Not able to install yaboot into debian live image

[Erlon Cruz]

hi,

Try askying that on QEMU maling list. It might be a QEMU issue.

Kind Regards,
Erlon

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Matias Kreder <mkreder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having some troubles to get a live cd image to boot into qemu
> ppc64 emulator with IBM OpenFirmware. I will also need to use this
> image on a IBM pServer.
>
> I used the Debian live build tool to create the .iso image. They just
> provide best effort support for its tool and they will just accept
> patches.
>
> The options that they use to generate the .iso are:
>
>         yaboot)
>                 GENISOIMAGE_OPTIONS="${GENISOIMAGE_OPTIONS} -r --iso-level
> 2
> --netatalk -hfs -probe -map"
>                 GENISOIMAGE_OPTIONS="${GENISOIMAGE_OPTIONS}
> binary/yaboot/hfs.map
> --chrp-boot -part -no-desktop"
>                 GENISOIMAGE_OPTIONS="${GENISOIMAGE_OPTIONS} -hfs-bless
> binary/yaboot
> -hfs-volid Debian/Live_powerpc"
>                 GENISOIMAGE_EXCLUDE="yaboot/hfs.map"
>                 ;;
>
> According to the source here:
>
> http://live.debian.net/gitweb/?p=live-build.git;a=blob_plain;f=helpers/lh_binary_iso;hb=428f4d972f38a4774107d5ea934774fca591f77b
>
> When I try to boot the .iso I just get "E3404: Not a booteable
> device!" I'm executing: "qemu-system-ppc64 -m 1024 -M pseries -cdrom
> binary.iso -boot d"
>
> This is my CD structure:
>
> root at debianppc:/build/binary# ls -R
> .:
> live  md5sum.txt  yaboot
>
> ./live:
> filesystem.packages         initrd.img-2.6.32-5-powerpc
> vmlinux-2.6.32-5-powerpc64
> filesystem.packages-remove  initrd.img-2.6.32-5-powerpc64
> filesystem.squashfs         vmlinux-2.6.32-5-powerpc
>
> ./yaboot:
> boot.msg  hfs.map  ofboot.b  pegasos  yaboot  yaboot.conf
>
> I'm stuck here, any help will be really appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Matias
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