On Mar 20, 2015, at 4:35 PM, John Snow wrote: > > > On 03/20/2015 04:08 PM, Programmingkid wrote: >> >> On Mar 20, 2015, at 4:03 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> >>> On 20/03/15 02:38, Programmingkid wrote: >>> >>>> On Mar 19, 2015, at 11:29 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 19.03.15 15:50, Programmingkid wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mar 19, 2015, at 3:18 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Am 19.03.2015 um 02:46 schrieb Programmingkid >>>>>>>> <programmingk...@gmail.com>: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> After just pulled for the March 18 patches, I noticed that my Mac OS >>>>>>>> 10.2 cd no longer boots. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is this new? If so, can you bisect it? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Alex >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The odd thing is, it only fails to boot if there is not hard drive >>>>>>>> set. When I add a hard drive, the boot cd continues booting to the >>>>>>>> installer. Without the hard drive, and the boot stops half way and >>>>>>>> starts saying "still waiting for boot device". >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> This is the command I used when booting fails: >>>>>>>> qemu-system-ppc -cdrom Jaguar.iso -m 512 -boot d -M g3beige -prom-env >>>>>>>> boot-args=-v >>>>>> >>>>>> This does appear to be new. Are you able to reproduce the issue? >>>>> >>>>> I gave up on testing CD-ROM emulation on Mac machines since it's known >>>>> bad upstream. Mark has a few RFC patches to fix tit up though, so feel >>>>> free to give them a try as well ;) >>>> >>>> Ok, I will look at them. >>>> >>>> Mark, can I see some of your CD-ROM patches? >>> >>> Sure, I rebased them fairly recently and posted them both on-list and to >>> github: >>> >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg01699.html >>> https://github.com/mcayland/qemu/tree/macio >>> >>> >>> ATB, >>> >>> Mark. >> >> There has been a lot of changes to QEMU lately, so I'm not sure how well my >> tests work. The March 20th patch list broke QEMU, so I used the March 18th >> one to test. >> >> I have tried both the patches from the URL above at the same time. They did >> allow me to boot my Mac OS 10.0 cd much further than it had before. The >> patches also fixed a problem that prevented me from booting a cd without >> having a hard drive attached. >> >> reviewed-by: John Arbuckle <programmingk...@gmail.com> >> >> > > If you feel like the CD rom boot failure is "new", I'd be very interested to > know how recent that failure is. > > The macio RFC might help, but if you have the cycles to do a bisect upstream, > I would appreciate that. > > (And I will get to reviewing that RFC next week.) > > Thanks, > --js
I'm not sure how recent the failure is. I do know this issue is present in QEMU 2.2.0. Just to note, I am using Mac OS 10.2 boot cd for my tests.
