Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> writes: > (1) For ppc32, gentoo hans quickly, the last line is this: > > Memory: 247644k/262144k avalable (5652k kernel code, 14500l reserved, 212k data, 137k bss, 260k ini > > This last line is long, it is truncated to the right. Hrm. Please send me the vmlinux.gz file in a private mail. Perhaps it is easier to download the image I used: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/ppc/current-iso/install-powerpc-minimal-20101017.iso
(This machine has a 10 Gbps Internet connection, but perhaps you have better connectivity to another Gentoo mirror.) > (2) For ppc64, the last lines are: > > Calling quiesce ... > returning from prom_init > > (Debian and Gentoo hangs at the same positions.) This probably means that the bootloader chose to boot a ppc32 kernel on ppc64. Please try booting vmlinux and initrd directly using -kernel and -initrd. Hmm. For Gentoo, I explicitly tried the "G5" and "ppc32" boot alternatives. For Debian, I used "install". Now I tried the better choice "install64", which comes a bit longer. It fails in a new way: it ignores keyboard input, This happens after the kernel has booted, and the installer has started. I tried this, e.g.: qemu-system-ppc64 -vnc :1 -hda new.img -cdrom /jails/shell/u/GNU/Debian/iso/debian-506-powerpc-CD-1.iso -boot d -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:59,model=e1000 -net tap,ifname=tap3,script=no -m 512 (I also tried without -vnc, and with less memory. Same, same.) > king$ qemu --version > QEMU emulator version 0.13.0, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard Please make sure to also try the latest git version. I doubt it helps on the ppc side, but sparc might benefit from it. I think this will have to wait. -- Torbjörn
