Not able to install yaboot into debian live image

[Matias Kreder]

Hi,

I'm asking here because I was able to boot on the same computer with
the debian netinstaller cds without issues. I don't think it is a QEMU
related issue.

Regards
Matias

El 21/02/2013 23:15, "Erlon Cruz" <sombrafam at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> 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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