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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 652293] [NEW] Linux for SPARC does not work


From: Blue Swirl
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 652293] [NEW] Linux for SPARC does not work
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:28:40 +0000

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Roman Franchuk
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> I tried to use debian for sparc. I downloaded Debain Lenny 5.06 sparc netinst 
> (file name: debian-506-sparc-netinst.iso). I tried to boot it by command:
> qemu-system-sparc -cdrom debian-506-sparc-netinst.iso -boot d
> It printed some messages to screen. The last 2 was:
> entry point is 0x4000
> Jumping to entry point...
> I tried to run it as sparc64 (debian.org sais that debian runs fine on 
> sparc32, but i tried):
> qemu-system-sparc64 -cdrom debian-506-sparc-netinst.iso -boot d
> It loaded SILO. When i press enter or print kernel commandline, it starts 
> booting, writes, that it loaded kernel 2.6.26, initrd, and after it i get 
> black screen. System does not boot.
>
> I went to google and found that debian lenny can not run on sparc32 (it uses 
> sparc64 kernel, but 32-bit userspace). People recomended me to try debian 4. 
> I downloaded file debian-40r8-sparc-netinst.iso. But i got the same bug with 
> qemu-system-sparc.

It looks like the version of OpenBIOS in Debian sqeeze is buggy. For
example this version seems to work:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/plain/pc-bios/openbios-sparc32

> With sparc64 i did not get black screen.It finished by string:
> Remapping the kernel... done.

Sparc64 is not finished yet.



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