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

[Andrew Warkentin <andreww@datanet.ab.ca>]

Robert Reif wrote:

> 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.
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SunOS might run in TME (http://people.csail.mit.edu/fredette/tme/). I 
don't think anything other than Linux runs in QEMU's Sun emulation (or 
for that matter, any of the non-PC QEMU emulators).