Re: [Qemu-ppc] Problem booting qemu-system-ppc with cpu e500XX and machine mpc8544ds

[Scott Wood]

On 06/30/2012 03:43 AM, Badrinath Sriman wrote:
> Alex, Thanks a lot for your immediate reply. Couple of points:

> a) I have been using -M option only before mpc8544ds, as I am also
> using the -m option for specifying the memory. It was a typo error on
> my part in my mail. Sorry about the same.

> b) From your reply, I think that the key thing as to why the guest
> window does not pop up seems to be that the -M mpc8544ds option
> mandatorily expects a -kernel and -initrd option, whereas I have been
> trying to boot it through the usual -cdrom <bootable.iso> -boot d
> option, as my understanding of qemu was that -kernel option was
> supported only for linux as guest OS.

How would you boot that cdrom on real hardware?  Does U-Boot support
booting from a cdrom?

-Scott