PReP currently broken (Was Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting AIX / First try w/QEMU)

[Natalia Portillo]

As of today, qemu-system-ppc -M prep inmediately quits saying "isa irq  
13 already assigned"

El 14/10/2009, a las 14:40, IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR escribió:

> Lauren,
>
> Please be cognizant of the fact that yesterday was the first time I  
> downloaded, compiled, and ever tried QEMU, so I apologize for the  
> "ID-10T" questions.
>
> BUG 1:
>
> When you say that booting AIX 6.1 impels the requisite of emulating  
> a "CHRP with at least a POWER4"", are you saying QEMU cannot do  
> this, or I need to assert different command line arguments?
>
> What requisites would booting AIX 5.3 impel?
>
> My goal would be to try to have access to both via an emulated  
> environment, if possible.
>
> If the OpenBIOS will not work, what BIOS would work?
>
>
> BUG 2:
>
> How do I get the OpenBIOS updates and integrate them into  
> recompiling QEMU, or can I just somehow get a compiled update of  
> OpenBIOS and drop it in the correct QEMU directory?
>
> I am not too familiar with SVN or its command structure either.
>
>
> V/R,
>
> Stuart
>
>
> Quoting "Laurent Vivier" <address@hidden>:
>
> > > 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
> > > address@hidden qemu]#
> >
> > To boot AIX6.1, you must emulate a CHRP with at least a POWER4.
> > Moreover, AIX6.1 needs the hypervisor support in OpenFirmware  
> > (which is not the case of OpenBIOS).
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > This should be corrected in OpenBIOS HEAD SVN repository.
> >
> > > > > *** 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
> >
> > Regards,
> > Laurent
> > --
> > --------------------- address@hidden  ---------------------
> > "Tout ce qui est impossible reste à accomplir"    Jules Verne
> > "Things are only impossible until they're not" Jean-Luc Picard
>
>
>
> --
> IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR, N3GWG (Extra), MROP
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