On 28/12/13 17:30, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
Also Artyom's blog is quite out of date with respect to OpenBIOS - OpenBIOS
has been able to boot my test Solaris 8 image for over 2 years now so you
may find that you can get by without the proprietary Sun ROM (and avoid
having to manually type a boot command into OBP every time you restart).
Point taken. Added lists of Solaris kernels known to boot and not to
boot with OpenBIOS.
Feel free to submit yours if it's not in the lists yet. ;-)
Hi Artyom,
Thanks for this - it looks great! Some minor things I've noticed:
1) In the OpenBIOS section, the 2 SunOS 5.9 releases are listed together
on the same line (missing line break?)
2) You don't need to use -prom-env 'auto-boot?=false' when booting from
a cdrom with OpenBIOS. Just use '-boot d' to make sure that QEMU tells
OpenBIOS that it wants to boot from cdrom or '-boot c' to boot from a
disk image using the FW_CFG interface.
(Perhaps the bug here is that if no boot device is explicitly specified
then QEMU should try and set a sensible default based upon the current
device tree? But adding an explicit '-boot x' to the QEMU command line
should always work, regardless of how the boot ordering code changes in
future)
Also you can add my Solaris 8 test image to your OpenBIOS compatibility
list which displays as "SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-09
32-bit" on boot (or is the -29 suffix a typing error?)
ATB,
Mark.
