PPC Fedora [was Re: [Qemu-devel] PPC Haiku]

[Laurent Vivier]

Le 18 févr. 09 à 11:08, Julian Seward a écrit :

> Ah nice, but it's not in qemu svn yet is it ? ;)
> > > > No, because the previous one (r450) is 9 days old and still nobody
> > > > has
> > > > reported any bugs with it, so it must be perfect and there is no  
> > > > need
> > > > to update the image. ;-)
> > >
> > > Can that one boot opensuse cds already? If not, feel free to take
> > > this as a bug report :)
> >
> > openSUSE is booting well since openBIOS r448.
>
> Almost but not completely perfect ;-)
>
> Yes, openSUSE 11.1 boots ok.  No success with Fedora-11-Alpha, though:
>
>  cd:0,\ppc\chrp\yaboot.conf: Unknown or corrupt filesystem
>  Can't open config file
>
> I still get a boot: prompt, but there are no images to boot.  Same  
> problem
> occurs with F10.  Is there any workaround?
>
> This is with the image
>
> http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora/linux/releases/test/11-Alpha/Fedora/ppc/iso/Fedora-11-Alpha-ppc-netinst.iso

Fedora-10 boot CD is now working with openBIOS r456.

To boot, use following command:

boot cd: conf=cd:,\ppc\ppc32\yaboot.conf

Fedora-11 is also working, but kernel hangs somewhere...

Regards,
Laurent