[Qemu-devel] [Bug 652293] [NEW] Linux for SPARC does not work

[Roman Franchuk]

Public bug reported:

I tried to use debian for sparc. I downloaded Debain Lenny 5.06 sparc netinst 
(file name: debian-506-sparc-netinst.iso). I tried to boot it by command:
qemu-system-sparc -cdrom debian-506-sparc-netinst.iso -boot d
It printed some messages to screen. The last 2 was:
entry point is 0x4000
Jumping to entry point...
I tried to run it as sparc64 (debian.org sais that debian runs fine on sparc32, 
but i tried):
qemu-system-sparc64 -cdrom debian-506-sparc-netinst.iso -boot d
It loaded SILO. When i press enter or print kernel commandline, it starts 
booting, writes, that it loaded kernel 2.6.26, initrd, and after it i get black 
screen. System does not boot.

I went to google and found that debian lenny can not run on sparc32 (it uses 
sparc64 kernel, but 32-bit userspace). People recomended me to try debian 4. I 
downloaded file debian-40r8-sparc-netinst.iso. But i got the same bug with 
qemu-system-sparc. With sparc64 i did not get black screen.It finished by 
string:
Remapping the kernel... done.

What is it?

QEMU 0.12.5, from debian repositories. i386 and x86-64 emulation works fine.
My computer: Celeron 1.8 Ghz, DDR 1.25 Gb, NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX.
As host i use debian squeeze (kernel updated to 2.6.35).

** Affects: qemu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Linux for SPARC does not work
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Bug description:
I tried to use debian for sparc. I downloaded Debain Lenny 5.06 sparc netinst 
(file name: debian-506-sparc-netinst.iso). I tried to boot it by command:
qemu-system-sparc -cdrom debian-506-sparc-netinst.iso -boot d
It printed some messages to screen. The last 2 was:
entry point is 0x4000
Jumping to entry point...
I tried to run it as sparc64 (debian.org sais that debian runs fine on sparc32, 
but i tried):
qemu-system-sparc64 -cdrom debian-506-sparc-netinst.iso -boot d
It loaded SILO. When i press enter or print kernel commandline, it starts 
booting, writes, that it loaded kernel 2.6.26, initrd, and after it i get black 
screen. System does not boot.

I went to google and found that debian lenny can not run on sparc32 (it uses 
sparc64 kernel, but 32-bit userspace). People recomended me to try debian 4. I 
downloaded file debian-40r8-sparc-netinst.iso. But i got the same bug with 
qemu-system-sparc. With sparc64 i did not get black screen.It finished by 
string:
Remapping the kernel... done.

What is it?

QEMU 0.12.5, from debian repositories. i386 and x86-64 emulation works fine.
My computer: Celeron 1.8 Ghz, DDR 1.25 Gb, NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX.
As host i use debian squeeze (kernel updated to 2.6.35).