After checking strings it looks like bootfile.exe is a bootloader that pounds openfirmware rather extensively.
Hmm. Is there a way to load a real ibm firmware into qemu? Since I have access to machines it might be an interesting experiment. Brian On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:30 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:49 +0200, J. Mayer wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:32 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > > All of the websites that are referred to in the docs and source are > > > missing. Is there another place to get it? I'm tinkering with the idea > > > to try to boot aix on qemu. > > > > There was a broken link. > > I just fixed it. > > > > Thanks. > > > But, for your information, AIX boot has been tested and does not boot. > > The reason is it use a specific boot file format (with AIXM magic at > > start) and I did not spent any time to discover where is stored the code > > offset (but I know what the offset value is). > > As reported in OHW README, I did test AIX 4.3.3 & 5.1. > > > > Would booting the bootfile.exe from the CD directly via -kernel be a > future option to work around the AIXM magic? The exe looks to be a > standard ELF file for powerpc. It might be interesting to see what that > file actually does (i.e. if its the kernel or a boot loader) > > Brian > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
