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Comment on QEMU PPC and slackware – part 1 by micah

micah — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:05:23 +0000

I only have qemu working on 1 distro… the bad one… “Windows 7″ — I think it’s version specific issues. (even older binaries on win7 doesn’t work for emulating NewWorld macs. And I can’t specify the exact processor model either (7455) so I use the generic G4)

PS – most of my PCs are used as servers which don’t need xwindows/xorg so I haven’t ran qemu on them yet. (I’d like to try the VNC Option but it doesn’t work on my windows box.) — And I’ve spend the last week installing Gentoo on my Real PPC (32bit) and on an old PowerEdge 6450 Server. I got them working minutes ago… =D

PPS – I wonder how qemu-ppc runs on a real ppc? =D

PPPS – I’ve installed qemu on my Slackware 13.1 (32bit) box and it installed fine – I didn’t check the version though.

Comment on QEMU PPC and slackware – part 1 by sacarde

sacarde — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:44:08 +0000

I try in some ways… but dont works

I try qemu-ppc works only with: suse-11.1, gentoo, YDL

other ppc that I try: kubuntu, debian-netinst, archlinux dont work

…
and you which distro have tried that works ?

Comment on QEMU PPC and slackware – part 1 by micah

micah — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:24:09 +0000

It looks like you need to specify the loop type in the append line.. (squashfs perhaps?)

I don’t know the syntax either… I would try that – it looks like it’s mounting the ramdisk, you just can’t read it…

Comment on QEMU PPC and slackware – part 1 by sacarde

sacarde — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:15:53 +0000

…
ERROR: cannot find booted cdrom device, cannot continue…
kernel panic…
…

Comment on QEMU PPC and slackware – part 1 by micah

micah — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:05:11 +0000

I can’t see the screenshot atm… (DNS issue…) – what is the kernel panic on?

Comment on QEMU PPC and slackware – part 1 by sacarde

sacarde — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:48:49 +0000

oh great
gentoo start OK in G4 newworld

I try to do like this on archlinuxppc iso
- I mount iso in loop, extract kernel and initrd
- I run:
qemu-system-ppc -m 500 -hda /home/sacarde/hd.img -cdrom /home/sacarde/2010-07-23_archppc-ftp.iso -boot d -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0 -kernel /home/sacarde/vmlinux -initrd /home/sacarde/archlive.img -append “cdroot root=/dev/ram0 video=ofonly lang=en locale=en_US.UTF-8 usbdelay=5 ramdisk_size=75%” -cpu G4 -M mac99

kernel panic: http://sacarde.interfree.it/err-boot-arch.png

thanks for your patience

Comment on QEMU PPC and slackware – part 1 by micah

micah — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:04:11 +0000

Depends on the OS…

On Windows [any]: WinRAR, WinImage will let you
On Linux [any]: mount -o loop disk1.iso /home/user/mynewdir
On Mac [10.x]: Double click and it mounts it

The files are ./boot/apple, ./boot/apple.igz, and ./image.squashfs

Comment on QEMU PPC and slackware – part 1 by sacarde

sacarde — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:46:12 +0000

I have gentoo-2007-ppc iso

how can I extract kernel and initrd from that iso ppc ?

thanks

Comment on QEMU PPC and slackware – part 1 by micah

micah — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:58:17 +0000

Here is the gentoo command line:
-kernel linuxapple -initrd linuxapple.igz -append "cdroot root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc loop=image.squashfs looptype=squashfs console=tty0 video=ofonly"

It specifies squashfs. I’d try that… (This works with the install-ppc-universal-2007.0.iso (gentoo))