any pointers on how to qemu-system-ppc a powerpc kernel on 11.10?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Fri Nov 25 11:53:35 UTC 2011


On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 08:25:18AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Using this, I've been able to debug problems with Ubuntu powerpc images
> like this (obviously -cpu and -M details will be board-specific):
> 
>   qemu-system-ppc -cpu G4 -M mac99 -bios /usr/share/openbios/openbios-ppc -cdrom .iso -hda foo.img -boot order=d

Incidentally, I had cause to do this again myself recently, and while it
works fine on 11.10, something is broken in 12.04 and I just get a blank
screen in the emulator.  I'm running it in an 11.10 chroot for now.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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