Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting Fedora in qemu-system-ppc

[Fabrice Bellard]

Note that there seem to be a regression in the PPC target in the 0.9.0 
version (it no longer boots a Mandrake Linux CD I was using as 
regression test). I did not try yet to find the related commits.

Regards,

Fabrice.

David Woodhouse wrote:
> When booting the Fedora install CD, we seem to fall over on the ofboot.b
> script which decides whether to use the 32-bit or 64-bit kernel.
> http://people.redhat.com/jkeating/qemu-ppc.png
>
> Attempting to boot yaboot instead (with -kernel /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot)
> doesn't seem much happier -- instead it says:
>
>         OF_property_copy cannot get property for 'alias' for <null>
>         No name in node!
>
> Attempting to boot either the 'vmlinux' or the zImage kernel+initrd in
> images/netboot/ppc32.img also fails similarly. 
>
> Are there any special tricks to getting anything to boot in
> qemu-system-ppc?
>
> Now that OpenFirmware is GPL'd, is it worth porting it?