Re: Issues with NetBSD 8.1 macppc

On 07/10/2019 08:46, Julien Savard wrote:

> Well it seems 8.0 has no problems. It boots, shows strange symbols too but screen
> switch black and then normal console shows up.
> FYI I started 8.0 this way :
> 
>     qemu-system-ppc -boot d -M mac99,via=pmu -m 1024 -hda
>     /srv/disk-images/mxqc1-test.img -cdrom /mnt/NetBSD-8.0-macppc.iso -net
>     nic,model=e1000,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:fa -net bridge,br=br0 -prom-env
>     'auto-boot?=true' -prom-env 'boot-device=cd:,ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc' -vga std &
> 
> 
> And 8.1 this way :
> 
>     qemu-system-ppc -boot d -M mac99,via=pmu -m 1024 -hda
>     /srv/disk-images/mxqc1-test.img -cdrom /mnt/NetBSD-8.1-macppc.iso -net
>     nic,model=e1000,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:fa -net bridge,br=br0 -prom-env
>     'auto-boot?=true' -prom-env 'boot-device=cd:,ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc' -vga std &
> 
> As you can see, except from the iso there no difference. 
> Forgot to mention on last mail but both iso generate this error while booting :
> 
>     font-adr: interpret: exception -13 caught
>     call-method 'usb-kdb-ihandles': exception -21
> 
> 
> Possibly due to "via=pmu" but I don't think it related to the "strange symbols issue".

Hmmm I would certainly expect 8.1 to boot in the same way as 8.0. A couple of
questions here:

1) Which version of QEMU are you running?

2) Can you see any error messages booting with -nographic (this redirects the screen
device to a serial TTY which is output to the console)?

The USB call-method error means that NetBSD is trying to execute some Forth in
OpenBIOS which is failing, perhaps because it uses words which are only present in
Apple OF.


ATB,

Mark.