OpenSolaris requires sparcv9, so it's unlikely that the OS will boot using qemu-system-sparc. However, if you can get the kernel to load and tell you that you need 64-bit, that's probably progress.
jonathan On 7/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As promised, I tried today to launch Solaris 9 (CD version for Sparc, downloaded from http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/9/) on fresh CVS version checked out today. I built it using the manual on this page: http://maiux.com/qemu-windows-binaries-compile-howto but with sparc-softmmu switch in configure's options. The build went well and I tried to start the image the following way: qemu-system-sparc -L . -m 256 -hda hda.img -cdrom sol-9-905hw-install-ga-sparc.iso -boot d -no-acpi -g 800x600 -localltime (with different variations of three last switches). The result: [sparc] Booting file 'cdrom' with parameters '' Not a bootable ELF image Not a Linux kernel image Not a bootable a.out image Not a bootable ELF image Not a Linux kernel image Loading a.out image... Loaded 7680 bytes entry point is 0x4000 Jumping to entry point... Unhandled Exception 0x00000007 PC = 0xffd0a55c NPC = 0xffd09374 Stopping execution So this is my report, I hope it can be of some use. I'll try to boot sparc version of OpenSolaris soon and I'l let you know how it went. Regards, Grzegorz Galezowski
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