Bugzilla – Bug 1152830
cannot boot a bare ppc64 kernel
Last modified: 2019-10-02 22:53:55 UTC
:~> qemu-system-ppc64 -vga none -nographic -kernel Downloads/linux -initrd Downloads/initrd SLOF ********************************************************************** QEMU Starting Build Date = Mar 3 2017 13:29:19 FW Version = git-66d250ef0fd06bb8 Press "s" to enter Open Firmware. Populating /vdevice methods Populating /vdevice/vty@71000000 Populating /vdevice/nvram@71000001 Populating /vdevice/l-lan@71000002 Populating /vdevice/v-scsi@71000003 SCSI: Looking for devices 8200000000000000 CD-ROM : "QEMU QEMU CD-ROM 2.5+" Populating /pci@800000020000000 No NVRAM common partition, re-initializing... Scanning USB Using default console: /vdevice/vty@71000000 ted RAM kernel at 400000 (1dc4798 bytes) C08FF Welcome to Open Firmware Copyright (c) 2004, 2011 IBM Corporation All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the BSD License available at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php Booting from memory... OF stdout device is: /vdevice/vty@71000000 Preparing to boot Linux version 4.12.14-115-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.8.5 (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP Wed Sep 25 15:07:55 UTC 2019 (21718fd) Detected machine type: 0000000000000101 command line: Max number of cores passed to firmware: 2048 (NR_CPUS = 2048) Calling ibm,client-architecture-support...qemu-system-ppc64: error creating device tree: (fdt_begin_node(fdt_skel, "")): FDT_ERR_BADSTATE
had some outdated qemu binary.