Re: [Qemu-devel] Boot from disk problem

[Artyom Tarasenko]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Ignacio Geli <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> El 01/12/11 07:29, Artyom Tarasenko escribió:
>
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 18:24, Ignacio Geli <address@hidden> wrote:
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> El 25/11/11 13:01, Andreas Färber escribió:
>
> Hi,
>
> Am 25.11.2011 16:23, schrieb Ignacio Geli:
>
> Im trying to run a solaris 2.5.1 vm acording the instructions of i found
> in this blog:
> http://tyom.blogspot.com/2009/12/solaris-under-qemu-how-to.html#uds-search-results
>
> I'm not sure if Artyom has submitted all his patches to QEMU yet.
>
> This stuff is in. Definitely worked at 0.13 - 0.14 times, but I never
> had time to check 0.15+.
>
> compile my qemu with:
> git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu.git
> cd qemu
> ./configure --target-list=sparc-softmmu
> make
> (version 0.13.50)
>
> That 2009 blog is outdated: QEMU now lives in
> git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git
> and should be at 0.15.93 (1.0-rc3). Compare http://qemu.org for details.
>
> CC'ed sparc maintainer and Artyom.
>
> Andreas
>
> Andesas tks for the info.
> upgrading to 0.15.1 did not solve the issue.
>
> Adding some info:
>
> QEMU emulator version 0.15.1, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
> Linux ws2132 2.6.32-5-openvz-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 3 05:12:50 UTC 2011 x86_64 
> GNU/Linux
> Debian squeeze
>
>
> Regards!
>
> Ive downloaded the ss5.bin bios (sparc station 5)) I have the solaris
> disk and i can do the installation but can't get the disk to boot.
>
> I can boot from the cd, mount and check the /etc/system file it has the
> "set scsi_options=0x58" option i set to make it work, still not working:
>
> Here is the output:
>
> /ok boot disk0:d
> Boot device: 
> /iommu/sbus/address@hidden,8400000/address@hidden,8800000/address@hidden,0:d  
> File
> and args:
> SunOS Release 5.5.1 Version Generic [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
> Copyright (c) 1983-1996, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> WARNING:
> /address@hidden,10000000/address@hidden,10001000/address@hidden,8400000/address@hidden,8800000/address@hidden,0
> (sd1):
>     corrupt label - bad geometry
>
>     Label says 1310720 blocks, Drive says 883120 blocks
> Cannot mount root on
> /address@hidden,10000000/address@hidden,10001000/address@hidden,8400000/address@hidden,8800000/address@hidden,0:d
>  fstype
> ufs
> panic: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
> rebooting...
> Resetting ... /
>
> maybe the disk is wrong
> ive try several disk one following these instructions:
> 1) qemu-img create -f qcow2 file.qcow2 12G
> 2) Add -drive file=file.qcow2,unit=3 to your qemu startup
> 3) Boot single user
> 4) echo
> 'disk_type="QEMU12.0G":ctlr=SCSI:ncyl=49152:acyl=0:pcyl=49152:nhead=16:nsect=32:rpm=7200'
>
> /etc/format.dat
>
> I'd guess these geometry parameters are not correct for your 12G disk.
> It's strange though that the installer kernel sees different geometry
> from the normal boot kernel.
>
> 5) echo
> 'partition="QEMU12.0G":disk="QEMU12.0G":ctlr=SCSI:2=0,25165824:0=0,20971520:6=40960,4194304'
>
> /etc/format.dat
>
> These could also be wrong, but I have no idea what the numbers mean.
>
> In order not to mess with all this numbers I used a pre-defined 1.3G
> disk in the Solaris format utility and created it with dd:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=$1  bs=10k count=133756
>
>
> Otherwise, Ignacio, are you sure that disk0 is your root FS disk and
> not something else? Can you post your qemu command line?
>
> qemu-system-sparc -M SS-5 -startdate "2009-12-13" -bios /root/ss5.bin 
> -nographic -hda /root/imagenes/solaris.disk -hdb /root/solaris_2.5.1_1197.iso
>

Looking at your command, I don't think it complains about
solaris.disk. I think it complains about the iso, which is normal
given that we make iso image pretend it's a hard drive.

But why do you boot from the slice d of disk0 ? Please try

boot disk0 -v

and post here a complete log afterwards.

> Thks for your help Artyom. I'll try with a dd, and solaris format utility and 
> I'll let u know
>
> Ignacio
>
> --
>
>
>         Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
>
>         Ignacio Geli
>         Implementación y Soporte
>
>



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Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/