Re: [Qemu-ppc] Mac OS X no longer boots from cd

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 20/03/15 02:38, Programmingkid wrote:

> On Mar 19, 2015, at 11:29 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
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>> On 19.03.15 15:50, Programmingkid wrote:
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>>> On Mar 19, 2015, at 3:18 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
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>>>>> Am 19.03.2015 um 02:46 schrieb Programmingkid <address@hidden>:
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>>>>> After just pulled for the March 18 patches, I noticed that my Mac OS 10.2 
>>>>> cd no longer boots.
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>>>> Is this new? If so, can you bisect it?
>>>>
>>>> Alex
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>>>>> The odd thing is, it only fails to boot if there is not hard drive set. 
>>>>> When I add a hard drive, the boot cd continues booting to the installer. 
>>>>> Without the hard drive, and the boot stops half way and starts saying 
>>>>> "still waiting for boot device". 
>>>>>
>>>>> This is the command I used when booting fails:
>>>>> qemu-system-ppc -cdrom Jaguar.iso -m 512 -boot d -M g3beige -prom-env 
>>>>> boot-args=-v
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>>> This does appear to be new. Are you able to reproduce the issue?
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>> I gave up on testing CD-ROM emulation on Mac machines since it's known
>> bad upstream. Mark has a few RFC patches to fix tit up though, so feel
>> free to give them a try as well ;)
> 
> Ok, I will look at them.
> 
> Mark, can I see some of your CD-ROM patches?

Sure, I rebased them fairly recently and posted them both on-list and to
github:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg01699.html
https://github.com/mcayland/qemu/tree/macio


ATB,

Mark.