Hmnn. Looks like I needed qemu-system-ppc64. Seems to be working with that with RHEL 6 dvd. So nevermind. :) Sorry for the noise.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Gary Gatling <gsgat...@ncsu.edu> wrote: > Has anyone been able to emulate a PPC system to run RHEL 6 in qemu? I had > a build for epel 6 that was failing on ppc64. (It does work on epel 7 ppc > however) > > I was hoping to figure out what is wrong by taking a closer look via ppc > emulation and running rpmbuild within it. > > But when I try to install it on a fedora 21 laptop I get > > qemu-system-ppc -boot d -cdrom rhel-server-6.6-ppc64-dvd.iso -m 1024 -hda > ppcdisk.img > > http://i.imgur.com/qDm2m0t.png > > Maybe some other distro would work better for this then fedora 21? Or is > there something I have to type at openboot prompt to get the installer > started? > > I can run > > qemu-system-ppc -boot d -cdrom rhel-server-6.6-ppc64-dvd.iso -m 1024 -hda > ppcdisk.img -prom-env 'auto-boot?=false' > > and then I can do a "dir" on the dvd iso. I just can't seem to boot it. > > I was able to boot a ubuntu ppc mini.iso. Just not RHEL 6 ppc iso. > > Thanks for any ideas anyone has. >
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