Re: FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA4 fails to boot on POWER9/KVM
Dennis Clarke <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 10/10/2018 11:59 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > The first part of this (all the errors about "NOT FOUND") I just fixed > and the fixes will be included in BETA1 and subsequent builds. The > remaining issue is that virtio SCSI is not part of the standard kernel > on PPC (there are some endian and DMA bugs), so you will need to use an > alternative storage backend. The default storage backend (VSCSI) is > fine, as are more PC-ish things like AHCI emulation. > > This command line will work and is otherwise equivalent to the below: > qemu-system-ppc64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -nographic -vga none -cdrom > FreeBSD-12.0-ALPHA9-powerpc-powerpc64-20181009-r339271-disc1.iso > /var/lib/libvirt/images/freebsd-ppc.qcow2 -mem-prealloc -mem-path > /dev/hugepages -smp 2 > > -Nathan Has anyone tried this on a PowerMac G5 yet ? Dennis _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"