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

[IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR]

Natalia,


On 10/15/09 5:26 PM, "Natalia Portillo" <address@hidden> wrote:

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

Are you saying you fixed or this is a bug or what? I am confused by your
email.


V/R,

Stuart


> 
> 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
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
> 




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