Hmm.. strange. I did make a new disk went into the setup, then format the disk. After that, i rebooted and start that installation. But, it seems still there is no disk detected.
Media [1]: 1 Reading disc for Solaris Operating Environment... The system is being initialized, please wait... | No Disks found. Check to make sure disks are cabled and powered up. Press OK to Exit. <Press ENTER to continue/ -# format -e Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t0d0 <drive type unknown> /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@0,0 Specify disk (enter its number): 0 AVAILABLE DRIVE TYPES: 0. Auto configure 1. Quantum ProDrive 80S 2. Quantum ProDrive 105S 3. CDC Wren IV 94171-344 4. SUN0104 5. SUN0207 6. SUN0327 7. SUN0340 8. SUN0424 9. SUN0535 10. SUN0669 11. SUN1.0G 12. SUN1.05 13. SUN1.3G 14. SUN2.1G 15. SUN2.9G 16. Zip 100 17. Zip 250 18. other Specify disk type (enter its number): 18 Enter number of data cylinders: 24620 Enter number of alternate cylinders[2]: Enter number of physical cylinders[24622]: Enter number of heads: 27 Enter physical number of heads[default]: 107 Enter number of data sectors/track: 107 Enter number of physical sectors/track[default]: Enter rpm of drive[3600]: Enter format time[default]: Enter cylinder skew[default]: Enter track skew[default]: Enter tracks per zone[default]: Enter alternate tracks[default]: Enter alternate sectors[default]: Enter cache control[default]: Enter prefetch threshold[default]: Enter minimum prefetch[default]: Enter maximum prefetch[default]: Enter disk type name (remember quotes): Sparc9 selecting c0t0d0 [disk formatted] FORMAT MENU: disk - select a disk type - select (define) a disk type partition - select (define) a partition table current - describe the current disk format - format and analyze the disk repair - repair a defective sector label - write label to the disk analyze - surface analysis defect - defect list management backup - search for backup labels verify - read and display labels save - save new disk/partition definitions inquiry - show vendor, product and revision scsi - independent SCSI mode selects cache - enable, disable or query SCSI disk cache volname - set 8-character volume name !<cmd> - execute <cmd>, then return quit format> label [0] SMI Label [1] EFI Label Specify Label type[0]: 1 Ready to label disk, continue?y format> q #reboot Jun 28 23:37:16 rpcbind: rpcbind terminating on signal. syncing file systems... done rebooting... rebooting () Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 32 Probing SBus slot 0 offset 0 Probing SBus slot 1 offset 0 Probing SBus slot 2 offset 0 Probing SBus slot 3 offset 0 Probing SBus slot 4 offset 0 Probing SBus slot 5 offset 0 Invalid FCode start byte CPUs: 1 x FMI,MB86904 UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on Apr 18 2016 08:19 Type 'help' for detailed information Trying cdrom:d... Not a bootable ELF image Loading a.out image... Loaded 7680 bytes entry point is 0x4000 bootpath: /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@2,0:d Jumping to entry point 00004000 for type 00000005... switching to new context: SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_118558-34 32-bit Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Configuring /dev and /devices NOTICE: Couldn't set value (../../sun/io/audio/sada/drv/audiocs/audio_4231.c, Line #1759 0x00 0x88) audio may not work correctly until it is stopped and restarted Please specify the media from which you will install the Solaris Operating Environment. Media: 1. CD/DVD 2. Network File System 3. HTTP (Flash archive only) 4. FTP (Flash archive only) 5. Local Tape (Flash archive only) Media [1]: 1 Reading disc for Solaris Operating Environment... The system is being initialized, please wait... -^[[6|^R ^[[/ No Disks found. Check to make sure disks are cabled and powered up. Press OK to Exit. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1588328 Title: Qemu 2.6 Solaris 9 Sparc Segmentation Fault Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Hi, I tried the following command to boot Solaris 9 sparc: qemu-system-sparc -nographic -boot d -hda ./Spark9.disk -m 256 -cdrom sol-9-905hw-ga-sparc-dvd.iso -serial telnet:0.0.0.0:3000,server It seems there are a few Segmentation Faults, one from the starting of the boot. Another at the beginning of the commandline installation. Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 32 Probing SBus slot 0 offset 0 Probing SBus slot 1 offset 0 Probing SBus slot 2 offset 0 Probing SBus slot 3 offset 0 Probing SBus slot 4 offset 0 Probing SBus slot 5 offset 0 Invalid FCode start byte CPUs: 1 x FMI,MB86904 UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on Apr 18 2016 08:19 Type 'help' for detailed information Trying cdrom:d... Not a bootable ELF image Loading a.out image... Loaded 7680 bytes entry point is 0x4000 bootpath: /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@2,0:d Jumping to entry point 00004000 for type 00000005... switching to new context: SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_118558-34 32-bit Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. WARNING: /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@0,0 (sd0): Corrupt label; wrong magic number Segmentation Fault Configuring /dev and /devices NOTICE: Couldn't set value (../../sun/io/audio/sada/drv/audiocs/audio_4231.c, Line #1759 0x00 0x88) audio may not work correctly until it is stopped and restarted Segmentation Fault Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information. Skipping interface le0 Searching for configuration file(s)... Search complete. .... What type of terminal are you using? 1) ANSI Standard CRT 2) DEC VT52 3) DEC VT100 4) Heathkit 19 5) Lear Siegler ADM31 6) PC Console 7) Sun Command Tool 8) Sun Workstation 9) Televideo 910 10) Televideo 925 11) Wyse Model 50 12) X Terminal Emulator (xterms) 13) CDE Terminal Emulator (dtterm) 14) Other Type the number of your choice and press Return: 3 syslog service starting. savecore: no dump device configured Running in command line mode /sbin/disk0_install[109]: 143 Segmentation Fault /sbin/run_install[130]: 155 Segmentation Fault To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1588328/+subscriptions