Re: [Qemu-ppc] [OpenBIOS] Apple's BootX

[Programmingkid]

> On Jan 27, 2018, at 7:33 AM, BALATON Zoltan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2018, Jd Lyons via OpenBIOS wrote:
>> Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on Jan 22 2018 11:12
>> 
>> 0 > boot hd:10,\ppc\bootx >> switching to new context:
>> 
>> 
>> Mac OS X Loader
>> depthbytes isn't unique.
>> rowbytes isn't unique.
>> FILL-RECTANGLE isn't unique.
>> Opening partition 
>> [/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden:10]...
>> HFSInitPartition: 2fc5b254
>> Loading HFS+ file: [\\com.apple.Boot.plist] from 2fc5b254.
>> setting boot-uuid to: CF9C6A60-A576-362A-A46B-5CF31493B8F0
>> non-root file owner detected: 501
>> non-root file owner detected: 501
>> non-root file owner detected: 501
>> non-root file owner detected: 501
>> non-root file owner detected: 501
>> non-root file owner detected: 501
>> non-root file owner detected: 501
>> non-root file owner detected: 501
>> non-root file owner detected: 501
>> Reading HFS+ file: [\\mach_kernel] from 2fc5b254.
>> setting boot-uuid to: CF9C6A60-A576-362A-A46B-5CF31493B8F0
>> non-root file owner detected: 501
>> Loading HFS+ file: 
>> [\System\Library\Caches\com.apple.kernelcaches\kernelcache.D57A14F7] from 
>> 2fc5b254.
>> 
>> Call Kernel!
>> FailToBoot: 6
>> ENTER

Excellent job with capturing Bootx's output. 

> 
> So maybe you're looking for the problem at the wrong place when debugging 
> BootX. It says it has transferred execution to the loaded kernel and it's the 
> kernel which failed. Does the kernel version you're trying to boot support 
> this CPU type at all?

Back when I would build the Mach kernel I would place a bunch of printf 
statements to see what it is doing. This is an easy way to debug the kernel. 
What version of Mac OS X are you currently trying to boot? If you want help 
with building and running a custom kernel just let me know.