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

[Natalia Portillo]

Hi,

El 14/10/2009, a las 23:23, IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR escribió:

> Natalia, et alia:
>
>    Thanks for getting back to me, and copying me on these emails.
>
>    Follows hereupon, my responses inter alia.
>
>
> On 10/14/09 3:49 PM, "Natalia Portillo" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Give me a day for the testings.
>
> Certainly! AIX 5.3 and 6.1 are truly the OS variants I am interested  
> in, and
> I'd be preferential to booting up in a manner that provisions the  
> greatest
> level of processor emulation at the highest hardware level functional.
As much as I can, as the QEMU's Official OS Support List maintainer :D

> > Anyway the problem it had long ago was not about the hardware, just
> > the OHW's OF implementation not interpreting the PReP boot partition.
>
> I do not know what "OHW" or "OF" means, are they both referring to the
> OpenBIOS?
PReP, CHRP, PowerMacintosh, Pegasos, AmigaONE, and almost all PowerPC  
computers used OpenFirmware (OF for friends) as the "bios".
OHW is OpenHackWare, was the OF implementation used by QEMU long ago,  
created by Jocelyn.
OpenBIOS is just another, more complete, OF implementation, the one  
currently in use by QEMU.

> > The CD I tested has a MBR partition table indicating a bootable
> > partition (the PReP-way) but the firmware simply did not found a
> > bootable device.
>
> The CD I tested (as far as I know, I'll check if you tell me how) is  
> an
> original IBM CD that would be booted on a 520 or the like type of  
> server.
Maybe I have the same dump, could you send me via private email a SHA1  
checksum of yours?

> If you do get this to work, please do post in the most verbose and  
> explicit
> manner the steps you took, as I am brand new to using QEMU.
>
>
> Thanks for all your time and consideration.
>
>
> Stuart
>
> > El 14/10/2009, a las 22:31, Hollis Blanchard escribió:
> >
> > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Natalia Portillo
> > > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > AIX can INDEED boot from PowerPC.
> > > >
> > > > Versions and so it depends.
> > > >
> > > > AIX can also boot from PReP hardware, and PReP is emulated under
> > > > QEMU.
> > > >
> > > > If you need testing I have AIX from 4.1 to 6.1.
> > >
> > > OK, could you test the latest qemu source with AIX 5.3 and 6.1? If
> > > you're successful, could you post your boot options?
> > >
> > > -Hollis
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Very Respectfully,
>
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