Re: [Qemu-devel] Solaris9 issues on today CVS sources.

[Fabrice Bellard]

Karel Gardas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been able to use Solaris9 on qemu 0.5.5, but I have tried to update
> to the latest (today) sources and found that the kernel does not boot
> anymore. It is loaded, but then when it touch disc it prints:
>
> WARNING: /address@hidden,0/pci-ide/@1,1/address@hidden/address@hidden,0 (Disk 
> 0):
>         Error for command 'read sector' Error Level: Informational
>         Sense Key: aborted command
>         Vendor 'Gen-ATA ' error code: 0x3
> WARNING: /address@hidden,0/pci-ide/@1,1/address@hidden (ata0):
>         timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0
>
> and this is repeated several times, till kernel boots again.
>
> BTW: Reading changelog for 0.6.1, I've found this:
>
>   - New block device layer
>
> does this mean that the old mkcow images are not longer supported?

They should work except if there is a bug. Try with a raw image. 
Otherwise it is a recent change in the IDE driver.

Fabrice.