On 25/07/2020 18:16, Romain Dolbeau wrote: > Le sam. 25 juil. 2020 à 11:55, Mark Cave-Ayland > <mark.cave-ayl...@ilande.co.uk> a écrit : >> First thing to ask is does your newly created vm-ppc HD image boot when you >> change >> the "-boot" parameter to "-boot c"? > > Nope, couldn't get it to boot with just 'c' or the parameters I listed > (... after removing the '-cdrom XXX' parameter, otherwise it boots the > installer).
Okay so it seems like OpenBIOS can't locate the bootloader on its own. Does it work if you try adding the following to the QEMU command line: -prom-env 'boot-device=hd:,\\BootX' or: -prom-env 'boot-device=hd:,\BootX' ATB, Mark.