From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MxzHF-0003Jw-2u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:32:09 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MxzHA-0003Fe-5b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:32:08 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42209 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxzH9-0003FZ-Oh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:32:03 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:49443) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MxzH9-00035T-5r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:32:03 -0400 Message-Id: <33118209.3680361255509118605.JavaMail.servlet@kundenserver> From: Laurent Vivier Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] Booting AIX / First try w/QEMU MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:31:58 +0200 List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, teners@bh90210.net Cc: hollis@penguinppc.org >To whom it shall concern, > >I have absolutely no time for mailing lists or to spend much time on =20 >this other than to report the bug, so please understand I am just here =20 >to report this, and have little time for continued testing of it. I =20 >leave that to you, the developers. > >I ran into two different bugs attempting to try QEMU 0.11, under =20 >CentOS 5.3 64bit (fully updated), QEMU compiled from source =20 >flawlessly, while under under VirtualBox on a Lenvo T400 laptop. > >My goal was to try to boot an AIX CDROM from QEMU 0.11 (AIX 6.1), I =20 >never got that far due to these bugs. > > >Bug #1: > >It seems to complain about some 1MB BIOS file being missing or =20 >dysfunctional, really I did not see any BIOS files that big, so, I =20 >gave up with this type of boot. Then I tried below, "Bug #2", met with =20 >more problems, so I gave up entirely as I had no more time to play =20 >with it. > >/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ppc -nographic -hda aix.raw -cdrom =20 >./Image_091013_1359.iso -M prep >qemu: hardware error: PowerPC 601 / 620 / 970 need a 1MB BIOS > >CPU #0: >NIP fff00100 LR 00000000 CTR 00000000 XER 00000000 >MSR 00000040 HID0 00000000 HF 00000000 idx 1 >TB 00000000 00000000 DECR ffffffff >GPR00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >GPR04 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >GPR08 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >GPR12 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >GPR16 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >GPR20 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >GPR24 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >GPR28 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >CR 00000000 [ - - - - - - - - ] RES ffffffff >FPR00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >FPR04 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >FPR08 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >FPR12 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >FPR16 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >FPR20 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >FPR24 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >FPR28 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 >FPSCR 00000000 >SRR0 00000000 SRR1 00000000 SDR1 00000000 >t: line 5: 11668 Aborted =20 >/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ppc -nographic -hda aix.raw -cdrom =20 >./Image_091013_1359.iso -M prep >[root@localhost qemu]# To boot AIX6.1, you must emulate a CHRP with at least a POWER4. Moreover, AIX6.1 needs the hypervisor support in OpenFirmware (which is not= the case of OpenBIOS). > >Bug #2: never even tries to boot from CD-ROM and gives some wildly odd =20 >error and display messages. > > >/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ppc -nographic -hda aix.raw -cdrom =20 >./Image_091013_1359.iso -M g3beige > >>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >>> OpenBIOS 1.0 [Jul 5 2009 17:36] >>> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2 >>> CPUs: 1 >>> Memory: 128M >>> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 >>> CPU type PowerPC,750 >Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Jul 5 2009 17:36 > >>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified *** > >0 > boot cdrom >>> partition 2 does not exist > >>> partition 2 does not exist > >>> partition 2 does not exist > >>> partition 2 does not exist > >>> partition 2 does not exist > >>> partition 2 does not exist > >>> partition 2 does not exist > >>> partition 2 does not exist > >>> partition 2 does not exist > >>> partition 2 does not exist > >>> partition 2 does not exist This should be corrected in OpenBIOS HEAD SVN repository. >>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified *** >>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified *** >>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified *** >>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified *** >>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified *** >>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified *** >>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified *** >>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified *** >>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified *** >>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified *** >>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified *** > ok Regards, Laurent --=20 --------------------- Laurent@vivier.eu --------------------- "Tout ce qui est impossible reste =C3=A0 accomplir" Jules Verne "Things are only impossible until they're not" Jean-Luc Picard