On Thursday 25 May 2006 14:16, Ben Taylor wrote: > The question came up a little while back about getting Solaris (Sparc) to > boot in qemu under qemu-system-sparc. > > I did a little work yesterday to find out that the boot process in > hw/sun4m.c is really kind of hard wired for a linux boot. If there is no > kernel or initrd, it drops right through. In reality, if those variables > aren't set, and the boot device is cdrom, shouldn't there be some code to > load the boot block in slice 3 of the cd/dvd? At worst case, it seems that > we could probably extract the boot block and force qemu to load that with > the hope of getting a solaris/sparc on qemu started, since slice 1 of the > cd/dvd is the kernel and root directory structure. Slice 0 is the install > media. > > Ideas? I'm neck deep in the pool and have no idea where to start.
Real sun SPARC systems use an OpenFirmware (aka OpenBoot) based system. http://www.openbios.org/ indicates there is a qemu/sparc port in progress. Paul _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel