Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 28/12/13 17:30, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:

> > Also Artyom's blog is quite out of date with respect to OpenBIOS - OpenBIOS
> > has been able to boot my test Solaris 8 image for over 2 years now so you
> > may find that you can get by without the proprietary Sun ROM (and avoid
> > having to manually type a boot command into OBP every time you restart).
>
> Point taken. Added lists of Solaris kernels known to boot and not to
> boot with OpenBIOS.
> Feel free to submit yours if it's not in the lists yet. ;-)

Hi Artyom,

Thanks for this - it looks great! Some minor things I've noticed:

1) In the OpenBIOS section, the 2 SunOS 5.9 releases are listed together 
on the same line (missing line break?)

2) You don't need to use -prom-env 'auto-boot?=false' when booting from 
a cdrom with OpenBIOS. Just use '-boot d' to make sure that QEMU tells 
OpenBIOS that it wants to boot from cdrom or '-boot c' to boot from a 
disk image using the FW_CFG interface.

(Perhaps the bug here is that if no boot device is explicitly specified 
then QEMU should try and set a sensible default based upon the current 
device tree? But adding an explicit '-boot x' to the QEMU command line 
should always work, regardless of how the boot ordering code changes in 
future)

Also you can add my Solaris 8 test image to your OpenBIOS compatibility 
list which displays as "SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-09 
32-bit" on boot (or is the -29 suffix a typing error?)


ATB,

Mark.