OK this is dump of qemu-img info for the qcow2 disk image I am using. It looks Ok…but still I get the same “Not a bootable ELF image” image.
Can someone please point to any other image that will work or tell me what’s wrong with this image.
address@hidden:~:159#qemu-img info debian_squeeze_powerpc_standard.qcow2
image: debian_squeeze_powerpc_standard.qcow2
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 25G (26843545600 bytes)
disk size: 281M
cluster_size: 65536
Format specific information:
compat: 1.1
lazy refcounts: false
address@hidden:~:160#which qemu-system-ppc
/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ppc
address@hidden:~:161#/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ppc --version
QEMU emulator version 1.7.50, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
address@hidden:~:162#/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ppc -hda debian_squeeze_powerpc_standard.qcow2 -serial stdio
VNC server running on `::1:5900'
>> =============================================================
>> OpenBIOS 1.1 [Oct 2 2013 22:57]
>> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2
>> CPUs: 1
>> Memory: 128M
>> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>> CPU type PowerPC,750
>> Not a bootable ELF image
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From: Nitin Srivastava
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 12:02 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: standard test image not booting with qemu-system-ppc
Hi ,
I downloaded the latest qemu source from git and compiled it on my centos 6.5 machine.
According to the following e-mail from this mailing list I tried the following
Test case: download the squeeze standard image from
and run with
qemu-system-ppc -hda debian_squeeze_powerpc_standard.qcow2
but I get following error
VNC server running on `::1:5900'
>> =============================================================
>> OpenBIOS 1.1 [Oct 2 2013 22:57]
>> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2
>> CPUs: 1
>> Memory: 128M
>> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>> CPU type PowerPC,750
>> Not a bootable ELF image
qemu: terminating on signal 2
address@hidden:~:117#
also please note that my qemu-system-ppc is latest, as its built from source.
address@hidden:~:117#qemu-system-ppc -version
QEMU emulator version 1.7.50, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
address@hidden:~:118#
Please help.
Regds.
Nitin