Re: [Qemu-devel] Can't open boot device for Solaris 8

2016-09-06 Thread Phillip Shin
Turns out the iso was the issue, once I found a SPARC iso, it booted/installed without issue. Thanks! On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Phillip Shin wrote: > I still get the same prom_panic with that command. I reconfigured with > --target-list=i386-softmmu and remade QEMU before tryi

Re: [Qemu-devel] Can't open boot device for Solaris 8

2016-08-30 Thread Phillip Shin
I still get the same prom_panic with that command. I reconfigured with --target-list=i386-softmmu and remade QEMU before trying the command. Thoughts?

Re: [Qemu-devel] Can't open boot device for Solaris 8

2016-08-30 Thread Phillip Shin
Thanks that starts a new window and boots! Then it reaches: SunOS Secondary Boot Version 3.00 prom_panic: Could not mount filesystem. Entering boot debugger: [131085]: Thoughts on this issue? I've looked at a similar thread from 2004 but it didn't help much.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Can't open boot device for Solaris 8

2016-08-30 Thread Phillip Shin
Thanks for replying! I configured with target-list=x86_64-softmmu and called make again. Then I tried this command: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -bios ss5.bin -nographic -L . -hda 36GB.disk -m 256 -M SS-5 -cdrom sol-8-u7-install-ia.iso qemu-system-x86_64: -bios ss5.bin: unsupported machine type Use -machin

[Qemu-devel] Can't open boot device for Solaris 8

2016-08-29 Thread Phillip Shin
Hi, I've been trying to install a Solaris 8 image using QEMU on a CentOS machine this past week using mainly Artyom's blog ( http://tyom.blogspot.com/2009/12/solaris-under-qemu-how-to.html) and neozeed's blog ( http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2010/10/03/formatting-disks-for-solaris/#co