On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:45 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > 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.
You can try to replace the Open Hack'Ware image by an IBM BIOS. I tried this long ago and it did not work, but a lot of things have been improved in Qemu since then. But maybe we need a hardware emulation closer to some IBM machine, not a generic PREP, for this to work. > 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 -- J. Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Never organized _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
