Brian D. Horn wrote: > >>> And those reasons are...? It might be useful to know the >>> deficiencies of Qemu for evaluation >>> purposes. >> >> qemu-system-ppc lacks (or lacked) support for booting from a floppy. >> > The above is not a barrier. We could easily boot from an IDE disk > instead.
Okay, but then you would certainly depend on underlying firmware that understands the filesystem on which VOF would be stored. Featuring something like ufsboot. Or is VOF usually stored in raw format? Whether on hdd(-image) or maybe even on a CD(-image): Of course, one could put it anywhere. > We were > also looking at a ram disk image. Not sure about how to do this, except one could find a way to get Grub`s ppc port booted inside qemu or PearPC or where-/what- ever. >> > No, we have not tried it ourselves. It was recently suggested (by > others) that we ought > to try it. I just looked at this at any level for the first time > yesterday. If others, such as yourself, > know things that will tell us that it is a fool hardy task and we > would be wasting our time, then > I would like to know that and why so we don't waste the time. Aha, I see. Okay, that makes sense. I do agree, in that it would just be too nice. Next week I can re-invest some research into this. But pls. do not expect too much. Thanks, Martin
