On 18/05/16 10:02, David Griffith wrote: > I've been trying to boot an old debian ISO under qemu sparc, but all I > can get is a black screen unless I use the -nographic option. I start > with this: > > qemu-img create -f qed sparcdisk.img 2G > > Then this: > > qemu-system-sparc -bios ss5.bin -vga cg3 -g 1152x900 -hda sparcdisk.img > -cdrom debian-40r9-sparc-netinst.iso > > My host system is Debian 8.
Which version of QEMU is supplied with Debian 8? On a recent QEMU you should find that OpenBIOS will boot all OSs on SS-5 machines, so no need to provide an external ROM image. The following should work for you and give a 1024x768 framebuffer: qemu-system-sparc -vga cg3 -hda sparcdisk.img -cdrom debian-40r9-sparc-netinst.iso -boot d Otherwise I've just tried the following locally and it works fine here on QEMU 2.6: qemu-system-sparc -vga cg3 -cdrom debian-31r1a-sparc-businesscard.iso -bios ss5.bin Before each QEMU release I tend to boot debian-31r1a and debian-40r4a ISOs through to userspace to make sure there are no regressions so I would expect this to work. ATB, Mark.
