On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faer...@web.de> wrote: > Am 18.12.2010 um 17:33 schrieb Blue Swirl: > >> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faer...@web.de> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Except for some fs/iso9660/ issues, ppc64 guests are booting for me with >>> the >>> last five OpenBIOS patches posted. >> >> What are the issues? > > It still hangs after the "Trying" line, as reported in the "ppc64 boot > issues" thread. > The exact cause is as of yet unknown. > >>> You can find them together with the config change to use fs/grubfs/ here: >>> >>> git://repo.or.cz/openbios/afaerber.git ppc64-boot >>> >>> Please test your favorite ppc64 kernels and images with >>> obj-ppc64/openbios-qemu.elf! >> >> Passes my simple tests. The only problem is that building forthstrap >> on a 64 bit host fails. > > Right. Should we hack switch-arch as an interim solution to make it work?
I'd prefer a real fix, unless the problem persists.