[Bug 1639394] Re: Unable to boot Solaris 8/9 x86 under Fedora 24

[Madgemade]

I also have this problem. On both QEMU 5.2.0 and QEMU 3.1. The situation is 
still the same as the original report.
For Solaris 8 the following configuration causes an error when the installer 
attempts to boot:
-m 256M -display gtk -monitor stdio -hda Sol8.qcow2 -cdrom sol8_x86_install.ISO 
-boot d -machine pc
The error is given as "prom_panic: Could not mount filesystem", the same as 
reported originally. It does this even when "hda" is not specified.
I can get into the installer by using SCSI devices instead (as alluded to 
originally) but the SCSI devices are not detected correctly by the installer 
and it cannot find the boot media.
A slightly different problem occurs with Solaris 7. This configuration (only 
CDROM) allows the installer to run and it detects the CDROM media correctly: -m 
256M -display gtk -monitor stdio -boot a -fda sol-7_boot.img -cdrom sol-7.iso
But when a "hda" hard disk device is introduced the installer does not load, 
instead hanging on the first stage (where Solaris 8 installer gives the error).
To ensure the ISO was not corrupted or similar I used VirtualBox which works as 
expected.

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Title:
  Unable to boot Solaris 8/9 x86 under Fedora 24

Status in QEMU:
  Expired

Bug description:
  qemu-system-x86_64 -version
  QEMU emulator version 2.6.2 (qemu-2.6.2-4.fc24), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 
Fabrice Bellard

  Try several ways without success, I think it was a regression because problem 
seems to be related with ide fixed on 0.6.0:
  - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
  - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)

  Solaris 10/11 works without a problem, also booting with "scsi" will
  circumvent initial problem, but later found problems related with
  "scsi" cdrom boot and also will not found the "ide" disk device.

  
  qemu-system-i386 -m 712 -drive file=/dev/Virtual_hdd/beryllium0,format=raw 
-cdrom /repo/Isos/sol-9_905_x86.iso

  SunOS Secondary Boot version 3.00

  prom_panic: Could not mount filesystem.
  Entering boot debugger:
  [136419]

  
  Regards,
  \\CA,

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