Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 14:19:33 -0400 From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA4 fails to boot on POWER9/KVM Message-ID: <c6fb42ef-fba3-9a79-1356-759900cb24d0@blastwave.org> In-Reply-To: <0a970b75-160a-e40e-b360-1b73a753f701@freebsd.org> References: <5d84652d-8b54-19f9-1396-e7c9acbe6c03@neo-zeon.de> <CAHSQbTAgow0yESJo-oV83Oq9ePzwoOL_viUxNirYmeOXy_2zmg@mail.gmail.com> <a9aed989-9ea0-4e34-0619-7d54ddc28ea6@neo-zeon.de> <5f44c6d6-7eec-6732-6fef-123e7e0d3292@freebsd.org> <E610CDE0-7BEE-4E79-BB15-9FB023690BA5@macmic.franken.de> <ff249f1e-9c2d-013a-1a37-cc79a261fbac@freebsd.org> <cd6efedd-627c-1758-1b01-cd1547180e8b@neo-zeon.de> <2b4455f4-37f6-5645-dcba-2cc41c845ae8@neo-zeon.de> <0a970b75-160a-e40e-b360-1b73a753f701@freebsd.org>
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On 10/10/2018 11:59 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > The first part of this (all the errors about "NOT FOUND") I just fixed > and the fixes will be included in BETA1 and subsequent builds. The > remaining issue is that virtio SCSI is not part of the standard kernel > on PPC (there are some endian and DMA bugs), so you will need to use an > alternative storage backend. The default storage backend (VSCSI) is > fine, as are more PC-ish things like AHCI emulation. > > This command line will work and is otherwise equivalent to the below: > qemu-system-ppc64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -nographic -vga none -cdrom > FreeBSD-12.0-ALPHA9-powerpc-powerpc64-20181009-r339271-disc1.iso > /var/lib/libvirt/images/freebsd-ppc.qcow2 -mem-prealloc -mem-path > /dev/hugepages -smp 2 > > -Nathan Has anyone tried this on a PowerMac G5 yet ? Dennis
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