I wonder if this can be related with the problem I found some time ago
while installing SLES.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-12/msg00261.html

Regards,
Erlon

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:27 AM, David Gibson
<da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au>wrote:

> Currently, for the pseries machine the device tree supplied by qemu to SLOF
> and from there to the guest does not include a 'compatible property' at the
> root level.  Usually that works fine, since in this case the compatible
> property doesn't really give any information not already found in the
> 'device_type' or 'model' properties.
>
> However, the lack of 'compatible' confuses the bootloader install in the
> SLES11 SP2 and SLES11 SP3 installers.  This patch therefore adds a token
> 'compatible' property to work around that.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> ---
>  hw/spapr.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/hw/spapr.c b/hw/spapr.c
> index e88a27a..fadf70f 100644
> --- a/hw/spapr.c
> +++ b/hw/spapr.c
> @@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ static void *spapr_create_fdt_skel(const char
> *cpu_model,
>      _FDT((fdt_begin_node(fdt, "")));
>      _FDT((fdt_property_string(fdt, "device_type", "chrp")));
>      _FDT((fdt_property_string(fdt, "model", "IBM pSeries (emulated by
> qemu)")));
> +    _FDT((fdt_property_string(fdt, "compatible", "qemu,pseries")));
>
>      _FDT((fdt_property_cell(fdt, "#address-cells", 0x2)));
>      _FDT((fdt_property_cell(fdt, "#size-cells", 0x2)));
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
>
>

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