I just accidentially came across this bug report ... I did not find
debian-31r8-powerpc-binary-1.iso anymore in the internet, but debian-
31r8-powerpc-netinst.iso is still available, so I gave it a try: There
is no output of grub in the VGA window with this ISO, but if I simply
press return when the screen turns black, the kernel seems to boot and
work fine with the latest version of QEMU (2.6.0). So I think this
problem has likely been fixed and we can close this bug now.
** Changed in: qemu
Status: New => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/833658
Title:
Qemu ppc does not boot Debian 3.1r8
Status in QEMU:
Fix Released
Bug description:
I tried booting the official image debian-31r8-powerpc-binary-1.iso with the
following commandline:
qemu-system-ppc -boot d -cdrom ../debian-31r8-powerpc-binary-1.iso -hda
hd.img. The booting process stops with CPU at 100%. I can choose to boot
"install-2.4" or "install" which both hangs with the last output being "Loading
ramdisk". I have also tried using the git-tree which crashes qemu with the
message "qemu/memory.c:1183: memory_region_add_subregion_common: Assertion
`!subregion->parent' failed." before even showing anything.
Additionally, qemu 0.14.1 shows the same behaviour but qemu 0.13 and
0.12.5 can boot beyond the "Loading ramdisk" message but stops
immediatly afterwards with a messed up console window (letters are
pushed into another, which makes them barely readable) when using
"install". Also "install-2.4" boots with 0.13 and 0.12.5 beyond the
"Loading ramdisk" message but stops with the last message being now
"returning 0x01400000 from prom_init".
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