Bug#580999: yaboot: Debian fails to install over serial in qemu

[Aurélien GÉRÔME]

reopen 580999
reassign 580999 qemu
found 580999 0.12.5+dfsg-3
found 580999 0.13.0+dfsg-2
retitle 580999 qemu-system-ppc: Debian fails to install over serial
tags 580999 confirmed
thanks

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 02:09:46PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
 I am using debian-504-powerpc-netinst.iso.

I am using debian-507-powerpc-netinst.iso.

 Since I am doing netinst I need a stable installer, testing and sid
 installers notoriously break due to being out of sync with the packages
 archive.
 
 I probably used a different version of qemu back then but now I have
 qemu-system   0.13.0+dfsg-2

OK, I am using 0.12.5+dfsg-3/amd64 from current Sid.
Right now, Debian contains:
% ssh merkel.debian.org dak ls qemu
  qemu | 0.9.1-10lenny1 |stable | source, amd64, i386, powerpc, 
sparc
  qemu | 0.12.5+dfsg-3 |   testing | source, amd64, armel, i386, 
kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, sparc
  qemu | 0.12.5+dfsg-3 |  unstable | source, amd64, armel, i386, 
kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, sparc
  qemu | 0.13.0+dfsg-2 |  experimental | source, amd64, armel, i386, 
kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, sparc
So you are using the one from experimental.

 The installer boots with
 
 qemu-system-ppc -cdrom /media/sdf/debian-504-powerpc-netinst.iso -boot d

Thanks, I forgot the -boot d part and now surprisingly yes it works...
W00t!  Yaboot on OldWorld!  I am guessing it is a magical wonder from
OpenBIOS. :]

 but with
 
 qemu-system-ppc -cdrom /media/sdf/debian-504-powerpc-netinst.iso -boot d
 -nographic
 
 I do not get to the installer.

Indeed.

 I think this was actually a qemu issue because previously I would not
 get tot the yaboot prompt at all but now I get to loading the kernel.

OpenBIOS is probably the culprit too.

I am reopening this bug and reassigning it to QEmu, just to let the
QEmu maintainers team know about it.  I am sure Aurélien Jarno has
some clue. :]

Cheers,
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Bug#580999: yaboot: Debian fails to install over serial in qemu

[Michal Suchanek hramr...@centrum.cz]

Package: yaboot
Severity: normal


$ qemu-system-ppc -m 1024 -net nic,model=e1000 -net
tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no ppc.img -cdrom
debian-504-powerpc-netinst.iso  -boot d -nographic

Writes the OFW banner on the standard output and does nothing,

Running the installed system with -boot c gives a quik prompt.

As I understand it the install CD uses yaboot and I could not find
anything about configuring yaboot for use with serial port in the docs
so I guess yaboot cannot do it or should do it automagically and it is
broken.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (110, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash



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