On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 16:54 +0200, Karel Gardas wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > >> But, for your information, AIX boot has been tested and does not boot. > >> The reason is it use a specific boot file format (with AIXM magic at > >> start) and I did not spent any time to discover where is stored the code > >> offset (but I know what the offset value is). > >> As reported in OHW README, I did test AIX 4.3.3 & 5.1. > >> > > > > Would booting the bootfile.exe from the CD directly via -kernel be a > > future option to work around the AIXM magic? The exe looks to be a > > standard ELF file for powerpc.
Yes, you should be able to do this. It may fail if the ELF is to be called with special parameters set up by a first stage bootloader. > That would be cool, since this will also help me with booting > RTEMS/PowerPC apps (which are also standard multi-boot elfs) > Unfortunately, I've not been able to come with any patch for this yet... You should be able to boot an ELF image using -kernel option. Or it has been broken once again... I have to check this point. -- Jocelyn Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Never organized _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
