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Re: [Qemu-devel] Can't open boot device for Solaris 8


From: Artyom Tarasenko
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Can't open boot device for Solaris 8
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:14:30 +0200

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Phillip Shin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to install a Solaris 8 image using QEMU on a CentOS
> machine this past week using mainly Artyom's blog (
> http://tyom.blogspot.com/2009/12/solaris-under-qemu-how-to.html) and
> neozeed's blog (
> http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2010/10/03/formatting-disks-for-solaris/#comments),
> but others here and there as well.
> I've tried 2 different ISOs, from https://archive.org/details/sol-8-u7-ia
> and https://winworldpc.com/product/sun-solaris/8 as I don't have access to
> an official image. I got ss5.bin from Artyom's blog. I've cloned and
> compiled the latest QEMU from git as per Artyom's blog's instruction.
>
> Everything seems to run fine up until I'm at the ok prompt and try to run
> boot disk2:d -vs I get the following message:
> Boot device: 
> /iommu/sbus/address@hidden,8400000/address@hidden,8800000/address@hidden,0:d  
> File and
> args: -vs
> Bad magic number in disk label
> Can't open disk label package
>
> Can't open boot device
>
> The following is the commands I used and the output the commands produced:
> $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 36GB.disk 36G
> Formatting '36GB.disk', fmt=qcow2 size=38654705664 encryption=off
> cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16
> $ qemu-system-sparc -bios ss5.bin -nographic -L . -hda 36GB.disk -m 256 -M
> SS-5 -cdrom sol-8-u7-install-ia.iso


Looks like you are trying to install Solaris for Intel (ia)  machines
on a sun4m machine. For Intel Solaris you'd rather need
qemu-system-x86_64.

Artyom

-- 
Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

SPARC and PPC PReP under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu



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