[Qemu-devel] boot an open firmware elf binary

[Qemu-devel] boot an open firmware elf binary

[antoine terrienne]

Hello,

I know it is not the ideal place to ask this question but the qemu 
forum is down and the qemu-user mailing list just send me  550 unknown 
user errors.

I have a powerpc-elf binary that is supposed to be open firmware
bootable. But I found no indications about how to boot it with
qemu-system-ppc. The -kernel option doen't work. I try with using the
file as a drive (hda) but still no result. I began to investigate and
try to buid a disk image, partitionning and setting it bootable with
pdisk but I still miss the tools to format the filesystem and copy the
binary into it.
I try to find some info on the web but I only found info for bootable
CD-Roms for particular systems and I'm a littre bit lost.
Do someone know a way to simply boot the elf ou simply build a bootable
disk image ?
I use Mac OS X not Linux.

by the way the qemu compiled from the CVS with the cocoa interface
seems to ignore the options given in the command line

thank's for your help

Re: [Qemu-devel] boot an open firmware elf binary

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

The forum is up now :)

Thanks,
Hetz

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:34:03 +0100, antoine terrienne
<antoine.terrienne@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I know it is not the ideal place to ask this question but the qemu
> forum is down and the qemu-user mailing list just send me  550 unknown
> user errors.
> 
> I have a powerpc-elf binary that is supposed to be open firmware
> bootable. But I found no indications about how to boot it with
> qemu-system-ppc. The -kernel option doen't work. I try with using the
> file as a drive (hda) but still no result. I began to investigate and
> try to buid a disk image, partitionning and setting it bootable with
> pdisk but I still miss the tools to format the filesystem and copy the
> binary into it.
> I try to find some info on the web but I only found info for bootable
> CD-Roms for particular systems and I'm a littre bit lost.
> Do someone know a way to simply boot the elf ou simply build a bootable
> disk image ?
> I use Mac OS X not Linux.
> 
> by the way the qemu compiled from the CVS with the cocoa interface
> seems to ignore the options given in the command line
> 
> thank's for your help
> 
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Re: [Qemu-devel] boot an open firmware elf binary

[J. Mayer]

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 13:34 +0100, antoine terrienne wrote:
> Hello,

Hi,

> I know it is not the ideal place to ask this question but the qemu 
> forum is down and the qemu-user mailing list just send me  550 unknown 
> user errors.
> 
> I have a powerpc-elf binary that is supposed to be open firmware
> bootable. But I found no indications about how to boot it with
> qemu-system-ppc. The -kernel option doen't work.

I have to admit I never tried -kernel option, but to boot PREP kernels.
Then, it seems broken for PowerMac emulation.

I wont fix it in 0.4 release, but I'll work on this point for the next
one.

[...]
> I use Mac OS X not Linux.

I can't promise OHW/qemu-PPC work well under Mac OS, I test only with
Linux.

[...]

-- 
J. Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
Never organized

Re: [Qemu-devel] boot an open firmware elf binary

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

On 24 mars 05, at 13:34, antoine terrienne wrote:

>
> by the way the qemu compiled from the CVS with the cocoa interface
> seems to ignore the options given in the command line
>

If you really want to use the cocoa driver (no mouse support, partial 
keyboard), you may want these patch:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-03/msg00055.html

Pierre.