On 7/27/07, David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if it's supposed to be able to run yaboot, but it doesn't > seem to. I've tried running the netboot images (which are just a zImage > containing kernel+initrd) and I think I had problems with that too -- > but at least that was a qemu thing not firmware. It may be fixed now.
When I tried to boot Fedora 6 a few months ago, qemu was able to run yaboot and start the install CD, using the mac99 system model. Unfortunately it required some hacking on OpenHackware to get to that point, and I never got the emulated IDE controller to work. Something in the interrupt controller emulation was apparently broken sometime in 2006 and never fixed. I would be glad to participate in a group effort to get Fedora booting on qemu. Reasonable PowerPC server hardware is getting harder and harder to find (and I don't consider $4000 for a dual-core IBM box reasonable). --Ed
