Re: [Qemu-ppc] qemu-system-ppc unable to boot past "returning from prom_init"

[Alexander Graf]

On 21.12.2011, at 15:14, Prasad Deshpande wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   I am trying to run qemu-system-ppc with a stripped down kernel ppc image 
> based on 2.6.29. qemu never goes beyond 
> 
> Calling quiesce ...
> returning from prom_init
> 
>  I haven't seen a solution to this posted on qemu page or in the qemu-ppc 
> mailing list archive. I found a bug for this but it seems to have expired. 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/544330
> 
>  Any help is appreciated.
> 
> thanks
> -prasad
> 
> Here are the details:
> 
> qemu: version 1.0
> Linux: kernel based on 2.6.9
> Command line: qemu-system-ppc -hda linuxppc-disk.qcow2 -vnc localhost:1 
> -kernel LINUX/vmlinux -initrd LINUX/rImage.gz -append console=ttyS0

Please try -append console=ttyPZ0

Also make sure that your kernel is a ppc32 kernel, not a ppc64 one.

Alex