Re: [Qemu-ppc] Booting FreeBSD PowerPC64 on qemu-system-ppc

[Super Bisquit]

I was not aware of the limitation of the emulated machine.  Trying
different machine and CPU configurations along with different roms
were trial and error exercises. The attempts were to boot the iso
through the command line.



On 3/13/12, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:20:09AM -0400, Super Bisquit wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Am 13.03.2012 um 02:26 schrieb Super Bisquit <address@hidden>:
>> >
>> > > Qemu-0.15.1 on an iMac G4 running Debian Squeeze. I've tried with both
>> > > openbios-ppc and ppc_rom.bin using qemu-system-ppc64 and
>> > > qemu-system-ppc.
>> > > Images used were Fedora 16 ppc dvd, FreeBSD ppc64 boot only, and
>> > > OpenBSD macppc 5.0.
>> > > Yaboot would not load the system. OpenBSD stalled with the same error
>> > > message as earlier. FreeBSD also had previous error messages.
>> > >
>> > > By the way, where are the older openbios images?
>> >
>> > Please see the mailing list archives for specific version information.
>> > You
>> > might want to just try whatever came with 0.14. Or try 1.0 ;).
>> >
>> > Also, please dom't top post. It makes the conversation unreadable and is
>> > considered very rude in most open souce projects - including QEMU.
>> >
>> >
>> > Alex
>>
>> The  new qemu wiki does not have a page to access the rom images. I built
>> a
>> openbios-unix (for ppc) rom and it did not work. This was done on the imac
>> G4 with debian.
>> Also, changing the version numbers and entering on the url did not work.
>>
>> $ qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu 970 -hda *img -cdrom *iso -display sdl -boot d
>> Co-routine is yielding to no one
>> Abort trap (core dumped
>>
>> This message is from qemu on FreeBSD Quicksilver G4.
>>
>> Also, other ppc roms such as the 405 are not in the package by default.
>>
>> $ qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER7 -hda *img -cdrom *iso -display sdl -boot d
>> -M taihu
>
> Um, not related to the problem you're seeing, but selecting cpu POWER7
> on a taihu doesn't make much sense.
>
>
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