Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone got qemu-system-ppc{,64} to boot anything?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 01:18:01PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> [...]
> >So has _anyone_ got an example of qemu-system-ppc{,64} booting an OS
> >that they can share with us?
> 
> qemu-system-ppc boots fine the lenny debian install CD:
> 
> http://gensho.acc.umu.se/debian-cd/5.0.1/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-501-powerpc-netinst.iso
> 
> (commit abc0754527e30acf278765f66d2157b6c75dc549)
> 
> command line:
> 
> ./ppc-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc -L ./pc-bios/ -cdrom 
> debian-501-powerpc-netinst.iso

Excellent, and using the same technique I also managed to boot my own
appliance.  The problem, it turned out, was the serial console doesn't
work, ie:

  -append "console=ttyS0" -serial stdio

produces no output.  I'm still looking into this issue.

Rich.

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