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

[IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR]

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.

> 
> 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?

> 
> 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.

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
> 




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