[Qemu-devel] Booting AIX / First try w/QEMU

[IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR]

To whom it shall concern,

I have absolutely no time for mailing lists or to spend much time on  
this other than to report the bug, so please understand I am just here  
to report this, and have little time for continued testing of it. I  
leave that to you, the developers.

I ran into two different bugs attempting to try QEMU 0.11, under  
CentOS 5.3 64bit (fully updated), QEMU compiled from source  
flawlessly, while under under VirtualBox on a Lenvo T400 laptop.

My goal was to try to boot an AIX CDROM from QEMU 0.11 (AIX 6.1), I  
never got that far due to these bugs.


Bug #1:

It seems to complain about some 1MB BIOS file being missing or  
dysfunctional, really I did not see any BIOS files that big, so, I  
gave up with this type of boot. Then I tried below, "Bug #2", met with  
more problems, so I gave up entirely as I had no more time to play  
with it.

/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ppc -nographic -hda aix.raw -cdrom  
./Image_091013_1359.iso -M prep
qemu: hardware error: PowerPC 601 / 620 / 970 need a 1MB BIOS

CPU #0:
NIP fff00100   LR 00000000 CTR 00000000 XER 00000000
MSR 00000040 HID0 00000000  HF 00000000 idx 1
TB 00000000 00000000 DECR ffffffff
GPR00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR04 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR08 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR12 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR16 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR20 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR24 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR28 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
CR 00000000  [ -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  ]             RES ffffffff
FPR00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR04 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR08 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR12 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR16 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR20 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR24 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR28 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPSCR 00000000
SRR0 00000000 SRR1 00000000 SDR1 00000000
t: line 5: 11668 Aborted                  
/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ppc -nographic -hda aix.raw -cdrom  
./Image_091013_1359.iso -M prep
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Bug #2: never even tries to boot from CD-ROM and gives some wildly odd  
error and display messages.


/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ppc -nographic -hda aix.raw -cdrom  
./Image_091013_1359.iso -M g3beige

> > =============================================================
> > OpenBIOS 1.0 [Jul 5 2009 17:36]
> > Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2
> > CPUs: 1
> > Memory: 128M
> > UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
> > CPU type PowerPC,750
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Jul 5 2009 17:36

> > *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***

0 > boot cdrom
> > partition 2 does not exist

> > partition 2 does not exist

> > partition 2 does not exist

> > partition 2 does not exist

> > partition 2 does not exist

> > partition 2 does not exist

> > partition 2 does not exist

> > partition 2 does not exist

> > partition 2 does not exist

> > partition 2 does not exist

> > partition 2 does not exist
> > *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
> > *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
> > *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
> > *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
> > *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
> > *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
> > *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
> > *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
> > *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
> > *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
> > *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
 ok
0 >


Good luck,


V/R,

Stuart



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