Re: [Qemu-devel] Boot from disk problem

[Ignacio Geli]

El 25/11/11 13:01, Andreas Färber escribió: Hi, Am 25.11.2011 16:23, schrieb Ignacio Geli: Im trying to run a solaris 2.5.1 vm acording the instructions of i found in this blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/2009/12/solaris-under-qemu-how-to.html#uds-search-results compile my qemu with: git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu.git cd qemu ./configure --target-list=sparc-softmmu make (version 0.13.50) That 2009 blog is outdated: QEMU now lives in git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git and should be at 0.15.93 (1.0-rc3). Compare http://qemu.org for details. CC'ed sparc maintainer and Artyom. Andreas Andesas tks for the info. upgrading to 0.15.1 did not solve the issue. Adding some info: QEMU emulator version 0.15.1, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard Linux ws2132 2.6.32-5-openvz-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 3 05:12:50 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux Debian squeeze Regards! Ive downloaded the ss5.bin bios (sparc station 5)) I have the solaris disk and i can do the installation but can't get the disk to boot. I can boot from the cd, mount and check the /etc/system file it has the "set scsi_options=0x58" option i set to make it work, still not working: Here is the output: /ok boot disk0:d Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@0,0:d File and args: SunOS Release 5.5.1 Version Generic [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0] Copyright (c) 1983-1996, Sun Microsystems, Inc. WARNING: /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@1,0 (sd1): corrupt label - bad geometry Label says 1310720 blocks, Drive says 883120 blocks Cannot mount root on /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@0,0:d fstype ufs panic: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root rebooting... Resetting ... / maybe the disk is wrong ive try several disk one following these instructions: 1) qemu-img create -f qcow2 file.qcow2 12G 2) Add -drive file=file.qcow2,unit=3 to your qemu startup 3) Boot single user 4) echo 'disk_type="QEMU12.0G":ctlr=SCSI:ncyl=49152:acyl=0:pcyl=49152:nhead=16:nsect=32:rpm=7200' /etc/format.dat 5) echo 'partition="QEMU12.0G":disk="QEMU12.0G":ctlr=SCSI:2=0,25165824:0=0,20971520:6=40960,4194304' /etc/format.dat 6) format -d c0t3d0 -t 'QEMU12.0G' then label, y, and quit 7) newfs /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 followed by y another downloaded from: http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Solaris_2.4_on_Qemu_SPARC any help will be welcome -- ITECNIS SRL <http:/www.itecnis.com> Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication Ignacio Geli Implementación y Soporte --         Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication         Ignacio Geli         Implementación y Soporte