot in
> qemu-system-ppc?
> 
> Now that OpenFirmware is GPL'd, is it worth porting it?
> 

Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting Fedora in qemu-system-ppc

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 5:27 am, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Note that there seem to be a regression in the PPC target in the 0.9.0 
> version (it no longer boots a Mandrake Linux CD I was using as 
> regression test). I did not try yet to find the related commits.

I can't get the kubuntu-6.10 PPC install CD to boot with 0.9.0 either: yaboot 
loads off the cd, I hit enter, lots of error messages scroll by, and it 
grinds to a halt.

Is there more to it than just:
  qemu-system-ppc -cdrom kubuntu-6.10-desktop-powerpc.iso

That's all I need for qemu-system-i386 and qemu-system-x86_64...

Rob
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