On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayl...@ilande.co.uk> wrote: > 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 Also Artyom's blog is quite out of date with respect to OpenBIOS - 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?)
Hi Mark, Done. Thanks for the feedback! Artyom -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko linux/sparc and solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu
