Re: [Qemu-devel] can't boot debian wheezy sparc in qemu

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 14/07/14 19:19, Dennis Luehring wrote:

> i've followed the avices on Artyom Tarasenko's blog to install debian
> wheezy sparc on qemu
> but qemu won't boot the graphical installation
>
> with -nographic the debian default installation seems to work
>
> is this a known bug?
>
> these are my installation steps
>
> fresh ubuntu 14.04 x64 (3.13.0-30-generic) installation
>
> apt-get install gcc-4.8 --> 4.8.2-19ubuntu1
> apt-get install g++ --> 4:4.8.2-1ubuntu6
>
> apt-get install git
> apt-get install libglib2.0-dev --> 2.40.0-2
> apt-get install libfdt-dev --> 1.4.0+dfsg-1
>
> apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev --> 1.2.15-8ubuntu1.1
> apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev --> 2.24.23-0ubuntu1.1
> apt-get install libvte-dev --> 1:0.28.2-5ubuntu1
>
> -->current debian weezy sparc from 2014/07/14, ~10:00
> wget
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.6.0/sparc/iso-dvd/debian-7.6.0-sparc-DVD-1.iso
>
>
> -->get qemu git revision c15a34eda0f270888a0e4676997317e1bd7894b8, head
> at 2014/07/14, ~15:25
>
> git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
> cd qemu
> ./configure --target-list=sparc64-softmmu
> make
>
> ./qemu/qemu-img create my_sparc_hda 4G
>
> qemu-system-sparc64 -hda my_sparc_hda -cdrom
> debian-7.6.0-sparc-DVD-1.iso -boot d

At the moment my work is focused on getting the basic system emulation 
up and running, so I haven't spent much time looking at the graphics 
side at all.

I have noticed that the kernel falls back to the dummy console during 
boot, so perhaps it is unable to probe the VGA device. If you append 
vga=ask to the command line, are you able to find a framebuffer choice 
that works?


ATB,

Mark.